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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days	41
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	32
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes	22
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	17
Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages	17
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	16
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	15
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	15
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	14
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	13
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	12
Obstacles on the Road to School	11
A Mighty Toll	11
School Choice and Educational Mobility	10
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	10
Premium or Penalty?	10
The Growing Importance of Social Tasks in High-Paying Occupations	9
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	8
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
How to Measure a Teacher	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	7
Parental Labor Supply	7

The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	7
No Place Like Home	7
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	7
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	6
Television and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK	6
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	6
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	6
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	6
Too Scared for School? Effects of Terrorism on Students’ Achievement	6
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	6
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	6
Schools as Safety Nets	6
Political Competition Over Life and Death	6
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	6
STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum	5
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	5
Admissions Policies, Cohort Composition, and Academic Success	5
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective	5
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	5
Selecting Talent	5
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	5
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	5
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	4
The Power of Lakshmi	4
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	4
Labor Monopsony and the Limits of the Law	4
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less	4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	4
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	4
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities	4
Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector	3
Social Interventions, Health, and Well-Being	3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms	3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	3
There’s Always Room for Improvement	3
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism	3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	3
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	3
Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters	3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	3

Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	3
Training teachers for diversity awareness	3
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?	2
Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	2
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	2
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	2
A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight	2
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
Beyond Nature and Nurture	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	2
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings	2
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	2
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	2
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy: Impact of Credit on Child Labor in Bangladesh	2
Is TRAP a Trap?	2
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?	2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance	2
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?	2
Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility	2
The Economics of Child Mental Health	2
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	2
Access to Colleges, Human Capital, and Empowerment of Women	2
Starting Out on the Right Foot	2
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	2
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina	2
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	2
Where versus What	2
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”: Social Networks and Job Finding at Community Colleges	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon	2
Taken by Storm	1
How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?	1
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs	1
A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement	1
The Lost Generation?	1
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	1
What Knox Achieved	1
Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders?	1
Fatherless: The Long-Term Effects of Losing a Father in the U.S. Civil War	1
Inconsistent Retirement Timing	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes	1
COVID-19 Restrictions Reduced Abortion Clinic Visits, Even in Blue States	1
The Impact of Academic Probation	1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 59	1
Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement	1
Victimization and Skill Accumulation	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	1
Testing	1
Interactions Between Family and School Environments	1
Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Victims and Their Children	1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	1
Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
Detecting and Preventing Cheating in Exams	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
Employment Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Base	1
Age Discrimination in Hiring	1