OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Population Economics is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	50
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	50
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	31
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	31
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	28
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	27
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	25
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	25
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	22
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	20
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	16
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	16
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	16
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	15
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	14
Household impacts of child health shocks	14
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	14
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	14
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	14
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	14
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	13
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	13
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	13
Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data	13
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?	13

The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	12
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	12
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	10
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	10
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	10
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	10
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	10
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	9
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	9
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	9
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	9
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	9
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	9
The impact of global warming on obesity	9
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	8
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	8
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	8
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	8
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	8
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	8
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	8
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	8
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	8
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	7
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	7
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	7
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	7
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	7
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	7
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration	7
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	7
The female happiness paradox	7
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	7
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	6
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs	6
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation	6
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	6
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	5
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools	5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	5
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5

The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	4
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	4
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model	4
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	4
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	4
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	4
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	4
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	4
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	4
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	4
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	4
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	4
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	3
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	3
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	3
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship	3
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	3
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	3
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	3
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	3
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
Health and aging before and after retirement	3
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	3
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile	2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	2
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	2
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	2
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers	2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies	2
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme	2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy	2
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA	2
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries	2
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Preventing reforming unequally	2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2