OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Development Economics is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	114
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Issue Information	41
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	38
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	30
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	30
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	27
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	24
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	22
Child labor, social capital, and economic development*	21
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	21
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	19
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	19
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	19
Issue Information	19
Research collaboration in development economics	19
Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	18
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	17
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	17
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	17
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	16
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	16
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Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	16
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	15

“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	15
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	14
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	14
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	14
Crime, elections, and political competition	13
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	13
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	13
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	12
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	12
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	11
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	11
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	10
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	10
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Local droughts and income risk among Thai households	10
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	10
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	10
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	10
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	10
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	10
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	10
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	10
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	9
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	9
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	9
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	9
Selection and performance in post‐compulsory education	8
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	8
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	8
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	8
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	8
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	8
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	8
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	8
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	8
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	8
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	8
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	7
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	7
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	7
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	7
The persistence of inequality across Indian states: A time series approach	7
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	7
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	7
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	7
Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6

Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	6
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	6
Timing of international market openings and shrinking middle‐income class	5
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	5
Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	5
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	5
Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	5
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China^†	5
The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	5
Finding the right products for export diversification	5
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	5
Son preference and the demographic transition	5
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	5
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	5
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	5
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	5
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	5
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence	4
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	4
Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	4
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Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	4
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The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	4
Population Aging and Corporate Innovation: A U‐Shaped Evidence From China	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
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Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	4
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	4
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	4
Military spending and sustainable development	4
Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	4
Issue Information	4
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	4
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	4
Direct and indirect effects of a massive piped water expansion on child‐related outcomes	4
Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	4
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	4
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	4
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	4