OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	337
Front Matter	97
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	58
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	51
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	50
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	50
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	43
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	42
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	40
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	36
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	34
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	33
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	33
Front Matter	33
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	26
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	26
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	26
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	25
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	25
Childcare over the Business Cycle	24
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	23
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	23

Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	22
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	22
Front Matter	21
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	21
The Decline in Rent Sharing	20
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	20
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	20
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	20
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	19
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	18
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	17
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	17
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	17
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	17
Front Matter	16
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	16
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	16
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	16
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	15
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	14
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	14
Rent Sharing within Firms	14
Front Matter	14
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	13
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	13
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	13
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	12
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	12
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	12
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	11
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	11
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	10
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	10
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	9
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	9
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	9
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8
Jacob Mincer Award	8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	8
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	8
Edward P. Lazear Prize	8
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.	7
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	7

Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States	7
Searching with Friends	7
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment	7
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency	6
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data	6
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting	6
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare	6
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015	5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting	5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections	5
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	5
Officers of the Society	5
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	5
Front Matter	5
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data	5
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	4
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	4
Motivating Employees through Career Paths	3
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation	3
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	3
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch	3
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment	3
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?	3
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	3
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives	3
Jacob Mincer Award	3
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills	3
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	3
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	3
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	3
Front Matter	3
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	2
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks	2
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	2
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers	2
Front Matter	2
US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings	2
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations	2
When is Discrimination Unfair?	2
Jacob Mincer Award	2
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data	2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	2
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	2
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach	2
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard	2
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom	2
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy	1
Labor Supply within the Firm	1
Sherwin Rosen Prize	1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market	1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance	1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor	1
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law	1
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies	1
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	1
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile	1
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan	1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	1
Violence and Human Capital Investments	1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover	1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs	1
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses	1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	1
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	1
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?	1
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms	1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s	1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China	1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach	1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality	1
Jacob Mincer Award	1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?	1
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting	1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections	1
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching	1