Journal of Population Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Population Economics is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program76
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India62
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India48
Weighing down the future: long-term effects of childhood obesity on intergenerational mobility32
Do fewer siblings lead to better mental health and subjective well-being? Evidence from China’s family planning policies26
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption25
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?25
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India25
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution21
The impact of shadow education expenditures on fertility rates in South Korea20
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes20
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle20
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany19
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms19
Migration, household services, and urban female labor supply: evidence from China18
Household impacts of child health shocks16
Fertility, son preference, and the disappearing gender gap in literacy/numeracy tests16
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh15
The impact of media coverage of sexual violence on women’s work decisions in rural Bangladesh15
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia14
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets14
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths14
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?14
Estimating treatment effects of the one-child policy: a self-report approach13
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France13
On the economic prospects of non-Western migrants in Europe13
Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data12
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?12
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data11
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities11
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience10
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era10
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys10
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences10
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus10
NIH grant expansion, ancestral diversity, and scientific collaborations in genomics research10
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health10
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment10
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market10
The impact of global warming on obesity10
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China9
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China9
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia9
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China9
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States9
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?9
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance9
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization8
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis8
Too much of a good thing? Using tax incentives to stimulate dual-earner couples8
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services8
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants8
The female happiness paradox8
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates8
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India8
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India8
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?7
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India7
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools7
Brothers, dowry, and spousal quality7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims7
Under pressure: trade competition from low-wage countries and demand for immigrant labor in Italy7
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills7
The role of coresident grandparents in the Asian-white maternal employment gap in the US7
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes6
Are demographic developments undermining intergenerational compacts?6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility6
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration6
Working from home, commuting, and gender6
Counting missing women: a reconciliation of flow and stock measures6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence6
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation6
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis6
Happy citizens trust their rulers5
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?5
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 20195
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives5
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey5
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families5
Age diversity and aggregate productivity5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq5
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender5
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone5
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa5
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China5
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs5
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health5
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective4
Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited4
Family foster care or residential care: the impact of home environment on children raised in state care4
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers4
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up4
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea4
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health4
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans4
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China4
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?4
Right-to-work laws, union decline, and the opioid crisis4
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration4
Health and aging before and after retirement4
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission4
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model4
Are parents an obstacle to gender-atypical occupational choices?4
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors4
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study4
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity4
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?4
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States3
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries3
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility: experimental evidence from rural Tanzania3
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China3
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme3
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence3
Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data3
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development3
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey3
Forced migration and food crises3
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States3
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany3
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA3
Robots, routine jobs, and rural migrant workers: evidence from China3
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile2
Smuggling of forced migrants to Europe: a matching model2
Financial education as a complement to public pensions: the case of naive individuals2
Geography, landownership inequality, and literacy: historical evidence from Greek regions2
Migration control policy and parent–child separation among migrant families: evidence from China2
Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic2
The motherhood wage and income traps2
Mind the (gender pay) gap: the role of board gender composition2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies2
Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries2
Air pollution, health, migration, and innovation: evidence from urban China2
Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance2
The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations2
Relocating or reclassified? A new perspective on China’s urban population growth2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences2
Tiger moms: mother’s education and investments in children’s human capital in China2
Refugee influx and school enrollment among native youths in Jordan2
2023 Kuznets Prize awarded to Garima Rastogi and Anisha Sharma2
Asian entrepreneurship in the coronavirus era2
The impact of police violence on migration: evidence from Venezuela2
Domestic violence perception and gender stereotypes2
The winter depression: coal heating and mental health in China2
Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK2
Preventing reforming unequally2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?2
Unsafe daughters: sexual violence in public spheres and intrahousehold preference for sons2
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