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The Review of Economic Studies is a premier journal in the field of economic research, with a reputation for publishing path-breaking papers in theoretical and applied economics. The quality and influence of research published in the journal is demonstrated by our latest Impact Factor, which shows that articles published in The Review remain highly read and cited by researchers in the field.

Join us in celebrating this continued achievement by reading a collection of some of the most highly cited articles we have published in the past few years. Use this research to support your current work, or get up to date with important discussions in economics. Papers are free to access online until the end of 2021.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway
Marianne Bertrand and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 191–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy032
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40% representation of each gender on the board of public limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings ...
Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes
Christian Dustmann and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 2035–2091, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy047
To estimate the causal effect of refugee migration on voting outcomes in parliamentary and municipal elections in Denmark, our study is the first that addresses the key problem of immigrant sorting by exploiting a policy that assigned refugee immigrants to municipalities on a quasi-random basis. We ...
Social Learning and Incentives for Experimentation and Communication
Ariel BenYishay and A Mushfiq Mobarak
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 3, May 2019, Pages 976–1009, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy039
Low adoption of agricultural technologies holds large productivity consequences for developing countries. Many countries hire agricultural extension agents to communicate with farmers about new technologies, even though a large academic literature has established that information from social ...
Innovation and Top Income Inequality
Philippe Aghion and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 1–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy027
In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-U.S. commuting-zone data to look at the relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive correlations between measures of innovation and top income inequality. We also show that the correlations between ...
The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade
Costas Arkolakis and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 46–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx075
We study the gains from trade liberalization in models with monopolistic competition, firm-level heterogeneity, and variable markups. For a large class of demand functions used in the international macro and trade literature, we derive a parsimonious generalization of the welfare formula in ...

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