Jonas Hjort

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 857 citations indexed

About

Jonas Hjort is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonas Hjort has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 857 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 5 papers in Accounting and 4 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Jonas Hjort's work include Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 papers), Economic Policies and Impacts (3 papers) and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 papers). Jonas Hjort is often cited by papers focused on Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 papers), Economic Policies and Impacts (3 papers) and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 papers). Jonas Hjort collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Jonas Hjort's co-authors include Jonas Poulsen, Miriam Wüst, Mikkel Sølvsten, Lin Tian, Eric Werker, Diana Moreira, Gautam Rao, Gianmarco León, Michael Best and David Szakonyi and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Jonas Hjort

17 papers receiving 781 citations

Hit Papers

The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa
    2019 358 citations Jonas Hjort, Jonas Poulsen American Economic Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonas Hjort United States 11 410 250 150 106 99 22 857
Hernán Winkler United States 15 352 0.9× 405 1.6× 65 0.4× 38 0.4× 50 0.5× 64 802
Phanindra V. Wunnava United States 17 442 1.1× 339 1.4× 41 0.3× 221 2.1× 65 0.7× 52 986
Lisa Dettling United States 16 591 1.4× 310 1.2× 105 0.7× 25 0.2× 120 1.2× 41 1.2k
Martı́n A. Rossi Argentina 15 519 1.3× 424 1.7× 23 0.2× 212 2.0× 63 0.6× 39 1.2k
Jaison R. Abel United States 16 452 1.1× 198 0.8× 57 0.4× 54 0.5× 54 0.5× 51 754
John V. Winters United States 19 604 1.5× 460 1.8× 163 1.1× 13 0.1× 116 1.2× 108 1.4k
Stefan Bauernschuster Germany 12 257 0.6× 338 1.4× 31 0.2× 63 0.6× 125 1.3× 40 841
Mikal Skuterud Canada 15 489 1.2× 480 1.9× 63 0.4× 43 0.4× 69 0.7× 33 987
Ahmed Galal Egypt 9 258 0.6× 111 0.4× 67 0.4× 193 1.8× 32 0.3× 26 761
Mthuli Ncube United Kingdom 16 467 1.1× 167 0.7× 25 0.2× 87 0.8× 26 0.3× 82 946

Countries citing papers authored by Jonas Hjort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonas Hjort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonas Hjort

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonas Hjort. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonas Hjort based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jonas Hjort. Jonas Hjort is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2025). Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals. American Economic Review. 116(1). 52–87.
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Hjort, Jonas & Lin Tian. (2025). The Economic Impact of Internet Connectivity in Developing Countries. Annual Review of Economics. 17(1). 99–124. 3 indexed citations
3.
Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2025). Ethnic Investing and the Value of Firms. Management Science.
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Best, Michael, Jonas Hjort, & David Szakonyi. (2023). Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness. American Economic Review. 113(8). 2121–2167. 21 indexed citations
5.
Almunia, Miguel, et al.. (2022). Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from “Missing” Transactions in Uganda. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 106(1). 256–265. 13 indexed citations
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Almunia, Miguel, et al.. (2021). Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from.
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Almunia, Miguel, et al.. (2021). Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from "Missing" Transactions in Uganda. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Goff, Leonard, et al.. (2021). Pure-Chance Jobs versus a Labor Market: The Impact on Careers of a Random Serial Dictatorship for First Job Seekers. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 111. 470–475. 1 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2021). How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities. American Economic Review. 111(5). 1442–1480. 46 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas & Lin Tian. (2021). The Economic Impact of Internet Connectivity in Developing Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 23 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2020). Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters. Journal of Political Economy. 128(9). 3570–3625. 32 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2020). Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas & Jonas Poulsen. (2019). The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa. American Economic Review. 109(3). 1032–1079. 358 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2018). Interlinked firms and the consequences of piecemeal regulation. Journal of the European Economic Association. 17(3). 876–916. 9 indexed citations
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Best, Michael, Jonas Hjort, & David Szakonyi. (2017). Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas, et al.. (2015). Ebola, jobs and economic activity in Liberia. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 70(3). 271–277. 50 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas. (2014). Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 129(4). 1899–1946. 188 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas. (2013). Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Hjort, Jonas. (2009). Pre‐colonial culture, post‐colonial economic success? The Tswana and the African economic miracle. The Economic History Review. 63(3). 688–709. 22 indexed citations
20.
Hjort, Jonas. (2006). Citizen funds and Dutch Disease in developing countries. Resources Policy. 31(3). 183–191. 33 indexed citations

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