OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Economic Policy is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign	103
Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining	60
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming	45
Front Matter	44
Cross-State Strategic Voting	42
Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms	39
Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services	36
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?	36
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus	35
Labor Supply Responses to Income Taxation among Older Couples: Evidence from a Canadian Reform	35
The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt	32
Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention	32
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?	31
My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement	31
Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations	28
The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices	27
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment	27
Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments	25
College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana	24
The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts and the Disciplining Role of Board Appointments	22
ACE—Analytic Climate Economy	21
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence	21
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence	19
The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa	17
Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students	16

Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School	16
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria	16
Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família	16
Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements	15
Front Matter	14
Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project	14
Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time	14
Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence	14
Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation	14
Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients	14
Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries	14
Refugee Benefit Cuts	13
Front Matter	13
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy	13
Front Matter	13
Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany	12
Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation	12
Identity in Court Decision-Making	11
The Returns to Public Library Investment	11
Front Matter	11
The Not-So-Uniform Effects of Trade Secret Protection on Business Entry	11
Front Matter	11
Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts	11
Mortality, Temperature, and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico	10
The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments	10
Does Hospital Crowding Matter? Evidence from Trauma and Orthopedics in England	10
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments	10
The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap	10
Childhood Housing and Adult Outcomes: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing	10
Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs	9
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities	9
Optimal Internality Taxation of Product Attributes	9
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	9
Voting for Democracy: Chile’s Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation	9
Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology‑Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?	9
No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance	9
International Transmission of Inequality through Trade	9
Front Matter	8
Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers	8
Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California	8
Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-Up of Naloxone	8
Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy	8
Multinationals’ Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens	8
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities	8
School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order	8
Depreciating Licenses	8
Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics	8
Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations	8
Does Health-Care Consolidation Harm Patients? Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures	7
Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan	7

Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans	7
The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from US States	7
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality	7
The Making of Civic Virtues:A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries	7
Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes	7
The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment	7
Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras	7
Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality	7
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes	7
Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation	7
Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance	7
Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation	7
Exploring Residual Profit Allocation	7
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery	6
The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid	6
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality	6
Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations	6
Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime	6
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care	6
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work	6
Sin Taxes and Self-Control	6
Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions	6
Public Financing and Racial Disparities: Does a Rising Tide Always Lift All Boats?	6
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market	6
The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities	6
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution	6
Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records	6
Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China	6
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences	5
Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools	5
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand	5
Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement	5
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply	5
Hacked to Pieces? The Effects of Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals and Patients	5
Tripping through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures	5
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges	5
Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies	4
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts	4
Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment	4
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers	4
Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices	4
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices	4
Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change	4
Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India’s Public Distribution System	4
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency	4
Insecurity and Firm Displacement: Evidence from Afghan Corporate Phone Records	4
Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation	4
The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina	4
Fueling Alternatives: Gas Station Choice and the Implications for Electric Charging	4
How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits? Comment	4
Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses	4
Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment	4
Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity	4
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force	3
Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers’ Hiring Standards	3
Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?	3
How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?	3
Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity	3
The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration	3
Shaping the Habits of Teen Drivers	3
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment	3
Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?	3
Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions	3
Should College be “Free”? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial	3
Front Matter	3
The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives	3
Pensions and Fertility: Microeconomic Evidence	3
Hassle Costs versus Information: How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing?	3
Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System	3
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations	3
The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil	3
The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion	3
Do Credit Supply Shocks Affect Employment in Middle-Income Countries?	3
Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform	3
Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not	3