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

Article	Citations
Front Matter	55
Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending	49
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	48
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	46
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	41
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	38
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	37
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	34
Rising Concentration of Household Shopping, Superstar Firms, and Implications for Retail Markups	32
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	32
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	31
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	29
Family Formation and Crime	28
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	28
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	26
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	26
The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act	26
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	25
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	25
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	23
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	23
Divine Policy: The Impact of Religion in Government	22
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	20

Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	19
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	19
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	18
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	18
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	18
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	18
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	17
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	17
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay	16
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	16
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	15
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	15
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	15
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	15
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	14
The Health Effects of Prison	14
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	14
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System^†	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	14
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	14
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	13
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	13
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	13
High School Majors and Future Earnings	13
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	13
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	12
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	12
Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout	11
Front Matter	11
Front Matter	11
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	11
The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions^†	11
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	11
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	11
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	11
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	11
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	10
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	9
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	9
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	9
Front Matter	9
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	9
Infrastructure Costs	9
Down to the Wire: Leveraging Technology to Improve Electric Utility Cost Recovery	9
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	9
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	9
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	9
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	9
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	9

Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	8
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	8
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	8
Front Matter	8
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	8
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	8
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	8
Location, Location, Location	8
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	7
Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark	7
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	7
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	7
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	7
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	7
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	7
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	7
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	7
Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime	7
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	6
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	6
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	6
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	6
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit	6
Collateralized Marriage	6
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	6
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	6
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	6
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	6
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	5
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	5
Highway to Hitler	5
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	5
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	5
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	5
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	5
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	5
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	5
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	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
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	5
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	5
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	5
Front Matter	5
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	5
Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence From the Bangladesh Civil Service	5
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	5
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	5
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	4
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	4
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	4
Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data^†	4
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	4
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	4
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	4
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	4
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	4
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	4
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	4
Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills	4