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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	59
Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending	45
How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870	42
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	40
Rising Concentration of Household Shopping, Superstar Firms, and Implications for Retail Markups	37
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	35
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	33
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	29
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	29
Family Formation and Crime	29
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	26
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	26
The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act	25
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	25
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	24
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	21
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	21
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	20
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	20
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	20
Divine Policy: The Impact of Religion in Government	20
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	19
Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	19
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	19
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	19

The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	18
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	18
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	17
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement	17
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	16
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	16
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay	16
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	15
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System^†	15
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	15
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	15
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	15
Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States	15
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	15
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	14
The Health Effects of Prison	14
High School Majors and Future Earnings	14
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	14
Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes	14
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	14
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	13
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	13
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	13
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	13
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	13
Front Matter	12
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	12
The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions^†	12
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	12
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	11
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	11
Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout	11
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	11
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	11
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	10
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	10
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	10
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	10
Down to the Wire: Leveraging Technology to Improve Electric Utility Cost Recovery	10
Front Matter	10
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	10
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	10
Infrastructure Costs	10
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	10
Real-World Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children	9
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	9
Ethnic Diversity, Historical Economic Exchange, and Development: Evidence from Andean Peru	9
The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence from Tinder	9
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	9
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	8

Location, Location, Location	8
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	8
Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime	8
Front Matter	8
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	8
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	7
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Start-ups	7
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	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
Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark	7
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	7
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	6
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	6
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit	6
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	6
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	6
Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho	6
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	6
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	6
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	6
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	6
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	6
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	6
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	6
Collateralized Marriage	5
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	5
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	5
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	5
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	5
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	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
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	5
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	5
Highway to Hitler	5
Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection	5
Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence From the Bangladesh Civil Service	5
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	5
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	5
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	4
Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data^†	4
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	4
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	4
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	4
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	4
Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture	4
Front Matter	4
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	4
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	4
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	4
Front Matter	4
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	4
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	4