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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China	309
Working from home and income inequality: risks of a ‘new normal’ with COVID-19	235
Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic	175
Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries	150
COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects: a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies	102
Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust	90
The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US presidential election	83
COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed	53
Education and gender role attitudes	51
Identifying policy challenges of COVID-19 in hardly reliable data and judging the success of lockdown measures	41
Implications of COVID-19 labour market shocks for inequality in financial wellbeing	38
School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	35
Peer effects of low-ability students in the classroom: evidence from China’s middle schools	29
The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes: the case of China	27
The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News	27
Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?	24
Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	23
Does immigration decrease far-right popularity? Evidence from Finnish municipalities	23
Sexual orientation and earnings: a meta-analysis 2012–2020	22
True COVID-19 mortality rates from administrative data	21
Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse	21
Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.	20
The impact of repeated mass antigen testing for COVID-19 on the prevalence of the disease	19
Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees	19
The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean	18

Children, unhappiness and family finances	16
Intra-household bargaining power, surname inheritance, and human capital accumulation	16
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19	16
Culture and mental health resilience in times of COVID-19	16
Why is fertility on the rise in Egypt? The role of women’s employment opportunities	15
The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia	14
Ethnic attrition, assimilation, and the measured health outcomes of Mexican Americans	14
Does performance pay increase alcohol and drug use?	14
Endogenous education and the reversal in the relationship between fertility and economic growth	14
Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth	14
Maternity leave and female labor force participation: evidence from 159 countries	13
Gender differences in the skill content of jobs	11
The flip side of marital specialization: the gendered effect of divorce on living standards and labor supply	11
Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 transition countries	11
The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions	11
Global warming and urbanization	10
From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	10
Back to work or stay at home? Family policies and maternal employment in Finland	10
Does social participation improve cognitive abilities of the elderly?	10
Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: the role of time investments	10
Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants	10
Railroads, specialization, and population growth: evidence from the first globalization	9
Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?	9
Optimal lockdown and social welfare	9
In medio stat victus: Labor Demand Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age	8
Names and behavior in a war	8
Safety at work and immigration	8
Brothers increase women’s gender conformity	8
Weathering the storm: weather shocks and international labor migration from the Philippines	8
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	8
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	8
Malthus in preindustrial Northern Italy?	8
The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the USA	7
Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates: evidence from Hungary	7
Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia	7
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	7
The education gender gap and the demographic transition in developing countries	7
Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer?	7
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	7
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	7
Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments	7
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	7
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	7
Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–2020	6
Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice	6
Cohort at risk: long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement	6
School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism: evidence from European countries	6
Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes	6
The unequal impact of natural light on crime	6
The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination	6

Heaven can wait: future tense and religiosity	6
Fertility versus productivity: a model of growth with evolutionary equilibria	6
Children and labor market outcomes: separating the effects of the first three children	6
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes	6
Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood	5
Do high aspirations lead to better outcomes? Evidence from a longitudinal survey of adolescents in Peru	5
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	5
The intergenerational effects of birth order on education	5
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	5
Saving lives: the 2006 expansion of daylight saving in Indiana	4
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	4
Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences	4
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	4
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	4
Housing market regulations and strategic divorce propensity in China	4
The US COVID-19 baby bust and rebound	4
The sex ratio and global sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era	4
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	4
Health spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program	4
Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality	4
Neighborhoods and mental health—evidence from a natural experiment in the public social housing sector	4
The impact of 2020 French municipal elections on the spread of COVID-19	4
Managing the impact of climate on migration: evidence from Mexico	4
Landownership concentration and human capital accumulation in post-unification Italy	3
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	3
Identifying ethnic occupational segregation	3
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	3
Analysing tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands using structural models and natural experiments	3
Big Five personality traits and sex	3
Minimum working age and the gender mortality gap	3
Quasi-experimental evidence for the causal link between fertility and subjective well-being	3
Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal	3
Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic	3
Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women	3
Aging and automation in economies with search frictions	3
Social Mobility and Political Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949–2017	3
The effect of compulsory schooling laws and child labor restrictions on fertility: evidence from the early twentieth century	3
Demographic change and the rate of return in pay-as-you-go pension systems	3
How family background shapes the relationship between human capital and fertility	3
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	3
Native Americans’ experience of chronic distress in the USA	3
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	3
Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms	2
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	2
I am a survivor, keep on surviving: early-life exposure to conflict and subjective survival probabilities in adult life	2
The inter-generational fertility effect of an abortion ban	2
Deportation, crime, and victimization	2
The effect of paid vacation on health: evidence from Sweden	2
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes	2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers	2
Excess churn in integrated labor markets	2
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Economic geography of contagion: a study of COVID-19 outbreak in India	2
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship	2
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	2
Health and aging before and after retirement	2
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	2
Under- and over-investment in education: the role of locked-in fertility	2
Compensation for girls in early childhood and its long-run impact: family investment strategies under rainfall shocks	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Delay in childbearing and the evolution of fertility rates	2
Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women	2
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	2