OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 26. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn	169
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender	141
The Economics of Urban Density	137
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?	125
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts	105
LGBTQ Economics	103
Facts and Myths about Misperceptions	102
The Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions for Young Adults and Their Sources	89
How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies	85
The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications	80
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage	78
An Economist’s Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease	68
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies	67
Statistical Significance,p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty	62
Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?	61
Agricultural Technology in Africa	60
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-Employment Margins	60
Taxing Our Wealth	60
Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities	58
Epidemiology’s Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics	56
Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects	56
Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference	55
The Economics of Intangible Capital	53
The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There?	49
Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities	49

Tech Clusters	47
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics	46
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States	45
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession	44
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System	41
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs During Recessions?	40
Four Facts about Human Capital	38
The Evolution of Work from Home	37
An Introductory Guide to Event Study Models	36
How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx, and Native American People in the Economics Profession	34
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	34
Intangible Capital and Modern Economies	33
Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges	33
Risk Appetite and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy	32
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System	31
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa	31
The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case	30
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics	30
Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality	29
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation	28
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms	28
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap	27
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe	27
Business Incomes at the Top	26