OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Bank Economic Review is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	81
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	41
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	32
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	25
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	22
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	21
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	21
The Impact of a Maternity Support Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from India	21
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	20
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	19
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	15
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	14
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	14
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	12
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	11
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	11
Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya	9
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	9
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	9
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	8
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	8
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	8
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	7
Workfare Programs and Their Delivery System: Effectiveness of Construyendo Perú	7
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	7

Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	7
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	7
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	7
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	7
Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	7
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	7
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	6
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	6
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	6
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia	6
Heterogeneous Trade Effects of Pre-Shipment Inspections	6
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	6
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	6
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Child Poverty in Consumption	6
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	5
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	5
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	5
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	5
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	5
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	5
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Labor-Market Conditions	5
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	5
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	5
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity	5
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities	5