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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	15
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	14
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	12
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment	12
Integration or Isolation?	11
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	11
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	10
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	10
Local Labor Markets and Selection into the Teaching Profession	10
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
A Mighty Toll	9
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	9
Premium or Penalty?	9
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks?	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Air Pollution and Cognition in Children	7
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	7
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	7
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	7

No Place Like Home	6
Big Sisters	6
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	6
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities	6
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	6
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	6
Algorithms and Decision-making	6
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	5
Schools as Safety Nets	5
Owning the Agent	5
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	5
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	5
Too Scared for School?	4
Political Competition Over Life and Death	4
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	4
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
Labor Market Institutions and Wage-Setting Power	4
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	4
Bayesian learning in the presence of misreporting and endogeneity	4
Effects of the Child Protection System on Parents	4
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	4
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	4
The Effects of Education on Health	4
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	4
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	4
Television and the Labor Supply	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	3
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring*	3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
Unexpected colonial returns	3
Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home	3
The Power of Lakshmi	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions	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
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	3
Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation	3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	3
Understanding Gender Match Effects in Higher Education	3
Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Older Adult Mortality in Rural Mexico	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	2
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	2

Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms	2
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	2
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	2
Birds of a Feather Earn Together	2
Beyond Nature and Nurture	2
Crossing Borders	2
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	2
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	2
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	2
Quality and selection in regulated professions	2
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness	2
Prescription for Disaster	2
Commodity Revenue Shocks and Mortality	2
Where versus What	2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?	2
Cash Welfare and Health Spending	2
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	2
Employers’ Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
The Economics of Child Mental Health	1
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	1
Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor	1
What Knox Achieved	1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
A Watershed Moment	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	1
The Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance in Argentina	1
Is TRAP a Trap?	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges	1
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education?	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	1
Fatherless	1
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings	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
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	1
Relying on Private Firms as Safety Net Providers: WIC Participant Responses to Vendor Disqualification	1
Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding	1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	1
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 59	1
Safe from Harm?	1
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	1
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	1
What Can Trends in Emergency Department Visits Tell Us About Child Mental Health?	1
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1