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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies	94
The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks	70
Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term	55
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation	45
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples	39
Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading	37
Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment	34
High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School	34
State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data	31
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	28
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data	25
Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?	24
Adjusting to Globalization in Germany	24
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects	23
Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes	22
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	22
The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees	21
Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example	21
School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification	21
Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes	21
The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States	20
Violence and Human Capital Investments	20
The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites	20
How Do Employers Use Compensation History? Evidence from a Field Experiment	19
Machine Labor	18

Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?	18
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94	17
Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match	16
Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle	15
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard	15
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	15
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	15
How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility	14
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	14
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment	14
Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University: Evidence from Chile	14
Constraints on Hours within the Firm	14
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	14
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	13
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	13
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	13
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	13
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses	13
Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance	13
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	13
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	12
How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail	12
The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors	12
Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms	11
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	11
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act	11
Head Start and the Distribution of Long-Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes	11
Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-Run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia	11
The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China	11
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences	11
World War II, the Baby Boom, and Employment: County-Level Evidence	10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	10
Why Is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education	10
Motivating Employees through Career Paths	10
Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance	10
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed	10
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	9
Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome the Free-Rider Problem	9
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	9
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015	9
Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation	9
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy	8
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	8
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	8
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders	8
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants	8
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	8
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Female Earnings Inequality: The Changing Role of Family Characteristics and Its Effect on the Extensive and Intensive Margins	7
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment	7

Childcare over the Business Cycle	7
Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful Than Others?	7
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	7
The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects	7
US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings	7
Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South	7
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	7
Testing Means-Tested Aid	6
Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals	6
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China	6
Interpreting Experimental Evidence in the Presence of Postrandomization Events: A Reassessment of the Self-Sufficiency Project	6
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century United States	6
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement	5
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance	5
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	5
World War II and Black Economic Progress	5
A Method for Disentangling Multiple Treatments from a Regression Discontinuity Design	4
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	4
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the United States: A Panel Analysis	4
Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility	4
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	4
The Labor Market Effects of US Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great Recession	4
Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data	4
Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment	4
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	4
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	4
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	4
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	4
Education Transmission and Network Formation	4
The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction	3
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market	3
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes	3
Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay	3
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	3
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work	3
Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients	3
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data	3
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example	3
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	3
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	2
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers	2
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	2
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle	2
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	2
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	2
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	2
The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador	2
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	2
The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior	2
Do less informative college admission exams reduce earnings inequality? Evidence from Colombia	2
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	2
Matching Across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	2
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	2
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	2
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	2
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law	2
Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration	1
Understanding the Effect of Parental Education and Financial Resources on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income	1
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program	1
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence	1
Rent Sharing within Firms	1
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey	1
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	1
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning Throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador	1
Grades and Employer Learning	1
Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms	1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s	1
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor	1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	1
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring	1
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	1
Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity	1
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	1
The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime	1
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	1
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	1
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	1
Labor Supply within the Firm	1
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	1