OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 34. 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
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	149
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020	114
Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania	109
Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal	97
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	92
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	89
Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones	81
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	76
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	76
The emergence of the poverty-mental health gradient: Evidence from the great Pakistan earthquake of 2005	73
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity: Evidence from real estate	71
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	70
On the right track? Railroads, industrial development, and distributional effects in historical China	69
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	65
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	60
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	59
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	58
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	55
Communist propaganda and women’s status	53
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	51
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	49
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	46
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	46
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	45
Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru	45

Editorial Board	44
Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India	43
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	40
Temporary migration for long-term investment	40
The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China	40
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	40
Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies	38
Grassland certification, grazing behavior, and ecological consequences: Evidence from pastoral China	35
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	34
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	34