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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	26
The Health Effects of In Utero Exposure To Cash Transfers	18
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment	15
Early-Life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-Term Health and Economic Outcomes	14
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	14
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	13
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	13
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	12
Gender Reveals in the Labor Market	11
Integration or Isolation?	11
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	10
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	10
A Mighty Toll	10
Local Labor Markets and Selection into the Teaching Profession	10
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	10
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	9
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks?	8
Premium or Penalty?	8
Mothers’ Sorting into Lower-Paying Firms	8
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	7
No Place Like Home	7
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	6

Corrigendum to “When the Going Gets Tough…Reducing Unemployment Benefits in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”	6
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	6
Owning the Agent	5
How to Measure a Teacher	5
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	5
Air Pollution and Cognition in Children	5
Algorithms and Decision-making	5
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	5
Schools as Safety Nets	4
Working From Home and Wage Dynamics	4
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	4
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	4
Increased Mortality of White Americans and a Decline in the Health of Cohorts Born After World War II	4
Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities	4
Bayesian learning in the presence of misreporting and endogeneity	4
The Effects of Education on Health	4
Big Sisters	4
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	4
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	4
Television and the Labor Supply	4
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	3
Too Scared for School?	3
Can Academic Redshirting Shrink the Education Gender Gap?	3
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	3
Effects of Noncontributory Pensions on Older Adult Mortality in Rural Mexico	3
Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation	3
Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home	3
Labor Market Institutions and Wage-Setting Power	3
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	3
Teacher Testing Standards and the New Teacher Pipeline	3
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	3
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	3
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring*	3
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	3
Political Competition Over Life and Death	3
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	3
Effects of the Child Protection System on Parents	3
Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health	3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	2
Unexpected colonial returns	2
Does Weaker Employment Protection Lower the Cost of Job Loss?	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health	2
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	2
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	2
Prescription for Disaster	2
Understanding Gender Match Effects in Higher Education	2
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms	2
Negative Supply Shocks and Delayed Health Care	2
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	2

Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	2
Employers’ Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants	2
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
School Construction and Intergenerational Human Capital	2
Quality and selection in regulated professions	2
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	2
Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions	2
The Power of Lakshmi	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Crossing Borders	2
The Unintended Consequences of Policing Technology	2
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness	2
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	2
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	2
Cash Welfare and Health Spending	2
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	2
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	1
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
Is TRAP a Trap?	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
The Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance in Argentina	1
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion	1
Commodity Revenue Shocks and Mortality	1
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy	1
Birds of a Feather Earn Together	1
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	1
A Watershed Moment	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	1
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	1
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?	1
The Economics of Child Mental Health	1
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	1
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	1
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	1
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
Fortunate Families?	1
Safe from Harm?	1
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	1
Fatherless	1
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	1
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	1
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	1
Where versus What	1
Beyond Nature and Nurture	1
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	1