OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 33. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China	307
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	166
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China	150
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	143
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China	138
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?	132
Greening through finance?	131
The effect of air pollution on body weight and obesity: Evidence from China	106
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics	71
Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative	66
Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the “Under the Dome”	64
The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China	62
Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis	60
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India	55
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya	54
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China	53
Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy	49
Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali	49
The price of gold: Dowry and death in India	47
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	47
Close to the edge: High productivity at plot peripheries and the inverse size-productivity relationship	46
The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?	45
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China	43
Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing	38
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	38

Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty	38
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect	37
Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India	37
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	37
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height	35
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China	35
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	33
Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification: Evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid	33
Early-life deprivation and health outcomes in adulthood: Evidence from childhood hunger episodes of middle-aged and elderly Chinese	33
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	33
Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative	33