OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 32. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	217
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	209
Greening through finance?	194
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China	186
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?	182
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya	83
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics	82
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India	70
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect	57
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China	56
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	55
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China	53
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	47
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	47
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	45
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	45
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age	45
China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence	44
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin	42
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	41
The new era of unconditional convergence	41
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	39
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe	39
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	38
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	38

Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania	36
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	35
Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries	35
Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China	34
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	33
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	33
Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	32