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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Heat and Learning	91
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps	68
Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset	49
Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat	48
Adopt or Innovate: Understanding Technological Responses to Cap-and-Trade	40
Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion	38
Network Externality and Subsidy Structure in Two-Sided Markets: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Incentives	31
Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia	30
The State of American Entrepreneurship: New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988–2014	30
Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation	27
Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China	23
Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending	22
Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?	21
The Rise of Working Mothers and the 1975 Earned Income Tax Credit	20
Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps	19
The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles	18
Peer Effects in Residential Water Conservation: Evidence from Migration	18
Relative Prices and Climate Policy: How the Scarcity of Nonmarket Goods Drives Policy Evaluation	17
The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health	17
Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP	17
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers	17
Do School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession	16
Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India: Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy, and Training	16
Upstream and Downstream Impacts of College Merit-Based Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia	16
The Rising Value of Time and the Origin of Urban Gentrification	16

Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Renewable Energy	16
Optimal Income Taxation with Present Bias	15
School Spending and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Revenue Limit Elections in Wisconsin	15
Wired and Hired: Employment Effects of Subsidized Broadband Internet for Low-Income Americans	15
Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of US Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts	15
Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program	14
Long-Term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods	14
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency	14
Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market	14
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation	13
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments	13
Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement‑Error‑Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach	13
Rethinking Detroit	13
The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes	13
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment	12
Optimal Climate Policy When Damages are Unknown	12
The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity	12
Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government, and Tax Evasion	10
Discrete Prices and the Incidence and Efficiency of Excise Taxes	10
The Effect of Leaded Gasoline on Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Regulatory Exemptions	10
Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	10
The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund	10
The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education	10
Misunderstanding Nonlinear Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Residential Electricity Demand	10
Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?	10
The Macroeconomic Effects of Income and Consumption Tax Changes	10
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia’s False Positives	10
Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector	9
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing	9
Improving Preferential Market Access through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh	9
Why Are Relatively Poor People Not More Supportive of Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across Ten Countries	9
Thy Neighbor’s Misfortune: Peer Effect on Consumption	9
Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data	9
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence	9
Does School Desegregation Promote Diverse Interactions? An Equilibrium Model of Segregation within Schools	9
Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism	8
Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices	8
Do People Respond to the Mortgage Interest Deduction? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Denmark	8
Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design	8
Horizontal Differentiation and the Policy Effect of Charter Schools	8
Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance	8
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	8
Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality	7
Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle	7
Long-Term Care Insurance: Information Frictions and Selection	7
Adaptation to Environmental Change: Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program	7
Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand	7
The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications	7
Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes	7
How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?	7

Hidden Baggage: Behavioral Responses to Changes in Airline Ticket Tax Disclosure	7
Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance in Brazil	7
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs	7
Climate Change and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census	7
Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Tax Returns	6
The Sensitivity of Housing Demand to Financing Conditions: Evidence from a Survey	6
The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion	6
Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education	6
The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina	6
Price-Linked Subsidies and Imperfect Competition in Health Insurance	6
How Taxing Is Tax Filing? Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Compliance Costs	6
Unit Sales and Price Effects of Preannounced Consumption Tax Reforms: Micro-level Evidence from European VAT	6
Retail Prices in a City	6
Mortality, Temperature, and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico	6
How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree	6
Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries	6
Does Hospital Crowding Matter? Evidence from Trauma and Orthopedics in England	5
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment	5
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment	5
The Hazards of Unwinding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Child Maltreatment	5
The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector	5
Who Benefits When Firms Game Corrective Policies?	5
Reported MPC and Unobserved Heterogeneity	5
Health Effects of Increasing Income for the Elderly: Evidence from a Chilean Pension Program	5
More than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic	5
Where Do Students Go When For-Profit Colleges Lose Federal Aid?	5
The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices	5
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges	4
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria	4
Criminal Deterrence when There Are Offsetting Risks: Traffic Cameras, Vehicular Accidents, and Public Safety	4
The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment	4
Unemployment Insurance and Means-Tested Program Interactions: Evidence from Administrative Data	4
Market Power and Income Taxation	4
Parental Support, Savings, and Student Loan Repayment	4
Housing Lock: Dutch Evidence on the Impact of Negative Home Equity on Household Mobility	4
Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness, and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the US	4
Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium	4
Bunching to Maximize Tax Credits: Evidence from Kinks in the US Tax Schedule	4
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities	4
The Long-Run Effects of a Public Policy on Alcohol Tastes and Mortality	4
The Internet as a Tax Haven?	4
Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation	4
How Do Households Value the Future? Evidence from Property Taxes	4
Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application	4
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution	3
Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments	3
Influence and Information in Team Decisions: Evidence from Medical Residency	3
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply	3
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care	3
Health Care Rationing in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence from Medicaid	3
Corporate Taxation under Weak Enforcement	3
Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College	3
Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment	3
Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time	3
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices	3
The Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice	3
Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not	3
Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts	3
Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions	3
Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan	3
Special Economic Zones and Human Capital Investment: 30 Years of Evidence from China	3
The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Adult Criminality: Evidence from the 1960s through 1990s	3
Subsidizing Fuel-Efficient Cars: Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry	3
Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence from 30 Years of Tax Reforms	3