Journal of Comparative Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Economics is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
ACES membership form104
Editorial Board84
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off80
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis67
Citizen empowerment through land reform55
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic52
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia49
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior47
Changes to our editorial board36
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China34
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-1933
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development33
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting29
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa28
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China27
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports26
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China24
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan24
Public events boost nationalist identity22
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises21
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements20
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions20
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles19
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics18
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises17
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–201417
Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence17
Political economy of real exchange rate levels17
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement16
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective16
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade15
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures14
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance14
Sequencing institutional development: The modernization hypothesis reconsidered14
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China14
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program14
Editorial Board14
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China13
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy13
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China13
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China12
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States12
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China12
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities12
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market12
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages12
Land reform and illegal adoption of children11
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development11
ACES membership form11
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects11
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods11
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital11
Gendered language and gendered violence10
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China10
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country10
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’10
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration10
Economic globalization and income shares10
On the optimal size of a joint savings association10
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey10
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China9
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal9
Editorial Board9
Misallocation across establishment gender9
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality9
The origins of political institutions and property rights9
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine9
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