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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	58
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	39
Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices	38
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	38
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	37
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	36
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	30
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	30
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	29
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	28
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918	28
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	23
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	23
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	23
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	21
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	21
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	19
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	19
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920	18
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	18
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	17
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	16
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	15

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	14
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	14
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	13
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	13
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	13
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
Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records	12
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	12
The Health Effects of Prison	12
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	12
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	12
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	11
The Political Premium of Television Celebrity	11
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	11
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	10
High School Majors and Future Earnings	10
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	10
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	10
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	9
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	9
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	9
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	9
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	9
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	9
Front Matter	8
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	8
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	8
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	8
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	8
Front Matter	8
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	7
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	7
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	7
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	7
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	7
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	7
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	7
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	7
Infrastructure Costs	7
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	6
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	6
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	6
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	6
Front Matter	6
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	5
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	5

Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	5
Front Matter	5
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	5
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	5
Minority Salience and Political Extremism	5
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	5
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	5
Location, Location, Location	5
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	5
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	5
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	4
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	4
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	4
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	4
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	4
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	4
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	4
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	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
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	4
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	4
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh	4
Collateralized Marriage	4
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	4
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	4
Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act	3
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	3
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	3
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	3
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	3
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration	3
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	3
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	3
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	3
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	3
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	3
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	3
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	3
Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China	3
Front Matter	3
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	3
Front Matter	2
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	2
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	2
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	2
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	2
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	2
Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills	2
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	2
Front Matter	2
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa	2
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	2
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	2
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	2
The Evolution of Local Labor Markets after Recessions	2
Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles	2
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	2
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	2
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	2
Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture	2