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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	281
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	267
Communist propaganda and women’s status	249
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	117
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	103
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	102
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	83
Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors	76
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	68
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	62
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	62
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	61
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	54
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	53
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	52
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	51
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	50
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	50
Temporary migration for long-term investment	49
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	47
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	42
Editorial Board	42
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	40
Editorial Board	40
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	38

Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	38
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	38
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	38
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	37
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	37
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	36
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	35
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	35
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	35
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports	35
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	35