Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence301
Optimal Allocation of Seats in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence from a Job Training Program89
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States55
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data49
Front Matter47
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers41
Front Matter41
The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the U.S.41
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching38
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study38
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children36
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru34
Searching with Friends32
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.32
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?30
The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility29
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences27
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses27
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States25
Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing25
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration24
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility23
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education22
Front Matter21
Front Matter21
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival21
The Decline in Rent Sharing20
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size20
Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools?20
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes19
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies19
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting18
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt18
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes17
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment17
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador16
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act16
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples15
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work15
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?15
The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market15
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes15
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?14
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies14
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency13
Officers of the Society13
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare13
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas13
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records13
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions13
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda12
Labor Supply within the Firm12
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms12
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?11
Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States11
Front Matter11
­­Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment11
Officers of the Society10
SOLE 2022/27th Annual Meetings10
Geographic Mobility of Youth and Spatial Gaps in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities9
Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills9
Front Matter8
Overview: Wage Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century8
Officers of the Society8
Officers of the Society8
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance8
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting8
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law8
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections7
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment7
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development7
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions7
Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough7
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example7
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom7
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections7
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up7
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