Journal of Population Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Population Economics is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India116
Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden70
Revolutionized life: long-term effects of childhood exposure to persecution on human capital and marital sorting47
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families41
The motherhood wage and income traps38
Health and aging before and after retirement34
Analysing tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands using structural models and natural experiments33
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated29
Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women29
Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes27
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes23
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence23
Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth23
The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions23
The effect of linguistic proximity on the labour market outcomes of the asylum population22
The effects of an epidemic on prenatal investments, childhood mortality and health of surviving children22
The chips are down: the influence of family on children’s trust formation20
Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?20
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers20
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health17
Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States17
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?16
Life after loss: the causal effect of parental death on daughters’ fertility15
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India15
Migration and informational autocracy15
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States14
Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades14
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China13
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program13
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough13
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission12
Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–202012
Explaining third birth patterns in India: causal effects of sibling sex composition12
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance12
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective12
Post-marital residence and female wellbeing12
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents12
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China11
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia11
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes11
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution10
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption10
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services10
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China10
Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups9
Domestic violence perception and gender stereotypes9
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?9
Migration control policy and parent–child separation among migrant families: evidence from China9
Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance9
Middle-run educational impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions: evidence from a pioneer program in Chile8
Refugee influx and school enrollment among native youths in Jordan8
Do all roads lead to the same destination? Proximity to abortion providers, abortions, and their conditions in Portugal8
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up8
Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?8
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India8
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia7
Cannabis and tobacco: substitutes and complements7
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship7
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle7
The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia7
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea7
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants6
The impact of 2020 French municipal elections on the spread of COVID-196
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China6
From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy6
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates6
High-speed internet and socioemotional wellbeing in adolescence and youth6
The effect of Ukrainian refugees on the local labour markets: the case of Czechia6
Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia6
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes6
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study6
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization6
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