OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	317
Front Matter	93
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	56
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	51
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	49
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	45
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	42
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	41
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	39
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	34
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	33
Front Matter	32
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	31
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	30
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	25
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	24
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	24
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	22
Childcare over the Business Cycle	22
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	22
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	21

Front Matter	21
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	21
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	21
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	20
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	20
The Decline in Rent Sharing	19
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	19
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	18
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	17
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	17
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	17
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	16
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	16
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	16
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	16
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	15
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	15
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	14
Front Matter	14
Rent Sharing within Firms	13
Front Matter	13
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	13
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	13
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	12
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	12
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	12
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	12
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	11
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	10
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	10
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	9
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	9
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	8
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	8
Searching with Friends	7
Jacob Mincer Award	7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.	7
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	7
Edward P. Lazear Prize	7
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	7
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	7
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	7

Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States	6
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment	6
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting	5
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	5
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency	5
Officers of the Society	5
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare	5
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data	5
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015	4
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data	4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	3
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	3
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting	3
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?	3
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	3
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	3
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections	3
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	3
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills	3
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives	3
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation	3
Front Matter	3
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	3
Motivating Employees through Career Paths	3
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment	2
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch	2
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	2
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach	2
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard	2
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom	2
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	2
Jacob Mincer Award	2
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	2
Jacob Mincer Award	2
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers	2
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	2
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	2
Front Matter	2
When is Discrimination Unfair?	2
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations	2
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks	2
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	1
Jacob Mincer Award	1
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses	1
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	1
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching	1
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy	1
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile	1
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	1
Labor Supply within the Firm	1
Violence and Human Capital Investments	1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance	1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market	1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms	1
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting	1
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	1
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	1
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	1
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data	1
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law	1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach	1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover	1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs	1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor	1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?	1
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies	1
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?	1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	1
Front Matter	1
US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings	1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections	1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality	1