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

Article	Citations
Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign	106
Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining	66
Front Matter	46
Cross-State Strategic Voting	44
Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms	43
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?	36
Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria	35
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming	34
Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services	33
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus	32
Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention	28
Labor Supply Responses to Income Taxation among Older Couples: Evidence from a Canadian Reform	28
The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt	27
Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments	24
My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement	22
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment	22
Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations	22
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?	21
College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana	17
ACE—Analytic Climate Economy	16
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence	16
Front Matter	15
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence	15
The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa	15
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria	15

Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time	15
Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students	15
The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts and the Disciplining Role of Board Appointments	15
Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements	14
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy	14
Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence	14
Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família	14
Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients	14
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School	13
Refugee Benefit Cuts	13
Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project	12
Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries	12
Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador	12
Front Matter	11
The Returns to Public Library Investment	11
Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation	11
Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts	11
Front Matter	11
Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation	11
The Not-So-Uniform Effects of Trade Secret Protection on Business Entry	11
Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany	10
Childhood Housing and Adult Outcomes: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing	10
Front Matter	10
The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap	10
Front Matter	10
Identity in Court Decision-Making	10
Optimal Internality Taxation of Product Attributes	9
Cooking, Health, and Daily Exposure to Pollution Spikes	9
Voting for Democracy: Chile’s Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation	9
The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments	9
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments	9
International Transmission of Inequality through Trade	9
Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks	9
Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology‑Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?	8
Adjustable Product Attributes, Indirect Network Effects, and Subsidy Design: The Case of Electric Vehicles	8
No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance	8
Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy	8
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities	8
Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why?	8
Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs	8
Depreciating Licenses	8
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	8
Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records	8
Multinationals’ Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens	8
Front Matter	7
Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California	7
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality	7
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities	7
Exploring Residual Profit Allocation	7
Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-Up of Naloxone	7

Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations	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
Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation	7
School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order	7
Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation	6
The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from US States	6
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution	6
Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan	6
Does Health-Care Consolidation Harm Patients? Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures	6
Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes	6
Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras	6
Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions	6
The Making of Civic Virtues:A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries	6
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans	6
Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance	6
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes	6
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality	5
Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China	5
The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities	5
Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations	5
Sin Taxes and Self-Control	5
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery	5
Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records	5
Public Financing and Racial Disparities: Does a Rising Tide Always Lift All Boats?	5
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market	5
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work	5
Hacked to Pieces? The Effects of Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals and Patients	4
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply	4
Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change	4
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts	4
The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid	4
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care	4
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
Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies	4
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand	4
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences	4
Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement	4
Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools	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
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices	4
Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime	4
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency	3
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force	3
Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation	3
Should College be “Free”? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial	3
Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform	3
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations	3
Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices	3
Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity	3
Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment	3
State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System	3
Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses	3
Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions	3
The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax	3
Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System	3
Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment	3
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers	3
Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India’s Public Distribution System	3
Vertical Integration and Cream Skimming of Profitable Referrals: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities	3
Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?	3
The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil	3
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment	3
Insecurity and Firm Displacement: Evidence from Afghan Corporate Phone Records	3