OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	529
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	121
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	89
Front Matter	72
Front Matter	60
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	50
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	46
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	42
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	41
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	41
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	37
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	36
Front Matter	35
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	31
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	31
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	30
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession	28
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	28
Front Matter	27
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	26
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation	25
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	25

A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	24
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity	24
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	23
Childcare over the Business Cycle	23
Marriage Search, Gender Norms and Tradeoffs	22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	22
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	19
Front Matter	19
The Decline in Rent Sharing	17
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	17
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	17
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	16
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth	16
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	16
The Effect of Child Support on Fathers’ Labor Supply	15
Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance	15
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	15
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	14
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil	14
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	14
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	13
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	13
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	13
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	13
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	13
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	12
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China	12
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	12
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	12
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	11
Front Matter	11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	11
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	11
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	11
Rent Sharing within Firms	11
Front Matter	11
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
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	10
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	10
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	10
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	9
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	9