OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Human Resources is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	20
The Health Effects of In Utero Exposure To Cash Transfers	18
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment	17
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	16
Early-Life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-Term Health and Economic Outcomes	16
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	15
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	14
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	14
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	13
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	11
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	11
A Mighty Toll	10
School Choice and Educational Mobility	10
Local Labor Markets and Selection into the Teaching Profession	10
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
No Place Like Home	8
Premium or Penalty?	8
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	8
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	8
Air Pollution and Cognition in Children	8
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	8

Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	8
Owning the Agent	7
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	7
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	7
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	6
Schools as Safety Nets	6
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	6
Big Sisters	6
Algorithms and Decision-making	6
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities	6
Television and the Labor Supply	5
Too Scared for School?	5
Political Competition Over Life and Death	5
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	5
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	5
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	5
Bayesian learning in the presence of misreporting and endogeneity	5
The Effects of Education on Health	5
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	5
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	4
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	4
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	4
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	4
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	3
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
The Power of Lakshmi	3
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	3
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	3
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring*	3
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	3
Unexpected colonial returns	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	3
There’s Always Room for Improvement	3
Quality and selection in regulated professions	3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	3
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	3

Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation	3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms	3
Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home	3
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	3
Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters	3
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings	2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance	2
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	2
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Is TRAP a Trap?	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy	2
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina	2
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	2
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?	2
Training teachers for diversity awareness	2
Beyond Nature and Nurture	2
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	2
Crossing Borders	2
Where versus What	2
Commodity Revenue Shocks and Mortality	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health	2
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	2
The Economics of Child Mental Health	2
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	2
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Fatherless	1
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	1
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	1
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	1
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings	1
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges	1
Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
A Watershed Moment	1
What Can Trends in Emergency Department Visits Tell Us About Child Mental Health?	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
Inconsistent Retirement Timing	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	1
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	1
Access to Colleges, Human Capital, and Empowerment of Women	1
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor	1
The Impact of Academic Probation	1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 59	1
Taken by Storm	1
Employment Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Base	1
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education?	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	1
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	1
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	1
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
Safe from Harm?	1
Relying on Private Firms as Safety Net Providers: WIC Participant Responses to Vendor Disqualification	1
What Knox Achieved	1