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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	337
Front Matter	97
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	58
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	51
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	50
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	50
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	43
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	42
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	40
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	36
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	34
Front Matter	33
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	33
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	33
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	26
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	26
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	25
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	25
Childcare over the Business Cycle	24
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	23
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	23

Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	22
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	21
Front Matter	21
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	20
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	20
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	20
The Decline in Rent Sharing	20
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	19
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	18
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	17
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	17
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	17
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	17
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	16
Front Matter	16
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	16
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	16
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	15
Front Matter	14
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	14
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	14
Rent Sharing within Firms	14
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	13
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
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	12
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	12
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	12
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	11
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	11
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	10
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	9
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	9
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	9
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	8
Edward P. Lazear Prize	8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8
Jacob Mincer Award	8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	8