OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Economics is 8. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	58
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	49
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	47
ACES membership form	47
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	43
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	41
Editorial Board	38
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	37
Citizen empowerment through land reform	37
Changes to our editorial board	35
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	34
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	32
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	30
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	30
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	29
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	29
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	26
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	25
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	23
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	23
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	22
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	21
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	21
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	20
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	19

Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	19
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	18
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	17
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	17
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	17
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	16
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	16
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	16
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	15
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	15
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	15
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	14
Editorial Board	13
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	13
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	13
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	13
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	12
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	11
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	11
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	11
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	11
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	10
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	10
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	10
Special issue announcement	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	10
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	10
ACES membership form	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	8
Editorial Board	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8