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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	51
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	44
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	42
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	42
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	40
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	38
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	32
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	31
Family Formation and Crime	31
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	30
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	26
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	26
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	26
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	25
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	25
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	25
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	22
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	22
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	21
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	20
Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment	19
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	19
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	19
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	18
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	17

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

Location, Location, Location	6
Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark	6
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	6
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	6
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	6
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	6
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	6
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	5
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	5
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	5
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	5
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	5
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	5
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	5
Collateralized Marriage	5
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	5
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	5
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	5
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	5
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	5
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit	5
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	5
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	4
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	4
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	4
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	4
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	4
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	4
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	4
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	4
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	4
Front Matter	4
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	4
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	4
Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence From the Bangladesh Civil Service	4
Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act	4
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	4
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	4
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	4
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	4
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	4
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	4
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	4
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	3
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	3
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	3
Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data^†	3
Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles	3
Front Matter	3
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	3
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	3
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	3
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	3
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	3
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	3
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa	3
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	3
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	3
Front Matter	3