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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	22
The Health Effects of In Utero Exposure To Cash Transfers	16
Early-Life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-Term Health and Economic Outcomes	15
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment	14
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	13
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	12
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	12
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	11
Integration or Isolation?	11
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	10
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	10
Local Labor Markets and Selection into the Teaching Profession	10
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	10
A Mighty Toll	10
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	9
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
Premium or Penalty?	9
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	7
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks?	7
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	7
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Mothers’ Sorting into Lower-Paying Firms	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	7

Air Pollution and Cognition in Children	7
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	7
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	6
Algorithms and Decision-making	6
No Place Like Home	6
Corrigendum to “When the Going Gets Tough…Reducing Unemployment Benefits in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”	6
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities	6
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	6
Working From Home and Wage Dynamics	5
Owning the Agent	5
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	5
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	5
Schools as Safety Nets	4
Political Competition Over Life and Death	4
Too Scared for School?	4
Effects of the Child Protection System on Parents	4
Bayesian learning in the presence of misreporting and endogeneity	4
Big Sisters	4
Television and the Labor Supply	4
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	4
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	4
Increased Mortality of White Americans and a Decline in the Health of Cohorts Born After World War II	4
Labor Market Institutions and Wage-Setting Power	4
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
The Effects of Education on Health	4
Can Academic Redshirting Shrink the Education Gender Gap?	3
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	3
Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	3
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	3
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	3
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	3
Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Older Adult Mortality in Rural Mexico	3
Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation	3
The Power of Lakshmi	3
Teacher Testing Standards and the New Teacher Pipeline	3
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	3
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	3
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	3
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring*	3
Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home	3
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	2
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	2
Birds of a Feather Earn Together	2

Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	2
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms	2
Unexpected colonial returns	2
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness	2
Employers’ Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants	2
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	2
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health	2
Crossing Borders	2
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	2
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	2
Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions	2
Quality and selection in regulated professions	2
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	2
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
Prescription for Disaster	2
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Cash Welfare and Health Spending	2
Understanding Gender Match Effects in Higher Education	2
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?	2
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	2
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	2
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	1
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	1
What Can Trends in Emergency Department Visits Tell Us About Child Mental Health?	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
Fortunate Families?	1
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	1
A Watershed Moment	1
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	1
Is TRAP a Trap?	1
Commodity Revenue Shocks and Mortality	1
Where versus What	1
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
The Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance in Argentina	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
Safe from Harm?	1
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
The Economics of Child Mental Health	1
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy	1
Beyond Nature and Nurture	1
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	1
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	1
Fatherless	1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	1
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	1
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	1
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	1
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	1