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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of pre-conference advice on academic talk effectiveness	45
Home broadband and human capital formation	44
State differences in pathways to school leadership and in achievement growth	39
Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status	28
Putting the “A” in AP: The effect of advanced placement state policies on student participation and performance	27
Well-being and technology: The effect of individual laptops in high school	25
University peers and career prospects: The impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes	22
Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England	21
Online teaching and gender bias	20
School attendance and child labor: Evidence from Mexico’s Full-Time School program	20
Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills	20
The role of individual institutions in creating effective and efficient transfer pathways from community college to bachelor’s degree	20
How cost framing affects college applications: evidence from a targeted information intervention	19
The impacts of same and opposite gender alumni speakers on interest in economics	19
The economics of encouragement: Can a simple email shape major choice?	18
Foreign language skills and labor market outcomes: The case of English in Mexico	18
Public health insurance and special education enrollment	18
Comparing earnings outcome differences between all graduates and title IV graduates	17
School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education	15
Editorial Board	15
Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan	15
The importance of external assessments: High school math and gender gaps in STEM degrees	15
De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment	15
Trends in international assessments and outcomes in adulthood	14
Liquidity for teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn	14

Good or bad? Understanding the effects over time of multigrading on child achievement	14
Formal vs. informal mathematics: Assessing numeracy with school and market items in a large sample of school-aged children in North-West Nigeria	14
Attending a school with heterogeneous peers: The effects of school detracking and its attenuation	14
How do public schools respond to competition? Evidence from a charter school expansion	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
Editorial Board	13
Scaling up: Advanced Placement Incentive Program	13
The demand for data analytical skills by gender: Evidence from a field experiment	12
The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs	12
Short-run shock, long-run consequences? The impact of grandparental death on educational outcomes	12
The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from top 14 law schools	12
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: a new method with an application to school meals	12
Predicting teacher retention behavior: Ex ante prediction and ex post realization of a voluntary retirement incentive offer	12
The timing of the unconditional cash transfers and human capital accumulation: experimental evidence from Malawi	11
Particulate pollution and learning	11
Does the provision of universal free school meals improve school attendance?	11
Social identity and learning: Adult literacy program in India	11
A multi-state, student-level analysis of the effects of the four-day school week on student achievement and growth	11
Relative performance feedback and the effects of being above average — field experiment and replication	11
The UK Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Consequences for the education and employment of older children	11
Editorial Board	11
Messaging teachers to boost student EdTech use	11
The rising influence of family background on early school performance	11
The attraction of magnet schools: Evidence from embedded lotteries in school assignment	11
Teacher relationship skills and student learning	10
Is a name change a game change? The impact of college-to-university conversions	10
Central exams and adult skills: Evidence from PIAAC	10
Editorial Board	10
Labor market conditions and college graduation: Evidence from Brazil	10
Closing the income-achievement gap? Experimental evidence from high-dosage tutoring in Dutch primary education	9
Racial and gendered impacts of international students on domestic peers	9
The effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native students. Evidence from Chile	9
Gender Bias in Evaluation Processes	9
Boys left behind: The effects of summer camp and follow-up strategies on academic, personal, and social competencies	9
Skill-biased technological change and intergenerational education mobility	9
The educational experiences of Indian children during COVID-19	9
The impact of work-based versus school-based learning on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in vocational secondary education	9
Escaping into a master's degree in times of crisis? Master's degree applications and enrolment over the business cycle	9
Educational impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program in Mali	9
Does state-mandated financial education reduce high school graduation rates?	9
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution?	8
The impact of need-based aid on higher education achievement: Evidence from Portugal	8
Financial literacy calls the roll — The effectiveness of a financial education program in Italian schools	8
The impact of combining performance-management tools and training with diagnostic feedback in public schools: Experimental evidence from Argentina	8
Book matters: The effect of Cocky’s Reading Express on student performance	8
The effects of financial aid on graduation and labor market outcomes: New evidence from matched education-labor data	8
A for effort: Incomplete information and college students’ academic performance	8
Ability signals and rigorous coursework: Evidence from AP Calculus participation	8
Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data	8
All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test scores	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
The effect of school closures on standardized test scores: Evidence under zero-COVID policies	7
Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway	7
The Influence of Mega Universities on college competition and outcomes	7
Streaks to success: The effects of highlighting streaks on student effort and learning	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 effect of female education on fertility: Evidence from China’s compulsory schooling reform	7
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
Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico	7
Where do colleges advertise? Demographic targeting by U.S. colleges	7
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates	6
Genetic risk, childhood obesity, and educational achievements	6
Does test-based accountability improve more than just test scores?	6
Editorial Board	6
Endogenous peer effects in diverse friendship networks: Evidence from Swedish classrooms	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
Gender and choices in higher education	6
Post-secondary funding and the educational attainment of indigenous students	6
Four-day school weeks and teacher mobility: Evidence from Missouri and Oklahoma	6
Preschool and child health: Evidence from China's universal child care reform	6
Progressivity of pricing at US public universities	6