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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	136
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020	121
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	101
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	97
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	94
Participatory teaching improves learning outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania	91
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	85
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	77
Get in the zone: The risk-adjusted welfare effects of data-driven vs. administrative borders for index insurance zones	75
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	68
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	65
Communist propaganda and women’s status	64
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	64
Flexible contracting and quality upgrading under market volatility: Experimental evidence from Senegal	63
The emergence of the poverty-mental health gradient: Evidence from the great Pakistan earthquake of 2005	63
Demonetization and under-reporting of economic activity: Evidence from real estate	63
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	57
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	56
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	54
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	53
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	51
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	51
The impact of investment promotion on multinational production: Firm-level evidence	50
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	49
Large firms and the intensive margin of labor informality evidence from an enforcement intervention in Peru	47

Editorial Board	40
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	40
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	40
Caste identity and teachers’ biased expectations: Evidence from Bihar, India	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship	39
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	38
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	37
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	34