Journal of Human Resources

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Did Expanding Sports Opportunities for Women Reduce Crime?35
Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages18
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes17
Automation and Human Capital Adjustment16
Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects15
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality14
The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers12
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 5812
“There She Is, Your Ideal”11
Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers?11
A Mighty Toll10
Obstacles on the Road to School10
Who Paid Los Angeles’ Minimum Wage?9
School Choice and Educational Mobility9
Can Abortion Mitigate Transitory Shocks? Demographic Consequences under Son Preference8
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health8
Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing8
Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality8
Premium or Penalty?8
How to Measure a Teacher8
The Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply8
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College8
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health8
Parental Labor Supply7
No Place Like Home7
Schools as Safety Nets7
Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism7
Selecting Talent6
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?6
Political Competition Over Life and Death6
Television and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK6
Labor Market Experience and Returns to College Education in Fast-Growing Economies6
Increased mortality of white Americans and a decline in the health of cohorts born after World War II6
The Effect of High Dismissal Protection on Bureaucratic Turnover and Productivity6
Owning the Agent6
Physician Health Management Skills and Patient Outcomes6
Stacking the Deck for Employment Success5
STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum5
The Effects of Education on Health5
Return Migration Decisions and Declining Earnings5
Too Scared for School?5
Minimum Wage, Employment, and Margins of Adjustment5
Discrimination and Daycare Choice5
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms’ Worker Selection5
Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions5
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria4
The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations4
Baby Bonus, Fertility, and Missing Women4
Efficient targeting in childhood interventions4
Does Enrollment Lead to Completion?4
Can Transfers and Complementary Nutrition Programming Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-Program?4
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-)Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?4
Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply4
The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance4
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks4
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities4
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap4
The Power of Lakshmi4
Cultural Norms and Neighborhood Exposure3
Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms3
Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector3
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers3
Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters3
There’s Always Room for Improvement3
Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality3
Are Two Teachers Better Than One?3
Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence3
Teacher Strikes as Public Signals3
Savings Accounts to Borrow Less3
Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education3
Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement3
Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores3
Leadership & Gender Composition in Managerial Positions3
College Choice, Private Options, and the Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education3
Unexpected colonial returns3
The Supply Side of Discrimination?3
A Peace Baby Boom? Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement3
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?3
Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?3
Training teachers for diversity awareness3
Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and Female College Enrollment2
Can Information Enhanced with Nudges Mitigate the Rise of Childhood Obesity in the Global South?2
Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings2
Access to Colleges, Human Capital, and Empowerment of Women2
Student Accountability, Exit Exams, and Long-Run Outcomes2
Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change2
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood2
Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance2
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?2
Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”: Social Networks and Job Finding at Community Colleges2
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina2
Is TRAP a Trap?2
The High Stakes of Bad Exams2
Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rape?2
Beyond Nature and Nurture2
Starting Out on the Right Foot2
Where versus What2
Crossing Borders2
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon2
Unilateral Divorce, Assortative Mating, and Household Income Inequality2
The Economics of Child Mental Health2
Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market2
Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion2
The Child Health Impacts of Coal2
Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries2
Child Mental Health, Family Circumstance, and Long-Term Success2
Can Early Intervention Have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?2
Longer Time for School: The 1981 Marriage Law and Rural Female Education in China2
Unintended Consequences of a Well-Intentioned Policy: Impact of Credit on Child Labor in Bangladesh2
Access to Pensions, Old-Age Support, and Child Investment in China2
The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings2
Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply2
Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings2
A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight2
Implementing Home-Based Educational Interventions at Scale1
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges1
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution1
The Journal of Human Resources Referees Volume 591
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing1
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education?1
Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility1
The Great Recession’s Baby‐Less Recovery1
Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance1
Early Skill Effects on Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes1
Taken by Storm1
Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes1
The Impact of Academic Probation1
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization1
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide1
Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality in the United States, 1880-19101
Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders?1
Sexual Orientation and Multiple Job Holding1
Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic1
Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty1
The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight1
Fatherless: The Long-Term Effects of Losing a Father in the U.S. Civil War1
Employment Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Tax Base1
Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?1
A Thousand Cuts1
COVID-19 Restrictions Reduced Abortion Clinic Visits, Even in Blue States1
Relying on Private Firms as Safety Net Providers: WIC Participant Responses to Vendor Disqualification1
Age Discrimination in Hiring1
How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?1
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation1
Detecting and Preventing Cheating in Exams1
Testing1
What Knox Achieved1
Victimization and Skill Accumulation1
Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects1
Inconsistent Retirement Timing1
Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices1
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood1
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?1
Health’s Kitchen1
Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Victims and Their Children1
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs1
0.063856840133667