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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Ageing unequally in Latin America	28
Migrant wealth in Germany	26
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	24
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	16
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	16
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	15
Poverty-reducing income taxation	15
Fairness judgments about animals	14
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	14
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	12
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	12
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	12
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	12
Consumption and borrowing: Land-holding inequality and the effects of cash transfers	10
Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment	10
The mth Gini index estimator: Unbiasedness for gamma populations	10
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	8
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	7
Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data	7
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	7
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	6
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	6
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	6
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	6

Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	6
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	6
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	6
Missing Poor in the U.S.	6
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	5
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	5
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	5
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	4
Global income polarization: relative and absolute perspectives	4
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	4
The U-shaped relationship between wage inequality and goods-market competition	4
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	4
Intergenerational home ownership	4
Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices*	4
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	4
Monetary policy and racial differentials in labor market outcomes	4
Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy	4
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	4
Bayesian inference for income inequality using a Pareto II tail with an uncertain threshold: combining EU-SILC and WID data	3
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	3
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response	3
Review: Urban Inequalities – A Multidimensional and International Perspective, edited by Graciela H. Tonon	3
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	3
Does the Gini index represent people’s views on inequality?	3
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	3
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing	3
Correction to: Thinking about need	3
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India	3
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	3
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	3
Thinking about need	3
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	3
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	3
Gini who? The relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction	3
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	2
#MeToo…or not? Do salient shocks affect gender social norms?	2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	2
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	2
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	2
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	2
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: a survey experiment	2
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	2
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution	2
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	2
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Review: The Handbook of Inequality and Work, by Cynthia Forson, Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Öztürk, and Ahu Tatli	2
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	2

Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	2
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	2
Book reviews	2
Non-linear impact of minimum wage on poverty and inequality: when raising it fails to help	2
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
Heritability and public policy – a reappraisal	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	1
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	1
Inequalities in educational achievement: effect of group capabilities	1
Income developments in the great recession: status for the Danish prime-age working population a decade following the onset of the Financial Crisis	1
Study strategies during emergency-related distance learning. The role of gender and field of study	1
Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression estimation of wage inequality in the MENA region	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
Telework and the gender pay gap along the wage distribution	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
Taxation for development: the impact of the Ebola epidemic on citizen support across Western Africa	1
The persistent relationship between family background and educational attainment in the Netherlands	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	1
Measuring hearts and minds: A validated survey module on inequality aversion and altruism	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1