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

Article	Citations
Front Matter	51
Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending	46
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	45
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	45
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	36
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	36
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	34
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	32
Family Formation and Crime	31
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	30
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	28
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	28
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	27
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	27
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	26
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	23
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	23
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	23
The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act	23
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	23
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	22
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	21
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	19
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	19
Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	19

The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	17
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	17
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	17
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	16
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	16
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	16
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	16
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	16
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	16
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay	15
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System^†	14
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	14
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	14
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	13
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	13
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	13
The Health Effects of Prison	13
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	13
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	13
High School Majors and Future Earnings	12
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	12
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	12
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	12
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	12
The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions^†	11
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	11
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	11
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	11
Front Matter	11
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	11
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	10
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	10
Front Matter	10
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	9
Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout	9
Down to the Wire: Leveraging Technology to Improve Electric Utility Cost Recovery	9
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	9
Infrastructure Costs	9
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	9
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	8
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	8
Front Matter	8
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	8
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	8
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	8
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	8
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	7
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	7
Front Matter	7
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	7

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