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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	141
Front Matter	117
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	93
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	69
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration	59
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early-Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	50
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	49
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	49
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	40
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market	39
Breaking Silence: How Intimate Partner Violence And Reporting Shape Later Life Outcomes	38
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	37
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	31
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession	28
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	28
Front Matter	28
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	28
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	27
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation	24
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity	23
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	23
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	22
Marriage Search, Gender Norms and Tradeoffs	22
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	19

Front Matter	19
Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance	18
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	18
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth	17
The Effect of Child Support on Fathers’ Labor Supply	17
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	16
The Decline in Rent Sharing	16
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	16
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	14
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	14
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil	14
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	14
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	13
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	12
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China	12
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	12
Front Matter	12
How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Work? Exploring the Role of Commuting and Personal Transportation	12
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	12
Front Matter	12
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	12
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	11
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	11
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	11
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	11
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	10
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	10
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	10
Jacob Mincer Award	9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	9
Edward P. Lazear Prize	9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	8
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm	8
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	8
Immigrants’ Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe	8
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States	8
Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States	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	7
Searching with Friends	7
Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment	7
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	7
Officers of the Society	6
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare	6
SOLE 2024/29th Annual Meeting	6

Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data	6
Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency	6
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	6
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data	6
Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections	6
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	5
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	5
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	5
The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills	5
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	5
Estimating the Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of WWII Using Bunching	5
Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch	4
Jacob Mincer Award	4
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	4
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	4
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks	4
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	4
Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives	4
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation	4
Talent Management: The Role of Bosses	4
Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach	4
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment	4
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	4
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations	3
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	3
Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	3
Front Matter	3
Front Matter	3
Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile	3
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers	3
Erratum	3
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	3
Preventing School Dropout at Scale: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala	3
Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement	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
The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution	3
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work	3
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	3
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	2
Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance	2
Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections	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
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	2
Front Matter	2
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover	2
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality	2
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs	2
College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections	2
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching	2
SOLE 2025/30th Annual Meeting	2
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?	2
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	2
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China	2
Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach	2
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	2
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan	2
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?	2
Labor Supply within the Firm	2
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms	2
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor	2