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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes	20
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?	20
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment	18
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment	17
Reducing Parent–School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes	16
The Health Effects of In Utero Exposure To Cash Transfers	15
The Income–Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality	14
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects	13
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?	12
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers	11
“There She Is, Your Ideal”	11
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 58	11
Local Labor Markets and Selection into the Teaching Profession	10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?	9
A Mighty Toll	9
School Choice and Educational Mobility	9
Premium or Penalty?	8
Air Pollution and Cognition in Children	8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health	8
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference	8
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health	8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality	8
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply	8
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism	8
Parental Labor Supply	7

How to Measure a Teacher	7
No Place Like Home	7
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing	7
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College	7
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?	6
Algorithms and Decision-making	6
Schools as Safety Nets	6
Big Sisters	6
Owning the Agent	6
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II	6
Discrimination and Daycare Choice	5
The Effects of Education on Health	5
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies	5
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity	5
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings	5
Political Competition Over Life and Death	5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection	5
Too Scared for School?	5
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes	5
Bayesian learning in the presence of misreporting and endogeneity	4
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions	4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations	4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?	4
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions	4
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success	4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women	4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?	4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply	4
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria	4
Television and the Labor Supply	4
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment	4
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks	4
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	4
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap	4
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring*	3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement	3
Unexpected colonial returns	3
Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters	3
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?	3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance	3
The Power of Lakshmi	3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals	3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?	3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education	3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms	3
Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation	3
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less	3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence	3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers	3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement	3

Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education	3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?	2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”	2
The Economics of Child Mental Health	2
Access to Colleges, Human Capital, and Empowerment of Women	2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes	2
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?	2
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina	2
Beyond Nature and Nurture	2
Is TRAP a Trap?	2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality	2
Where versus What	2
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions	2
There’s Always Room for Improvement	2
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality	2
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings	2
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings	2
Starting Out on the Right Foot	2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China	2
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment	2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance	2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply	2
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores	2
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?	2
Training teachers for diversity awareness	2
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?	2
Crossing Borders	2
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success	2
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?	2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings	2
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China	2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health	2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy	2
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?	2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood	2
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure	2
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale	1
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization	1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges	1
What Knox Achieved	1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes	1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 59	1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight	1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide	1
Safe from Harm?	1
Taken by Storm	1
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market	1
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment	1
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	1
Treatment for mental health and substance use	1
The Impact of Academic Probation	1
Victimization and Skill Accumulation	1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?	1
Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Victims and Their Children	1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects	1
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing	1
A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight	1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution	1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices	1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation	1
Employment Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Base	1
The High Stakes of Bad Exams	1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?	1
Fatherless	1
Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty	1
Relying on Private Firms as Safety Net Providers: WIC Participant Responses to Vendor Disqualification	1
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education?	1
Inconsistent Retirement Timing	1
Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding	1
Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility	1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood	1
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery	1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-1910	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
The Child Health Impacts of Coal	1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance	1