OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	53
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	48
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	42
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	42
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	42
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	40
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	34
Family Formation and Crime	32
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	31
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	31
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	29
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	27
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	27
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	26
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	26
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	25
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	25
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	22
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	22
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	21
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	21
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	21
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	19
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	19
Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	19

Emotions and Risk Attitudes	18
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	16
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	16
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	16
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	16
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay	15
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	15
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	14
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	14
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	14
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	13
The Health Effects of Prison	13
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System^†	13
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	12
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	12
High School Majors and Future Earnings	12
The Political Premium of Television Celebrity	12
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	12
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	12
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	12
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	12
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	11
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	11
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	11
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	11
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	11
Front Matter	10
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	10
Front Matter	10
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	10
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	10
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	10
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	10
The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions^†	10
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	9
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	9
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	8
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	8
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	8
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	8
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	8
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	7
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	7
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	7
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	7
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	7
Infrastructure Costs	7
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	7
Front Matter	7
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	7

Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark	7
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	7
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	7
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	7
Location, Location, Location	7
Front Matter	7
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	6
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	6
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	6
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	6
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	6
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	6
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	6
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	5
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	5
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	5
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	5
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	5
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	5
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	5
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	5
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	5
Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act	5
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	5
Collateralized Marriage	5
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit	5
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	5
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	5
Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence From the Bangladesh Civil Service	5
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	5
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	5
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	5
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	4
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	4
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	4
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	4
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	4
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	4
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	4
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	4
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	4
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	4
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	4
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	4
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	4
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	4
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	4
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	4
Front Matter	4
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	4
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	4
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	4