OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Bank Economic Review is 3. 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
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	67
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	41
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	37
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	34
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	26
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	21
Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel?	20
The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions	17
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	16
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	15
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	13
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela	13
What Do Local Government Education Managers Do to Boost Learning Outcomes?	11
The Pass-Through of International Commodity Price Shocks to Producers’ Welfare: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Farmers	10
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	10
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	10
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	9
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	9
The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso	9
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	9
Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya	9
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	9
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	8
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	8
Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence	8

Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	7
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	7
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	7
Investment Treaties, Local Institutions and Policies in the Global Land Rush	6
Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	6
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	6
Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	5
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	5
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	4
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	4
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	4
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	4
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	3
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	3
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	3
The Macroeconomy After Tariffs	3
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	3
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	3
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	3
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	3
The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana	3
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	3
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	3
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	3