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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender	154
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts	121
LGBTQ Economics	111
The Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions for Young Adults and Their Sources	97
The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications	87
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage	80
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies	75
An Economist’s Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease	72
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-Employment Margins	68
Taxing Our Wealth	67
Statistical Significance,p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty	67
Agricultural Technology in Africa	65
Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects	62
Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference	60
Epidemiology’s Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics	58
The Economics of Intangible Capital	57
The Evolution of Work from Home	55
The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There?	55
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics	49
An Introductory Guide to Event Study Models	47
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System	47
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession	46
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States	45
Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges	45
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs During Recessions?	44

Risk Appetite and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy	44
Four Facts about Human Capital	43
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	40
Intangible Capital and Modern Economies	39
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field	39
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System	37
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe	34
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation	33
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics	32
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa	32
The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case	32
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms	31
Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality	31
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap	28
Business Incomes at the Top	28
The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action	27
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining	27
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles	26
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?	25
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity	24
Estimating Judicial Ideology	24
Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?	23
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children	23
Monetary Policy When the Central Bank Shapes Financial-Market Sentiment	22
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety	20
Tracking the Pandemic in Real Time: Administrative Micro Data in Business Cycles Enters the Spotlight	19
The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations	19
Inequality in Early Care Experienced by US Children	19
When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic	19
Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties	19
Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It	19
Monetary Policy and Inequality	18
The Resilience of the Euro	18
Measuring Human Capital	18
Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison	17
Expected and Realized Inflation in Historical Perspective	17
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	16
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt	16
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	16
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa	15
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy	15
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary	15
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	15
Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man	14
The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth	14
Retrospectives: James Buchanan: Clubs and Alternative Welfare Economics	14
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions	13
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization	13
Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox	12
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	12

Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?	11
Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience	11
A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure	11
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates	10
Landings, Soft and Hard: The Federal Reserve, 1965–2022	10
The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests	10
Are Developed Countries Outsourcing Pollution?	10
Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications	10
Fiscal Histories	9
Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments	9
Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data	9
Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	9
Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	9
Economics of Foster Care	9
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	9
An Ounce of Prevention	8
How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020	8
Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid	8
Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	8
Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa	8
Marketing Investment and Intangible Brand Capital	7
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	7
Retrospectives: On the Evolution of the Rules versus Discretion Debate in Monetary Policy	7
A 30-Year Perspective on Property Derivatives: What Can Be Done to Tame Property Price Risk?	7
The Economics of Electricity Reliability	7
Global Transportation Decarbonization	7
US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective	6
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	6
Is There Any Future for a US Labor Movement?	6
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	6
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	6