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

Article	Citations
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?	137
Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign	113
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming	76
Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms	73
Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining	43
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment	41
Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services	36
Democracy and Aid Donorship	35
Labor Supply Responses to Income Taxation among Older Couples: Evidence from a Canadian Reform	34
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?	34
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus	34
Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments	33
The Internet as a Tax Haven?	31
Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention	31
The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices	31
Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations	30
My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement	29
The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt	29
Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students	28
The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts and the Disciplining Role of Board Appointments	28
College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana	27
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence	26
ACE—Analytic Climate Economy	25
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria	24
Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market	23

The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa	23
Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família	22
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence	22
Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements	19
Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients	19
Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation	18
Refugee Benefit Cuts	17
Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time	16
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy	16
Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project	15
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation	14
Front Matter	14
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School	14
Front Matter	14
Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries	14
Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany	13
Identity in Court Decision-Making	13
The Returns to Public Library Investment	12
Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts	12
The Not-So-Uniform Effects of Trade Secret Protection on Business Entry	12
Front Matter	12
Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation	12
Front Matter	10
Front Matter	10
Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion	10
The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap	10
Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application	10
Childhood Housing and Adult Outcomes: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing	9
Does Hospital Crowding Matter? Evidence from Trauma and Orthopedics in England	9
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps	9
Mortality, Temperature, and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico	9
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments	9
The Rising Value of Time and the Origin of Urban Gentrification	9
Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries	8
International Transmission of Inequality through Trade	8
The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments	8
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities	8
No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance	8
Voting for Democracy: Chile’s Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation	8
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	8
Optimal Internality Taxation of Product Attributes	8
Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP	7
Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations	7
Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California	7
Subsidizing Fuel-Efficient Cars: Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry	7
Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy	7
Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers	7
Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics	7
Exploring Residual Profit Allocation	7
Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology‑Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?	7

Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs	7
Multinationals’ Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens	7
Front Matter	7
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality	7
School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order	7
Depreciating Licenses	7
Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices	7
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities	6
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes	6
Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras	6
Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes	6
Does Health-Care Consolidation Harm Patients? Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures	6
Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality	6
Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan	6
Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform	6
Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions	6
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans	6
Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-Up of Naloxone	6
The Making of Civic Virtues:A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries	6
Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation	6
Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation	6
Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records	6
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution	5
Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance	5
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work	5
The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid	5
The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities	5
Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program	5
The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from US States	5
Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations	5
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market	5
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences	5
Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China	5
The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment	5
Public Financing and Racial Disparities: Does a Rising Tide Always Lift All Boats?	5
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality	5
Sin Taxes and Self-Control	5
Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime	5
Tripping through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures	4
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges	4
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery	4
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand	4
How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits? Comment	4
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices	4
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care	4
The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina	4
Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies	4
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts	4
Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools	4
Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement	4
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment	4
Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change	4
Fueling Alternatives: Gas Station Choice and the Implications for Electric Charging	4
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply	4
Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity	3
Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes	3
Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System	3
Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy	3
Improving Preferential Market Access through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh	3
The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil	3
Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices	3
Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment	3
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency	3
Should College be “Free”? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial	3
Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?	3
Dominated Options in Health Insurance Plans	3
The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion	3
Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment	3
Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?	3
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force	3
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers	3
Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions	3
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations	3
Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers’ Hiring Standards	3
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment	3
Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform	3
How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?	3
Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses	3
Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India’s Public Distribution System	3