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 2021-09-01 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
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes51
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies51
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
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks23
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups23
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes23
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction22
Front Matter22
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit22
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?21
The Decline in Rent Sharing20
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers20
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?20
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting20
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions20
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities19
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up19
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom18
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records17
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?16
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil15
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South15
Rent Sharing within Firms15
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement15
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?14
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers14
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility13
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia13
Front Matter13
Front Matter13
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan12
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China12
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort11
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants11
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets10
H. Gregg Lewis Prize10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility10
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?9
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining8
Jacob Mincer Award8
The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching8
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital8
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States8
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments8
Edward P. Lazear Prize8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings8
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity8
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States7
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru7
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare7
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data7
Searching with Friends7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States7
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting6
Officers of the Society6
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency6
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital5
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections5
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data5
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality4
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates4
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students4
Front Matter4
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?4
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor4
Motivating Employees through Career Paths4
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D3
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills3
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks3
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data3
Front Matter3
Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives3
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment3
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations3
Jacob Mincer Award3
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach3
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation3
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation3
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand3
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers3
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching2
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses2
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch2
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage2
Front Matter2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States2
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work2
Erratum2
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom2
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile2
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy2
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
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?2
When is Discrimination Unfair?2
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments2
Front Matter2
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies1
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law1
Education Transmission and Network Formation1
Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants1
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China1
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas1
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting1
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach1
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality1
Jacob Mincer Award1
Labor Supply within the Firm1
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting1
Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections1
University Loans and Grants: Effects on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes1
Why do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?1
Front Matter1
Sherwin Rosen Prize1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market1
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20171
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor1
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?1
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