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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India84
Weighing down the future: long-term effects of childhood obesity on intergenerational mobility66
Do fewer siblings lead to better mental health and subjective well-being? Evidence from China’s family planning policies55
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India30
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption28
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program28
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?23
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle22
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes21
The impact of shadow education expenditures on fertility rates in South Korea21
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution21
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India20
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?19
Migration, household services, and urban female labor supply: evidence from China19
Fertility, son preference, and the disappearing gender gap in literacy/numeracy tests18
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths18
Household impacts of child health shocks18
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets17
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany16
The impact of media coverage of sexual violence on women’s work decisions in rural Bangladesh15
Business travel, institutions, and economic complexity15
On the economic prospects of non-Western migrants in Europe14
Early-term abortion bans and sex selection after Dobbs v Jackson14
Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data12
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms12
Estimating treatment effects of the one-child policy: a self-report approach12
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia12
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era11
Anti-bullying laws and youth risky health behaviors11
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences11
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France11
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience11
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?11
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data11
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus10
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities9
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health9
Education, marriage, and banning female genital cutting: evidence from Benin9
The impact of global warming on obesity9
NIH grant expansion, ancestral diversity, and scientific collaborations in genomics research9
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China9
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market9
Childhood shocks and fertility: evidence from parental job loss8
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance8
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States8
The female happiness paradox8
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India8
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys8
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?8
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China8
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis8
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization8
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia8
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China8
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants8
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India7
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales7
Brothers, dowry, and spousal quality7
Too much of a good thing? Using tax incentives to stimulate dual-earner couples7
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India7
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills7
Under pressure: trade competition from low-wage countries and demand for immigrant labor in Italy7
The role of coresident grandparents in the Asian-white maternal employment gap in the US6
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection6
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes6
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?6
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
Are demographic developments undermining intergenerational compacts?6
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims6
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility6
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis6
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families5
Happy citizens trust their rulers5
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa5
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey5
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health5
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?5
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 20195
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender5
Are parents an obstacle to gender-atypical occupational choices?4
Health and aging before and after retirement4
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families4
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up4
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study4
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration4
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?4
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke approach applied to the measurement of population aging4
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health4
The effects of childhood immunization programs on health and education: micro-evidence from India4
Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited4
Right-to-work laws, union decline, and the opioid crisis4
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China4
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision4
Family foster care or residential care: the impact of home environment on children raised in state care4
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China4
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors4
Forced migration and food crises4
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea4
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA3
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries3
Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?3
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States3
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme3
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey3
Tiger moms: mother’s education and investments in children’s human capital in China3
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity3
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence3
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility: experimental evidence from rural Tanzania3
Robots, routine jobs, and rural migrant workers: evidence from China3
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data3
Geographic mortality differentials and the quality-quantity trade-off3
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?3
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development3
Unsafe daughters: sexual violence in public spheres and intrahousehold preference for sons2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy2
Asian entrepreneurship in the coronavirus era2
Refugee influx and school enrollment among native youths in Jordan2
Migration control policy and parent–child separation among migrant families: evidence from China2
The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations2
The motherhood wage and income traps2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?2
Preventing reforming unequally2
The winter depression: coal heating and mental health in China2
Financial education as a complement to public pensions: the case of naive individuals2
Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries2
Daughters like mothers? New evidence of inter-generational transmission of labor market stereotypical behavior2
Relocating or reclassified? A new perspective on China’s urban population growth2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences2
Mind the (gender pay) gap: the role of board gender composition2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design2
Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States2
Alcohol consumption in an empty nest2
The impact of police violence on migration: evidence from Venezuela2
Geography, landownership inequality, and literacy: historical evidence from Greek regions2
Domestic violence perception and gender stereotypes2
Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance2
Higher education, lower satisfaction: hypogamy and traditional norms in Japan2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies2
From sons to daughters: international marriage migration and sex imbalances at birth2
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