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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	332
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	105
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	92
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	77
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	75
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	73
Editorial Board	71
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	64
Get in the Zone: The Risk-Adjusted Welfare Effects of Data-Driven vs. Administrative Borders for Index Insurance Zones	62
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	57
Communist propaganda and women’s status	51
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	51
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	50
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	48
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	48
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	45
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	45
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	44
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	44
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	43
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	43
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	42
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	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	41

Editorial Board	40
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	38
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	38
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	38
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	37
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	36
Large Firms and the Intensive Margin of Labor Informality Evidence from an Enforcement Intervention in Peru	36
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	35
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	34
Temporary migration for long-term investment	34