Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Labor Economics is 24. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival422
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education110
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes70
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences63
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies51
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes51
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration45
Front Matter41
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study40
Front Matter37
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years36
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children35
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession34
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions31
Front Matter29
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators28
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data28
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?28
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women27
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations27
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession26
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics24
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks24
Childcare over the Business Cycle24
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions24
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