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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China316
Working from home and income inequality: risks of a ‘new normal’ with COVID-19249
Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic184
Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries159
COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects: a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies104
Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust96
The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US presidential election88
COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed57
Education and gender role attitudes55
Identifying policy challenges of COVID-19 in hardly reliable data and judging the success of lockdown measures44
Implications of COVID-19 labour market shocks for inequality in financial wellbeing39
School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan37
Peer effects of low-ability students in the classroom: evidence from China’s middle schools31
The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News27
Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?26
Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy25
Sexual orientation and earnings: a meta-analysis 2012–202024
Does immigration decrease far-right popularity? Evidence from Finnish municipalities23
True COVID-19 mortality rates from administrative data22
Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees21
Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.20
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-1919
The impact of repeated mass antigen testing for COVID-19 on the prevalence of the disease19
The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean19
Intra-household bargaining power, surname inheritance, and human capital accumulation17
Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth16
Culture and mental health resilience in times of COVID-1916
Children, unhappiness and family finances16
Global warming and urbanization15
Does performance pay increase alcohol and drug use?15
Does social participation improve cognitive abilities of the elderly?15
Maternity leave and female labor force participation: evidence from 159 countries15
Endogenous education and the reversal in the relationship between fertility and economic growth14
The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia14
The flip side of marital specialization: the gendered effect of divorce on living standards and labor supply13
Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants12
From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy12
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China11
The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions11
Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 transition countries11
Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: the role of time investments11
Gender differences in the skill content of jobs11
In medio stat victus: Labor Demand Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age10
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China10
Back to work or stay at home? Family policies and maternal employment in Finland10
Optimal lockdown and social welfare10
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China10
Children and labor market outcomes: separating the effects of the first three children10
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave10
Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?9
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants9
Housing market regulations and strategic divorce propensity in China9
Names and behavior in a war9
Railroads, specialization, and population growth: evidence from the first globalization9
The education gender gap and the demographic transition in developing countries9
Weathering the storm: weather shocks and international labor migration from the Philippines9
Safety at work and immigration9
Cohort at risk: long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement8
Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood8
Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes8
The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the USA8
Brothers increase women’s gender conformity8
Malthus in preindustrial Northern Italy?8
Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates: evidence from Hungary8
Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer?8
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers8
The unequal impact of natural light on crime7
The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination7
Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia7
Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–20207
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children7
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes7
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough7
Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments7
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia7
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents7
Heaven can wait: future tense and religiosity6
Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice6
The intergenerational effects of birth order on education6
The impact of 2020 French municipal elections on the spread of COVID-196
Do high aspirations lead to better outcomes? Evidence from a longitudinal survey of adolescents in Peru6
School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism: evidence from European countries6
Fertility versus productivity: a model of growth with evolutionary equilibria6
Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences6
The effect of compulsory schooling laws and child labor restrictions on fertility: evidence from the early twentieth century5
Big Five personality traits and sex5
Managing the impact of climate on migration: evidence from Mexico5
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China5
The US COVID-19 baby bust and rebound5
Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality5
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated5
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers4
Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms4
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone4
Demographic change and the rate of return in pay-as-you-go pension systems4
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India4
Aging and automation in economies with search frictions4
Landownership concentration and human capital accumulation in post-unification Italy4
Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal4
Identifying ethnic occupational segregation4
The effect of linguistic proximity on the labour market outcomes of the asylum population4
Saving lives: the 2006 expansion of daylight saving in Indiana4
Neighborhoods and mental health—evidence from a natural experiment in the public social housing sector4
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany4
Health spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program4
The impact of sodomy law repeals on crime3
Delay in childbearing and the evolution of fertility rates3
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship3
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission3
Under- and over-investment in education: the role of locked-in fertility3
Minimum working age and the gender mortality gap3
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants3
Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic3
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes3
Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women3
Preventing reforming unequally3
Social Mobility and Political Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949–20173
Economic geography of contagion: a study of COVID-19 outbreak in India3
How family background shapes the relationship between human capital and fertility3
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates3
Analysing tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands using structural models and natural experiments3
Native Americans’ experience of chronic distress in the USA3
Excess churn in integrated labor markets2
I am a survivor, keep on surviving: early-life exposure to conflict and subjective survival probabilities in adult life2
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 20192
Deportation, crime, and victimization2
Health and aging before and after retirement2
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys2
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment2
The inter-generational fertility effect of an abortion ban2
The effect of paid vacation on health: evidence from Sweden2
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes2
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China2
Compensation for girls in early childhood and its long-run impact: family investment strategies under rainfall shocks2
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development2
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective2
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence2
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