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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival497
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education119
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes85
Front Matter69
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years58
Front Matter50
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study44
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration41
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies41
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children41
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes37
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences34
Front Matter32
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators31
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market30
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?29
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data28
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession28
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations26
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women25
Front Matter25
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks24
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation24
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