Journal of Labor Economics

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival473
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education117
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes79
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies68
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes57
Front Matter49
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years42
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration41
Front Matter40
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study38
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences35
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children31
Front Matter30
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions29
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession29
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market29
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data27
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?27
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators27
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women24
Front Matter24
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity23
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks23
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation23
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups22
Childcare over the Business Cycle20
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks20
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes20
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction19
Front Matter18
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit17
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers17
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?16
The Decline in Rent Sharing16
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth15
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?15
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions14
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting14
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil14
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up13
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records13
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities13
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom13
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?12
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement12
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers12
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South12
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China12
Rent Sharing within Firms11
Front Matter11
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan11
Front Matter11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize10
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia10
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets10
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility10
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
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital9
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy9
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility9
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?8
Edward P. Lazear Prize8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining8
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