Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Labor Economics is 23. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival473
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education117
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes79
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies68
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes57
Front Matter49
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years42
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration41
Front Matter40
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study38
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences35
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children31
Front Matter30
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions29
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession29
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market29
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data27
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?27
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators27
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women24
Front Matter24
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks23
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation23
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity23
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