OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics of Education Review is 6. 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
The impact of pre-conference advice on academic talk effectiveness	50
State differences in pathways to school leadership and in achievement growth	49
Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status	32
Putting the “A” in AP: The effect of advanced placement state policies on student participation and performance	30
Well-being and technology: The effect of individual laptops in high school	26
University peers and career prospects: The impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes	26
Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England	24
Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills	24
Editorial Board	23
Unpacking the countercyclicality of post-secondary enrollment in the United States	22
Online teaching and gender bias	21
Home broadband and human capital formation	21
The role of individual institutions in creating effective and efficient transfer pathways from community college to bachelor’s degree	20
Public health insurance and special education enrollment	20
How cost framing affects college applications: evidence from a targeted information intervention	20
Foreign language skills and labor market outcomes: The case of English in Mexico	18
Comparing earnings outcome differences between all graduates and title IV graduates	18
The economics of encouragement: Can a simple email shape major choice?	18
School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education	17
Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan	17
Asthma management in schools: A tool for reducing absenteeism?	16
De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment	16
The value of in-person schooling during times of educational disruption: Impacts on students’ emotional problems and subjective well-being	16
Editorial Board	16
Liquidity for teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn	15

School attendance and child labor: Evidence from Mexico’s Full-Time School program	15
Good or bad? Understanding the effects over time of multigrading on child achievement	15
Formal vs. informal mathematics: Assessing numeracy with school and market items in a large sample of school-aged children in North-West Nigeria	15
Attending a school with heterogeneous peers: The effects of school detracking and its attenuation	15
The impacts of same and opposite gender alumni speakers on interest in economics	15
Trends in international assessments and outcomes in adulthood	14
The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from top 14 law schools	14
How do public schools respond to competition? Evidence from a charter school expansion	14
Sorting, peer effects and school effectiveness in private and public schools	13
Editorial Board	13
Scaling up: Advanced Placement Incentive Program	13
Editorial Board	13
Corrigendum to “Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru” [Economics of Education Review,	13
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: a new method with an application to school meals	12
The demand for data analytical skills by gender: Evidence from a field experiment	12
Short-run shock, long-run consequences? The impact of grandparental death on educational outcomes	12
First-generation graduates in OECD countries	12
Predicting teacher retention behavior: Ex ante prediction and ex post realization of a voluntary retirement incentive offer	12
Messaging teachers to boost student EdTech use	11
A multi-state, student-level analysis of the effects of the four-day school week on student achievement and growth	11
Editorial Board	11
College peer effects, gender, and STEM	11
The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs	11
Relative performance feedback and the effects of being above average — field experiment and replication	11
The timing of the unconditional cash transfers and human capital accumulation: experimental evidence from Malawi	11
The rising influence of family background on early school performance	11
Particulate pollution and learning	11
Teacher relationship skills and student learning	10
Labor market conditions and college graduation: Evidence from Brazil	10
The UK Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Consequences for the education and employment of older children	10
The attraction of magnet schools: Evidence from embedded lotteries in school assignment	10
Social identity and learning: Adult literacy program in India	10
Tracking when ranking matters	10
Central exams and adult skills: Evidence from PIAAC	10
Does the provision of universal free school meals improve school attendance?	10
Gender Bias in Evaluation Processes	9
Educational impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program in Mali	9
The impact of work-based versus school-based learning on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in vocational secondary education	9
Teacher quality and gender-differentiated long-term outcomes: Evidence from rural China	9
Does state-mandated financial education reduce high school graduation rates?	9
Editorial Board	9
Racial and gendered impacts of international students on domestic peers	9
Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data	8
The effects of financial aid on graduation and labor market outcomes: New evidence from matched education-labor data	8
Financial literacy calls the roll — The effectiveness of a financial education program in Italian schools	8
Skill-biased technological change and intergenerational education mobility	8
The educational experiences of Indian children during COVID-19	8
The effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native students. Evidence from Chile	8
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution?	8
Book matters: The effect of Cocky’s Reading Express on student performance	8

Escaping into a master's degree in times of crisis? Master's degree applications and enrolment over the business cycle	8
The impact of combining performance-management tools and training with diagnostic feedback in public schools: Experimental evidence from Argentina	8
The impact of need-based aid on higher education achievement: Evidence from Portugal	8
All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test scores	8
Closing the income-achievement gap? Experimental evidence from high-dosage tutoring in Dutch primary education	8
Boys left behind: The effects of summer camp and follow-up strategies on academic, personal, and social competencies	8
When Effective teacher training falls short in the classroom: Evidence from an experiment in primary schools	7
Do elite schools improve students performance? Evidence from Tunisia	7
Streaks to success: The effects of highlighting streaks on student effort and learning	7
Rank, peer achievement, and shadow education: Evidence from secondary school students in China	7
The effects of accelerated mathematics on self-efficacy and growth mindset	7
Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico	7
The effect of school closures on standardized test scores: Evidence under zero-COVID policies	7
Do welfare counsellors help at-risk upper secondary school students?	7
Local economic impact of small, non-research private universities: evidence from Japan	7
The Influence of Mega Universities on college competition and outcomes	7
Peer creativity and academic achievement	6
Endogenous peer effects in diverse friendship networks: Evidence from Swedish classrooms	6
School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic	6
Four-day school weeks and teacher mobility: Evidence from Missouri and Oklahoma	6
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates	6
Post-secondary funding and the educational attainment of indigenous students	6
Does test-based accountability improve more than just test scores?	6
Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India	6
Where do colleges advertise? Demographic targeting by U.S. colleges	6
Editorial Board	6
What happens when we pay our teachers more? Evidence from New Jersey public schools	6
Can gamified online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda	6