OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	59
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	42
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	42
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	39
Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices	39
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	38
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	33
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	30
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	30
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	30
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918	30
Family Formation and Crime	27
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	25
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	24
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	24
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	23
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	23
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	22
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	22
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	20
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	18
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	18
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	18
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	17
Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	15

Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	15
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	15
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	14
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	14
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	14
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	14
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	14
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	13
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	13
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	13
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	12
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	12
Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records	12
The Health Effects of Prison	12
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	12
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	12
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	11
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	11
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	11
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	11
The Political Premium of Television Celebrity	11
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	11
High School Majors and Future Earnings	11
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	10
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	10
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	10
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	10
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	10
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	9
Front Matter	9
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	9
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	9
Front Matter	9
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	8
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	8
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	8
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	8
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	8
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	8
Front Matter	7
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	7
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	7
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	7
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	7
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	7
Infrastructure Costs	7
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	7
Location, Location, Location	6
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	6
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	6

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	6
Front Matter	6
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	6
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	5
Minority Salience and Political Extremism	5
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	5
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Collateralized Marriage	5
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	5
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	5
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	5
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	5
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	5
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	5
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	5
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	5
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	4
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	4
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	4
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	4
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	4
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	4
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	4
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	4
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	4
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	4
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	4
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	4
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	4
Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act	4
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration	4
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	4
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	4
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	4
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	4
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	4
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	4
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	4
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	3
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	3
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	3
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	3
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	3
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	3
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	3
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	3
Front Matter	3
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	3
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	3
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	3
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	3
Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China	3
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	3
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	3
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa	3
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	3