OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	422
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	110
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	70
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	63
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	51
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	51
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	45
Front Matter	41
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	40
Front Matter	37
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	36
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	35
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	34
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	31
Front Matter	29
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	28
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	28
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	28
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	27
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	27
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession	26
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	24
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	24
Childcare over the Business Cycle	24
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	24

The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	23
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	23
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	23
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	22
Front Matter	22
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	22
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	21
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	20
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	20
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	20
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	20
The Decline in Rent Sharing	20
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	19
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	19
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	18
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	17
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	16
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil	15
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	15
Rent Sharing within Firms	15
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	15
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	14
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	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
Front Matter	13
Front Matter	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
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	11
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	11
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	10
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	8
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	8
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	8
Edward P. Lazear Prize	8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	8
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment	8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8

Jacob Mincer Award	8
The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching	8