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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	35
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes	18
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	17
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	17
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	17
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	15
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	14
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	12
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	12
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	11
A Mighty Toll	11
Obstacles on the Road to School	10
School Choice and Educational Mobility	9
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	9
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
Premium or Penalty?	9
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	8
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	8
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	8
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	7
No Place Like Home	7

Schools as Safety Nets	7
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Parental Labor Supply	7
Owning the Agent	6
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	6
Television and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK	6
Algorithms and Decision-making	6
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	6
Political Competition Over Life and Death	6
Big Sisters	6
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	6
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	6
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	5
STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum	5
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	5
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	5
The Effects of Education on Health	5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	5
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	5
Too Scared for School?	5
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	5
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	4
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	4
The Power of Lakshmi	4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	4
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	4
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	4
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	4
Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector	4
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	3
Training teachers for diversity awareness	3
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?	3
Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	3
Unexpected colonial returns	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	3
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	3
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less	3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
There’s Always Room for Improvement	3

Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	3
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	3
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms	3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	3
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	2
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy: Impact of Credit on Child Labor in Bangladesh	2
Crossing Borders	2
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Starting Out on the Right Foot	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance	2
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina	2
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	2
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	2
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	2
Beyond Nature and Nurture	2
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	2
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?	2
The Economics of Child Mental Health	2
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	2
A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight	2
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	2
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings	2
Where versus What	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	2
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon	2
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	2
Access to Colleges, Human Capital, and Empowerment of Women	2
Employment Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Base	2
Is TRAP a Trap?	2
Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding	1
Age Discrimination in Hiring	1
Taken by Storm	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Fatherless	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
Relying on Private Firms as Safety Net Providers: WIC Participant Responses to Vendor Disqualification	1
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
What Knox Achieved	1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 59	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty	1
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	1
Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Victims and Their Children	1
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization	1
Health’s Kitchen	1
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education?	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
Detecting and Preventing Cheating in Exams	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Testing	1
Safe from Harm?	1
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	1
Inconsistent Retirement Timing	1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	1
COVID-19 Restrictions Reduced Abortion Clinic Visits, Even in Blue States	1
The Impact of Academic Probation	1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges	1
Victimization and Skill Accumulation	1