OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 35. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	326
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	145
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	99
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	85
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	71
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	71
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	68
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	63
Editorial Board	61
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	59
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	58
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	51
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	49
Communist propaganda and women’s status	48
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	48
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	46
Get in the Zone: The Risk-Adjusted Welfare Effects of Data-Driven vs. Administrative Borders for Index Insurance Zones	46
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	45
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	45
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	44
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	42
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	42
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	42
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	41

Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	40
Editorial Board	39
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	37
Grassland Certification, Grazing Behavior, and Ecological Consequences: Evidence from Pastoral China	37
Temporary migration for long-term investment	37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	36
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	36
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	35
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	35
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	35
When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses	35