Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Labor Economics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence301
Optimal Allocation of Seats in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence from a Job Training Program89
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States55
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data49
Front Matter47
The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the U.S.41
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers41
Front Matter41
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study38
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching38
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children36
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru34
Searching with Friends32
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.32
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?30
The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility29
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences27
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses27
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States25
Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing25
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration24
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility23
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education22
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival21
Front Matter21
Front Matter21
Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools?20
The Decline in Rent Sharing20
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size20
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes19
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies19
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt18
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting18
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment17
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes17
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador16
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act16
The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market15
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes15
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples15
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work15
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?15
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies14
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?14
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions13
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency13
Officers of the Society13
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare13
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas13
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records13
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda12
Labor Supply within the Firm12
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms12
­­Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment11
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?11
Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States11
Front Matter11
Officers of the Society10
SOLE 2022/27th Annual Meetings10
Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills9
Geographic Mobility of Youth and Spatial Gaps in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities9
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting8
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law8
Front Matter8
Overview: Wage Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century8
Officers of the Society8
Officers of the Society8
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance8
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom7
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections7
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up7
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections7
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment7
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development7
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions7
Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough7
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example7
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?6
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey6
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital6
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities5
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–20155
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?5
In-Kind Housing Transfers and Labor Supply: A Structural Approach5
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators5
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession5
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed5
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting5
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20174
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 944
Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match4
Judge Effects, Case Characteristics, and Plea Bargaining3
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?3
Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes3
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality3
Front Matter3
Front Matter3
Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data3
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting3
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market3
Front Matter3
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement3
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality3
Jacob Mincer Award3
Rent Sharing within Firms3
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance2
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach2
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?2
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations2
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data2
Front Matter2
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia2
Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals2
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students2
Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data2
Men, Women, and Capital: Estimating Substitution Patterns Using a Size and Gender-Dependent Childcare Policy in Chile2
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs2
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor2
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants2
Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South2
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women2
Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs1
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning1
Front Matter1
Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment1
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan1
Motivating Employees through Career Paths1
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers1
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor1
How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail1
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting1
Violence and Human Capital Investments1
Profits of Prejudiced Algorithms1
From Unemployment to Self-Employment: An Evaluation of Self-Employment Assistance Programs1
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives1
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement1
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China1
Long Social Distancing1
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle1
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs1
The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior1
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders1
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation1
Sherwin Rosen Prize1
Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants1
Testing Means-Tested Aid1
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement1
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences1
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates1
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century United States1
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover1
School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility1
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