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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	206
Optimal Allocation of Seats in the Presence of Peer Effects: Evidence from a Job Training Program	63
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning Throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador	46
Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data	42
Front Matter	34
Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence	33
Front Matter	32
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	30
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching	28
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	27
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	27
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	27
Searching with Friends	24
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.	24
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	23
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?	23
Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing	21
The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility	21
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States	21
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	20
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	20
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility	20
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work	19
Front Matter	18
The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market	18

Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	18
Front Matter	18
Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools?	16
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	16
The Decline in Rent Sharing	16
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	16
The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the U.S.	15
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt	15
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes	15
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	15
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	14
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	14
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment	14
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	13
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies	13
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses	13
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples	13
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring	12
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act	12
In-Kind Housing Transfers and Labor Supply: A Structural Approach	12
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	12
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	11
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	11
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare	11
Officers of the Society	11
Front Matter	11
Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States	11
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms	11
Overview: Wage Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century	11
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	10
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda	10
Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment	10
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	9
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development	9
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections	8
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	8
Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough	8
SOLE 2022/27th Annual Meetings	8
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance	8
Officers of the Society	8
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law	8
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting	7
Front Matter	7
Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills	7
Officers of the Society	7
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example	7
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment	6
Geographic Mobility of Youth and Spatial Gaps in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities	6
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	6
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94	6

Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	5
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting	5
Labor Supply within the Firm	5
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	5
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections	5
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	5
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	4
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?	4
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey	4
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	4
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015	4
Officers of the Society	4
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed	3
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	3
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor	3
SOLE 2023/28th Annual Meeting	3
Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match	3
Front Matter	3
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach	3
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	3
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency	3
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	3
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	3
Front Matter	3
Violence and Human Capital Investments	2
Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South	2
Judge Effects, Case Characteristics, and Plea Bargaining	2
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	2
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	2
Front Matter	2
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	2
Front Matter	2
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	2
Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals	2
Rent Sharing within Firms	2
Jacob Mincer Award	2
How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail	2
School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development	2
Men, Women, and Capital: Estimating Substitution Patterns Using a Size and Gender-Dependent Childcare Policy in Chile	2
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	2
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	1
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality	1
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover	1
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	1
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders	1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	1
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	1
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China	1
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	1
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives	1
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	1
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	1
Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data	1
The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior	1
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century United States	1
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market	1
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	1
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?	1
Motivating Employees through Career Paths	1
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs	1
From Unemployment to Self-Employment: An Evaluation of Self-Employment Assistance Programs	1
Front Matter	1
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	1
Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes	1
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	1
Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data	1
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	1
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle	1
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data	1
Long Social Distancing	1
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance	1
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	1
Front Matter	1
Sherwin Rosen Prize	1
Testing Means-Tested Aid	1
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	1