OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Bank Economic Review is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	99
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	35
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	27
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	26
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	23
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	23
Social Transfer Multipliers in Developed and Emerging Countries: The Role of Hand-to-Mouth Consumers	22
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	21
The Impact of a Maternity Support Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from India	17
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	15
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	15
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	14
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	13
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	12
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	12
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	11
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	10
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	10
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	10
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	9
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	9
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922–2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj	9
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	9
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	8
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	8

Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	8
Workfare Programs and Their Delivery System: Effectiveness of Construyendo Perú	8
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	8
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	7
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	7
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia	7
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	7
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	7
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	7
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	7
Heterogeneous Trade Effects of Pre-Shipment Inspections	7
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	7
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	7
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	7
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	7
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Child Poverty in Consumption	7
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	7
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	6
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	6
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	6
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	6
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	5
The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana	5
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity	5
Formalizing Employment in Africa’s Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	5
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	5
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Labor-Market Conditions	5
Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa	5
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	5
For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities	5
Raising the Age of Marriage Entry and Child's Nutrition Intake? Evidence from the Reform of Ethiopia's Family Law	4
Chiefs, Courts, and Upholding Property Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone	4
Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid	4
The Gendered Impact of Digital Jobs Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique	4
The Cost of Sovereign Debt Defaults from Intermediate Imports	4
Unpacking Household Engel Curves	4
The Labor-Supply Consequences of Having a Child in China	4
Disclosure of Violence against Women and Girls in Senegal	3
Volume, Risk, Complexity: What Makes Development Finance Projects Succeed or Fail?	3
Groundwater, Climate Change, and Conflict: Empirical Evidence from Africa	3
The Social Protection Engel Curve	3
Making Data Count: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019	3
Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets	3
Firm Exit and Suspension in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Household Business Tax Census in Vietnam	3
Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia	3
Place-Based Policies and Migration: Evidence from India	3
The Importance of Being Early? Anticipatory Cash Transfers for Flood-Affected Households	3
From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar	3
Measuring Inequality Using Geospatial Data	3

Agricultural Productivity and Land Inequality: Evidence from the Philippines	3
Labor Market and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America amid COVID: The Role of Digital-Adoption Policies	2
Extreme Weather Events Impact Risk Tolerance and Time Preferences	2
Intimate Partner Violence, Reporting Bias, and Impact Evaluation: Evidence from Bangladesh	2
When Water Runs Out: Adaptation to Gradual Environmental Change in Indian Agriculture	2
Import Trade Liberalization and Structural Transformation: Evidence from China	2
The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh	2
How Does State Ownership Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms	2
On the Historical Roots of Gender Norms: Evidence from Matrilineal Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Mind the Gap: Schooling, Informality, and Fiscal Externalities in Nepal	2
C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico	2
The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran	2
The Distribution of Effort: Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting	2
From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo	2
Subsistence Farming and Factor Misallocation: Evidence from Ugandan Agriculture	2
New Economic Opportunities and Children’s Outcomes: Negative Effects of Artisanal Mines on Primary Education	2
Performance Pay Increases Dog Vaccinations to Reduce Human Rabies	2
Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala	2
Predicting Poverty	2
Polygyny and Drought Resilience in Village Economies: Evidence from Rural Mali	2
What Did They Say? Respondent Identity, Question Framing and the Measurement of Employment	2