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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	34
Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages	18
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes	17
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	17
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	14
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	14
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	14
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	13
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	12
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	12
A Mighty Toll	11
Obstacles on the Road to School	10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
School Choice and Educational Mobility	9
Premium or Penalty?	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	8
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	8
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
The Growing Importance of Social Tasks in High-Paying Occupations	8
Parental Labor Supply	7
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Schools as Safety Nets	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	7

Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	7
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	7
No Place Like Home	7
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	6
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	6
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	6
Television and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK	6
Owning the Agent	6
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	6
Selecting Talent	6
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	6
Political Competition Over Life and Death	6
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	6
STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum	5
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	5
The Effects of Education on Health	5
Too Scared for School?	5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	5
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	5
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	4
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	4
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	4
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	4
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	4
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	4
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	4
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	4
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	3
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	3
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	3
The Power of Lakshmi	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	3
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	3
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms	3
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less	3
Unexpected colonial returns	3

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