OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Development Economics is 10. 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
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age	45
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	45
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	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
The new era of unconditional convergence	41
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	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
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	38
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	38

Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania	36
Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries	35
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	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
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development	29
How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession	29
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity	29
What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms	28
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic	28
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala	27
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China	27
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	27
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	27
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	27
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	27
Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China	26
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania	26
Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China	26
Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China	25
Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment	25
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development	24
Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India	23
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	23
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America	23
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization	23
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries	23
Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland	23
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	23
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches	23
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts	22
Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	22
Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance	22
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust	22
Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico	22
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana	22
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	21
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance	21
The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA	20
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	20
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	20
Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil	20
Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design	19
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods	19
Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa	19
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	18
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data	18
Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data	17

Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?	17
Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women	17
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India	17
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption	16
Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations	16
Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board	16
Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning	16
Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China	16
The political impacts of land expropriation in China	16
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia	16
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak	16
Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India	15
Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda	15
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees	15
Slums and pandemics	15
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	15
Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project	15
How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the	15
Trade, policy, and economic development in the digital economy	15
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households	15
Early childhood exposure to health insurance and adolescent outcomes: Evidence from rural China	15
An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth	14
Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru	14
Measuring social unrest using media reports	14
Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China	14
Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China	14
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive	14
Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality	14
Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China	14
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia	14
Labor market impacts and responses: The economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster	13
Doing business in China: Parental background and government intervention determine who owns busines	13
Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya	13
Incentives, penalties, and rural air pollution: Evidence from satellite data	13
Adaptation to temperature extremes in Chinese agriculture, 1981 to 2010	13
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration	13
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	13
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	13
Climate change, cropland adjustments, and food security: Evidence from China	13
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	13
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	13
How productive is public investment? Evidence from formal and informal production in India	12
Restricted access: How the internet can be used to promote reading and learning	12
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia	12
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?	12
How does delegating decisions to communities affect the provision and use of a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh	12
The role of food preferences in determining diet quality for Tanzanian consumers	12
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	12
Endogenous gender power: The two facets of empowerment	12
Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters	12
Macroeconomic outcomes in disaster-prone countries	12
Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	12
Discrimination from below: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia	12
Environmental effects of development programs: Experimental evidence from West African dryland forests	11
Neighborhood violence, poverty, and psychological well-being	11
Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale	11
High-skilled services and development in China	11
The legacy effect of unexploded bombs on educational attainment in Laos	11
Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon	11
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions	11
Rural roads, agricultural extension, and productivity	11
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment	11
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China	11
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	11
The globalization of refugee flows	11
Distorted quality signals in school markets	11
Partisanship and local fiscal policy: Evidence from Brazilian cities	11
Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India	11
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	11
Using household grants to benchmark the cost effectiveness of a USAID workforce readiness program	10
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	10
Agricultural composition and labor productivity	10
Network adoption subsidies: A digital evaluation of a rural mobile phone program in Rwanda	10
Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences	10
Productivity, non-compliance and the minimum wage	10
Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations	10
Railways and cities in India	10
Equality of opportunity and human capital accumulation: Motivational effect of a nationwide scholarship in Colombia	10
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity	10
IMF programs and economic growth: A meta-analysis	10