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title: "Welfare effects research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “welfare effects” appeared in 1,049 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (920), finance (73) and operations research (32)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “welfare effects” appeared in 1,049 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (920), finance (73) and operations research (32). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# Papers on “welfare effects”

Research on “welfare effects” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “welfare effects” appeared in 1,049 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (920), finance (73) and operations research (32).
- 109 of them were published in 2025, against 108 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre for Economic Policy Research (14), International Monetary Fund (9) and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Modelling (34), Journal of International Economics (23) and European Economic Review (20).
- The most-cited of them is “The economic effects of density: A synthesis” (Journal of Urban Economics, 2019), with 292 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 96 | 88 | 90 | 89 | 93 | 91 | 89 | 103 | 88 | 93 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 108 | 98 | 103 | 97 | 103 | 106 | 98 | 120 | 109 | 107 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 34 |
| 2 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 20 |
| 4 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Industrial Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-industrial-organization.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 9 |
| 4 | Tinbergen Institute | 9 |
| 5 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [ETH Zurich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/eth-zurich.md) | 7 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 6 |
| 9 | [Universitat de Barcelona](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universitat-de-barcelona.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [University of Oxford](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-oxford.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 124 |
| 2 | China | 80 |
| 3 | Germany | 59 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 5 | Japan | 32 |
| 6 | Canada | 28 |
| 7 | Spain | 26 |
| 8 | Italy | 24 |
| 9 | France | 22 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 22 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 22 |
| 2 | trade liberalization | 17 |
| 3 | overlapping generations model | 16 |
| 4 | [consumer surplus](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/consumer-surplus.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 11 |
| 8 | trade policy | 11 |
| 9 | [carbon pricing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-pricing.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 292 | 3.2 | [The economic effects of density: A synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.04.006) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 2019-04-18 | Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Elisabetta Pietrostefani |
| 2 | 278 | 2.8 | [Does contract farming improve welfare? A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.08.018) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2018-09-05 | Marc F. Bellemare, Jeffrey R. Bloem |
| 3 | 251 | 2.8 | [Sustainable development goal indicators: Analyzing trade-offs and complementarities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.026) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2019-06-14 | Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess |
| 4 | 199 | 1.7 | [When more is less: Limited consideration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2017.04.004) | [Journal of Economic Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-theory.md) | 2017-04-25 | Juan Sebastián Lleras, Yusufcan Masatlıoĝlu, Daisuke Nakajima et al. |
| 5 | 193 | 3.4 | [Central bank digital currency in an open economy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.02.001) | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 2022-02-08 | Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Arnaud Mehl, Livio Stracca |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “welfare effects”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/welfare-effects

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-welfare-effects,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “welfare effects”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/welfare-effects}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).