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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival392
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children109
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education65
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences57
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes51
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies44
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes43
Front Matter39
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years37
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration35
Front Matter35
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study34
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions33
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators28
Front Matter27
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women27
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?27
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data27
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession27
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations26
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions24
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups24
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks24
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes24
Front Matter23
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks23
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics23
Childcare over the Business Cycle23
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction22
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit22
The Decline in Rent Sharing21
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers20
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting20
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?20
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions19
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?19
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?19
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up17
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities17
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement16
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom16
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records16
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South15
Rent Sharing within Firms15
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia14
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?14
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers14
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan13
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs13
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility13
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants13
Front Matter12
Front Matter12
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences11
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy10
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort10
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility9
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools9
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility9
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice8
Edward P. Lazear Prize8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity8
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital8
Jacob Mincer Award8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?8
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States8
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments7
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru7
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment7
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States7
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital6
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting6
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States6
Officers of the Society6
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare6
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data6
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency6
Searching with Friends6
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections5
Motivating Employees through Career Paths5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting5
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students5
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?4
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates4
Jacob Mincer Award3
When is Discrimination Unfair?3
Front Matter3
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major3
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality3
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation3
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D3
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks3
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach3
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard3
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills3
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment3
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning3
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand3
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations3
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation3
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization3
Front Matter3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan2
Front Matter2
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch2
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage2
Front Matter2
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?2
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work2
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?2
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom2
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile2
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy2
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses2
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size2
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies2
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants1
Sherwin Rosen Prize1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China1
The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University1
Education Transmission and Network Formation1
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap1
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach1
Jacob Mincer Award1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20171
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?1
Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States: Trends, Correlates, and Other Interesting Facts1
Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach1
Front Matter1
Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor1
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law1
Labor Supply within the Firm1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?1
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment1
Workers’ Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance1
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