OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Economics is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	55
Citizen empowerment through land reform	51
Editorial Board	41
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	38
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	37
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	37
ACES membership form	37
Coups, regime transitions, and institutional consequences	33
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	32
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	32
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	30
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	29
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	28
Changes to our editorial board	27
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	26
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	25
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	23
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	23
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	22
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	22
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	22
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	21
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	19
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	19

Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	18
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	18
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	16
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	16
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	16
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	15
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	15
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	14
Touch thee not: Group conflict, caste power and untouchability in rural India	14
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	14
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	14
Editorial Board	14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	11
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	11
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	11
The unintended harms of infrastructure: Opium and road construction in Afghanistan	11
Special issue announcement	11
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	11
Voter turnout and intergenerational redistribution	11
ACES membership form	10
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	10
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk	9
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
Editorial Board	8
Gendered language and gendered violence	8
The effect of regulating political connections: Evidence from China's board of directors ban	8
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	7
The origins of political institutions and property rights	7
Current expenditure upswings in good times and public investment downswings in bad times? New evidence from developing countries	7
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	7
Editorial Board	7
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	7
The political transfer problem: How cross-border financial windfalls affect democracy and civil war	7
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7