OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	59
How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870	45
Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending	45
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	41
Rising Concentration of Household Shopping, Superstar Firms, and Implications for Retail Markups	40
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	36
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	35
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	31
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	31
Family Formation and Crime	29
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	29
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	28
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	27
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	26
Divine Policy: The Impact of Religion in Government	25
How Cable News Reshaped Local Government	22
The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act	22
Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries	21
The Paradox of Innovation Nondisclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts	21
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	20
Trade Disruptions and Reshoring	20
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	20
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
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	19

The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement	19
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location	19
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	19
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care	17
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay	17
The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?	17
Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets	17
Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States	16
Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	16
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	16
The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments	15
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	15
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	15
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States	15
The Health Effects of Prison	15
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	15
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System^†	15
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	14
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	14
Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes	14
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	14
High School Majors and Future Earnings	14
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	14
Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes	13
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	13
Front Matter	13
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	13
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply	13
The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions^†	13
Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout	12
Down to the Wire: Leveraging Technology to Improve Electric Utility Cost Recovery	11
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health	11
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	11
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China	11
Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts	11
Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices	11
Infrastructure Costs	10
Front Matter	10
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility	10
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	10
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan	10
Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills	10
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation	10
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment	10
Improving Women’s Mental Health during a Pandemic	9
Ethnic Diversity, Historical Economic Exchange, and Development: Evidence from Andean Peru	9
Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	9
The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence from Tinder	9
Real-World Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children	9
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	8

Front Matter	8
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	8
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	8
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	8
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Start-ups	8
Location, Location, Location	8
Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime	8
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	8
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	7
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	7
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	7
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	7
Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark	7
Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho	7
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	7
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	6
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	6
Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	6
Collateralized Marriage	6
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	6
Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit	6
Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India	6
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	6
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	6
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	6
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	6
Highway to Hitler	6
Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection	6
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism	5
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets	5
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes	5
Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation	5
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	5
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	5
The Value of Leisure Synchronization	5
Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa	5
Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development	5
Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act	5
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	5
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	5
How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets	5
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	5
Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence From the Bangladesh Civil Service	5