OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Human Resources is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	40
Monopsony in the Labor Market	36
Do Funds for More Teachers Improve Student Outcomes?	29
Training teachers for diversity awareness	21
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	17
Effects of falling into poverty on child mental and physical health	16
Suddenly Married	16
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	15
Occupational Licensing and the Healthcare Labor Market	14
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	13
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	13
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	11
Too Scared for School? Effects of Terrorism on Students’ Achievement	11
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	11
Do Administrative and Survey Data Tell the Same Impact Story? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants 1.0 Impact Study	11
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective	10
Clearing Up Transfer Admissions Standards	10
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	9
Human Capital Development	9
Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China	9
Political Competition Over Life and Death	8
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?	8
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes	8
Television and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK	8
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	8

The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	8
Admissions Policies, Cohort Composition, and Academic Success	7
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	7
COVID-19 Learning loss and recovery	7
Does the Gender Wage Gap Influence Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil?	7
Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives	6
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	6
Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap	6
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	6
Remedial Education	6
Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships	6
Selecting Talent	6
STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum	6
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?	6
Property Division upon Divorce and Household Decisions	6
Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic	5
Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages	5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	5
Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days	5
Declining Outmigration and Local Labor Markets	5
Effects of School-Based Mental Health Services on Youth Outcomes	5
Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation	5
The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health	5
Supplemental Security Income for Children, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well‐Being	5
Labor Market Effects of Open Borders	4
Beyond Nature and Nurture	4
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	4
Testing	4
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	4
The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Saving Choices	4
Age Discrimination in Hiring	4
Whose Help Is on the Way?	4
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon	4
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	3
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	3
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	3
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	3
Risk Attitudes, Investment Behavior, and Linguistic Variation	3
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	3
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	3
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	3
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	3
The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes	3
Timing Matters	3
Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement	3
War-Driven Permanent Emigration, Sex Ratios, and Female Labor Force Participation	3
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	3
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	3
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	3
Agricultural Productivity and Fertility Rates	3

Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start	3
Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market?	2
The Effect of Fraternity Moratoriums on Alcohol Offenses and Sexual Assaults	2
Selected Fertility and Racial Inequality	2
The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence	2
Investing in Health and Public Safety	2
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	2
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	2
Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments	2
Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders?	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy: Impact of Credit on Child Labor in Bangladesh	2
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	2
The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread	2
Does Re-Imprisonment for Technical Violations Prevent Crime?	2
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	2
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”: Social Networks and Job Finding at Community Colleges	2
Do Sectoral Training Programs Reduce Arrests?	2
Increasing Retirement Savings through Access Points and Persuasive Messages	2
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	2
Firm and Worker Responses to Extensions in Paid Maternity Leave	2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance	2
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	2
Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling	2
Labor Monopsony and the Limits of the Law	2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	2
To What Extent Are Trends in Teen Mental Health Driven by Changes in Reporting?	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	2
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities	1
Boom Town Business Dynamics	1
The Economics of Child Mental Health	1
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina	1
Major-Occupation Specificity and College Skill Production	1
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	1
Adverse Impacts of Mental Health Needs Assessment on Jail Outcomes	1
Specialization in Criminal Courts	1
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?	1
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Enforcement	1
School Choice and Educational Mobility	1
Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality	1
Fighting Crime in the Cradle	1
Publish or Perish	1
An Experimental Evaluation of Culturally Enriching Field Trips	1
Where versus What	1
Victimization and Skill Accumulation	1
The Impact of NAFTA on U.S. Local Labor Market Employment	1
Accounting for Intergenerational Educational Immobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector	1
Taken by Storm	1
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	1
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings	1
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	1
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	1
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	1
Teamwork and Human Capital Development	1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	1
The Growing Importance of Social Tasks in High-Paying Occupations	1
Monopsony in Movers	1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	1
What Knox Achieved	1
A Mighty Toll	1
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	1
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	1
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	1
Obstacles on the Road to School	1
Multigenerational Persistence	1
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	1
The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Employment	1