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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	57
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	53
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	38
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	36
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	33
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	28
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	25
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	21
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	18
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	18
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	18
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	17
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	17
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	17
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	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	15
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	15
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	15
Household impacts of child health shocks	15
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	14
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	14
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

Estimating treatment effects of the one-child policy: a self-report approach	13
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	12
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	12
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	10
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	10
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	10
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	10
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	10
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	10
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	10
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	9
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	9
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	9
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	9
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	9
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	9
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	9
The impact of global warming on obesity	9
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	9
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	9
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	9
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	8
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	8
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	8
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	8
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	8
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	8
The female happiness paradox	8
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	8
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	7
Too much of a good thing? Using tax incentives to stimulate dual-earner couples	7
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India	7
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools	6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	6
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	6
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs	6
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	6
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation	6
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration	6
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	6
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	6
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	5
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	5
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	5

In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	5
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	5
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model	4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
Happy citizens trust their rulers	4
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	4
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	4
Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited	4
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	4
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing	4
Family foster care or residential care: the impact of home environment on children raised in state care	4
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	4
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	4
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	4
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	4
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	4
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	4
Health and aging before and after retirement	3
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	3
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	3
Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?	3
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	3
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	3
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	3
Forced migration and food crises	3
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	3
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	3
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	3
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	3
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	3
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence	2
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
Preventing reforming unequally	2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies	2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	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
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
The effects of an epidemic on prenatal investments, childhood mortality and health of surviving children	2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile	2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy	2
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers	2
Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice	2