OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme	53
Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh	46
Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records	42
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	32
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	27
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	27
Temperature, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India	26
Uber versus Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View	25
Subsidies and the African Green Revolution: Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique	25
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	25
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times	24
Subways and Road Congestion	24
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	23
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	21
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	20
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	20
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment	19
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya	18
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	18
Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb	18
Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education	17
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	16
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	16
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	16
The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption	15

The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income	15
A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?	15
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	14
DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement	13
Minority Salience and Political Extremism	12
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	11
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	11
Temperature, Worker Productivity, and Adaptation: Evidence from Survey Data Production	11
Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery Using Phone-Based Monitoring	11
Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel	10
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	10
Physician Practice Organization and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes	10
Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households	10
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration	10
The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders	10
Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors	10
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes	10
Breastfeeding and Child Development	10
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	10
The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States	10
Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance	10
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	9
The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions	9
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	9
Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	9
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	9
Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs?	8
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	8
Infrastructure Costs	8
Peer Effects in Product Adoption	8
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	8
Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India	8
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	7
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	7
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	7
Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan	7
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	7
When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution	7
Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market	7
Using Nonlinear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test	6
Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades	6
The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intrafamily Expertise	6
The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade	6
A Dose of Managed Care: Controlling Drug Spending in Medicaid	6
Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health	6
Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs	6
Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism	6
The Black-White Gap in Noncognitive Skills among Elementary School Children	6
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	5
The Health Effects of Prison	5

Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration	5
Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks	5
Political Fragmentation and Government Stability: Evidence from Local Governments in Spain	5
Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and the Local Economic Benefits of Resource Extraction	5
High School Majors and Future Earnings	5
Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China	5
When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women’s College Major Choices	4
Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications	4
Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?	4
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	4
Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline	4
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	4
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	4
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	4
The Impact of Income-Driven Repayment on Student Borrower Outcomes	4
Pathways into Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Practice Variation in Emergency Departments	4
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	4
Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure	4
Predistribution versus Redistribution: Evidence from France and the United States	4
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	4
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh	4
Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs	4
Finally a Smoking Gun? Compensating Differentials and the Introduction of Smoking Bans	3
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	3
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	3
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	3
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	3
Increasing the Cost of Informal Employment: Evidence from Mexico	3
Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills	3
How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy	3
Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration	3
Discrimination in Times of Crises and the Role of the Media	3
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	3
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	3
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain	3
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	3
Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe	3
Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation	3
Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis	2
Income Segregation and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy	2
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918	2
At What Level Should One Cluster Standard Errors in Paired and Small-Strata Experiments?	2
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	2
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	2
The Impact of Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises on Workers	2
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	2
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	2
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	2
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	2
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	2
When Do Politicians Appeal Broadly? The Economic Consequences of Electoral Rules in Brazil	2
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	2
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	2
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	2
The Political Premium of Television Celebrity	2
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	2
Wage Stagnation and the Decline of Standardized Pay Rates, 1974–1991	2
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	2