OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	162
Recommendations for Further Reading	111
The Economics of Intangible Capital	107
Front Matter	81
Recommendations for Further Reading	80
Lessons for Expanding the Share of Disadvantaged Students in Economics from the AEA Summer Program at Michigan State University	76
Oleg Itskhoki: 2022 John Bates Clark Medalist	73
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	68
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary	67
Recommendations for Further Reading	67
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap	60
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-Employment Margins	59
Retrospectives: Joan Robinson on Karl Marx: “His Sense of Reality Is Far Stronger”	57
The Economics Profession’s Socioeconomic Diversity Problem	55
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	55
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions	54
Monetary Policy When the Central Bank Shapes Financial-Market Sentiment	53
Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?	51
Is Pay Transparency Good?	49
Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries	49
Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison	47
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	45
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics	45
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining	40
Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications	39

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020	38
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field	37
The Economic Constitution of the United States	37
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt	33
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	32
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa	32
Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	31
Estimating Judicial Ideology	31
Expected and Realized Inflation in Historical Perspective	28
Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa	27
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms	26
Melissa Dell: Winner of the 2020 Clark Medal	26
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe	26
The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case	25
Retrospectives: On the Evolution of the Rules versus Discretion Debate in Monetary Policy	24
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	24
Recommendations for Further Reading	23
Recommendations for Further Reading	22
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	21
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	21
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	20
Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education	19
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System	19
Front Matter	19
Four Facts about Human Capital	19
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	19
A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure	18
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa	18
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	17
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968	17
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles	16
Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man	16
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	15
Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures and Industrial Policy	15
The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests	15
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?	15
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	15
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender	14
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics	14
The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations	14
Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments	13
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs During Recessions?	13
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	12
The Economics of Electricity Reliability	12
Marketing Investment and Intangible Brand Capital	12
Front Matter	11
Retrospectives: Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra	11
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	11
Recommendations for Further Reading	11
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?	10

Front Matter	10
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?	10
Front Matter	10
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization	9
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates	9
Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid	9
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	9
Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway	9
Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It	9
An Ounce of Prevention	9
Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience	9
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	9
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity	8
Monetary Policy and Inequality	8
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	8
Agricultural Technology in Africa	8
Retrospectives: Friedman and Schwartz, Disaggregated	7
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy	7
When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic	7
Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries	6
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession	6
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation	6
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System	6
Philanthropic Cause Prioritization	6