OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Inequality is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Monetary compensation schemes during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for household incomes, liquidity constraints and consumption across the EU	133
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	86
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	56
The gender pay gap at the early stages of academic careers	52
The most likeable soccer players and the least likeable hockey players are in greater demand	33
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	33
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries	27
Combined and distributional effects of EPL reduction and hiring incentives: an assessment using the Italian “Jobs Act”	24
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	24
Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities	23
Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications	21
Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US	21
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	19
Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data	14
Traces of the past in income inequality	13
Regional and ethnic inequalities in Malaysian poverty dynamics	12
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	12
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	11
A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers	10
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	10
Characterising life-cycle dynamics of annual days of work, wages, and cross-covariances	9
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	9
Job polarisation and household borrowing	9
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	9
Pareto models for top incomes and wealth	8

Credit and income mobility in Russia	8
Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation	7
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America	7
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	7
Gender disparities in top earnings: measurement and facts for Denmark 1980-2013	6
A multivariate extension of the Lorenz curve based on copulas and a related multivariate Gini coefficient	6
Devolution in the U.S. Welfare Reform: Divergence and Degradation in State Benefits	6
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	6
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	6
The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?	5
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	5
Book reviews	5
Introduction March 2021 issue	5
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	5
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	4
Governmental support and multidimensional poverty alleviation: efficiency assessment in rural areas of Vietnam	4
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	4
Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan	4
Distributional impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the CARES Act	4
A note on pessimism in education and its economic consequences	4
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	4
Missing Poor in the U.S.	3
Greater wealth, greater uncertainty: Changes in racial inequality in the Survey of Consumer Finances	3
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	3
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	3
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	3
Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India	3
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	3
Fair income tax with endogenous productivities and a fresh start	3
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	3
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium	3
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	2
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	2
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	2
Extending multidimensional poverty identification: from additive weights to minimal bundles	2
Book reviews	2
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	2
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	2
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	2
Does return migration with government support drive county economic convergence? Evidence from migrant workers returning to hometown for entrepreneurship in China	2
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	2
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	2
Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: micro problems with macro implications	1
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	1
Measuring income inequality in social networks	1
Do economic globalization and the level of education impede poverty levels? A non-linear ARDL approach	1
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	1
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	1
Intergenerational home ownership	1

Openness, Income Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from China	1
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	1
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data	1
Absolute Poverty and Sound Public Finance in the Eurozone	1
Asset bubbles in explaining top income shares	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
Missing Top Income Recipients	1
Borrower discouragement and multidimensional child deprivation in Ghana	1
Correction to: Extendingmultidimensional Poverty Identification: from Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles	1
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	1
Book reviews	1
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	1
Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality	1
Optimal income support for lone parents in the Netherlands: are we there yet?	1
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	1
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?	1
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields	1
Opportunity advantage between income distributions	1
Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance: a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries	1