Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Labor Economics 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.)
ArticleCitations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival473
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education117
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes79
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies68
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes57
Front Matter49
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years42
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration41
Front Matter40
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study38
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences35
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children31
Front Matter30
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market29
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions29
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession29
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators27
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data27
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?27
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women24
Front Matter24
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity23
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks23
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation23
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups22
Childcare over the Business Cycle20
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks20
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes20
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction19
Front Matter18
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers17
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit17
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?16
The Decline in Rent Sharing16
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?15
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth15
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil14
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions14
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting14
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities13
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom13
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up13
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records13
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China12
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?12
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement12
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers12
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South12
Front Matter11
Rent Sharing within Firms11
Front Matter11
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize10
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia10
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets10
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility10
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort10
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility9
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility9
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital9
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy9
Edward P. Lazear Prize8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining8
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings7
The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching7
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm7
Immigrants’ Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe7
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment7
Jacob Mincer Award7
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States7
Searching with Friends6
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States6
Front Matter5
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting5
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data5
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital5
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru5
Officers of the Society5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections5
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data5
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency5
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting4
Estimating the Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of WWII Using Bunching4
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality4
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students4
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation4
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor4
Motivating Employees through Career Paths4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates4
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach3
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills3
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization3
When is Discrimination Unfair?3
Front Matter3
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major3
Talent Management: The Role of Bosses3
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment3
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning3
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D3
Jacob Mincer Award3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations3
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom3
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation3
Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives3
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch3
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers3
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan2
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks2
Front Matter2
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?2
Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement2
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work2
Erratum2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments2
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States2
Front Matter2
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy2
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile2
Jacob Mincer Award1
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?1
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market1
Front Matter1
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?1
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting1
Preventing School Dropout at Scale: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance1
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program1
Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants1
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas1
Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections1
Labor Supply within the Firm1
Why do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?1
Sherwin Rosen Prize1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20171
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