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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival129
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education109
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early-Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes81
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration64
Front Matter52
Front Matter49
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study45
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years44
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences37
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies37
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession36
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market35
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions32
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?30
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data28
Front Matter26
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 Women23
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks22
Marriage Search, Gender Norms and Tradeoffs21
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation21
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity19
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics19
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups18
Front Matter17
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction17
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks17
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit17
The Effect of Child Support on Fathers’ Labor Supply16
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth16
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?15
Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance15
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers14
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?13
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions13
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up13
The Decline in Rent Sharing13
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil13
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?12
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities12
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom12
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records12
Front Matter11
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?11
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan11
Front Matter11
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China11
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants11
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement11
H. Gregg Lewis Prize10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets10
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy10
How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Work? Exploring the Role of Commuting and Personal Transportation10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility10
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences9
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?8
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital8
Jacob Mincer Award8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity8
Edward P. Lazear Prize8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility8
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm7
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings7
Immigrants’ Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe7
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States6
In the Land of AKM: Explaining the Dynamics of Wage Inequality in France6
The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching6
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment6
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data6
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments6
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States6
Searching with Friends6
Front Matter5
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students5
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru5
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency5
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections5
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting5
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data5
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor5
Estimating the Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of WWII Using Bunching5
Officers of the Society5
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare5
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality4
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills4
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D4
Front Matter4
Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives4
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation4
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates4
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment4
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning4
Erratum3
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks3
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization3
Talent Management: The Role of Bosses3
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major3
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch3
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach3
Jacob Mincer Award3
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers3
When is Discrimination Unfair?3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand3
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?2
The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution2
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States2
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size2
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting2
Robots and Workers2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments2
Front Matter2
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching2
Labor Supply within the Firm2
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile2
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage2
Front Matter2
Preventing School Dropout at Scale: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala2
Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan2
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20171
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?1
Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States: Trends, Correlates, and Other Interesting Facts1
University Loans and Grants: Effects on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes1
Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales1
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap1
Front Matter1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach1
Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance1
Why do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?1
Sherwin Rosen Prize1
Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development1
Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach1
Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants1
Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting1
Jacob Mincer Award1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China1
The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China1
The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University1
The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime1
Workers’ Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk1
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