OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Labor Economics is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	131
Front Matter	111
Front Matter	83
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	65
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	57
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	49
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration	47
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	45
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early-Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	38
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	38
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	36
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	36
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market	32
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	30
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession	28
Front Matter	28
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	26
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	26
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	26
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	24
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation	23
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity	22
Marriage Search, Gender Norms and Tradeoffs	20
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	20
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	20

When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	18
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	17
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	17
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth	17
Front Matter	17
Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance	16
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	16
The Effect of Child Support on Fathers’ Labor Supply	16
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	15
The Decline in Rent Sharing	15
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	14
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	14
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	13
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	13
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil	13
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	12
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	12
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	12
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China	11
Front Matter	11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	11
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	11
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	11
Front Matter	11
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	11
How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Work? Exploring the Role of Commuting and Personal Transportation	11
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	10
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	10
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	10
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	9
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	9
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	9
Edward P. Lazear Prize	8
Jacob Mincer Award	8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	8
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	8
Immigrants’ Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe	8
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm	7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States	7
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	7
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	7
The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching	7
In the Land of AKM: Explaining the Dynamics of Wage Inequality in France	6
Searching with Friends	6
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency	6
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data	6

Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment	6
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States	6
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting	6
Officers of the Society	6
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	6
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data	6
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	5
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare	5
Estimating the Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of WWII Using Bunching	5
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	5
Front Matter	5
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting	5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections	5
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	5
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills	4
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	4
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation	4
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	4
Front Matter	4
Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives	4
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	4
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment	4
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	4
Talent Management: The Role of Bosses	3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers	3
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile	3
Jacob Mincer Award	3
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	3
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch	3
The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution	3
Erratum	3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations	3
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom	3
When Is Discrimination Unfair?	3
Robots and Workers	3
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks	3
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach	3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	3
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	2
Front Matter	2
Front Matter	2
Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement	2
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting	2
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?	2
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	2
Preventing School Dropout at Scale: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala	2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching	2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan	2
Labor Supply within the Firm	2
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	2
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	2
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work	2
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms	2
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?	2
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	2