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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Unintended Consequences of “Ban the Box”: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden	95
Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words	64
The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks	64
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies	58
Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term	51
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation	41
High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School	34
Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment	33
Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading	29
State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data	27
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples	27
Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness	26
Adjusting to Globalization in Germany	25
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	24
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data	24
Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?	24
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects	21
Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes	21
Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes	21
The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees	20
The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States	20
The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites	20
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	19
School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification	19
Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example	18

Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?	17
Violence and Human Capital Investments	17
How Do Employers Use Compensation History? Evidence from a Field Experiment	17
Does Parental Quality Matter? Evidence on the Transmission of Human Capital Using Variation in Parental Influence from Death, Divorce, and Family Size	17
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94	16
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard	15
Constraints on Hours within the Firm	14
How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility	14
Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University: Evidence from Chile	14
Machine Labor	13
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor	13
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment	13
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses	13
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	13
Public and Private Employer Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Teacher Value Added	13
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	12
Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance	12
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	12
High-Dosage Tutoring and Reading Achievement: Evidence from New York City	12
Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle	12
How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail	11
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	11
Head Start and the Distribution of Long-Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes	11
The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors	11
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	11
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	11
Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-Run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia	11
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	11
Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match	10
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	10
Motivating Employees through Career Paths	10
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	9
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015	9
Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome the Free-Rider Problem	9
Why Is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education	9
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8
Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation	8
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences	8
Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms	8
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	8
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed	8
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?	8
World War II, the Baby Boom, and Employment: County-Level Evidence	8
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization	8
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act	8
The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects	7
The Effect of Child Support on Selection into Marriage and Fertility	7
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	7
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants	7
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7

Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful Than Others?	7
US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings	6
Testing Means-Tested Aid	6
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders	6
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	6
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy	6
The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China	6
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century United States	6
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	6
Childcare over the Business Cycle	6
Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance	6
Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South	6
Interpreting Experimental Evidence in the Presence of Postrandomization Events: A Reassessment of the Self-Sufficiency Project	6
Female Earnings Inequality: The Changing Role of Family Characteristics and Its Effect on the Extensive and Intensive Margins	5
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment	5
Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals	5
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	5
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	5
Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility	4
A Method for Disentangling Multiple Treatments from a Regression Discontinuity Design	4
A Pleasure That Hurts: The Ambiguous Effects of Elite Tutoring on Underprivileged High School Students	4
World War II and Black Economic Progress	4
Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data	4
Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment	4
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	4
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017	4
Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients	3
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement	3
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size	3
The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction	3
Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay	3
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation	3
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	3
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	3
The Labor Market Effects of US Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great Recession	3
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China	3
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the United States: A Panel Analysis	3
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes	2
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	2
Education Transmission and Network Formation	2
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data	2
The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior	2
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance	2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments	2
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	2
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	2
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle	2
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates	2
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital	2
Matching Across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage	2
The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador	2
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market	2
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	2
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law	2
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence	1
Do less informative college admission exams reduce earnings inequality? Evidence from Colombia	1
Labor Supply within the Firm	1
Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas	1
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States	1
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work	1
Understanding the Effect of Parental Education and Financial Resources on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income	1
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand	1
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	1
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	1
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting	1
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey	1
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example	1
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	1
Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration	1
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major	1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s	1
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning	1
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?	1
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students	1
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	1
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring	1
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	1
Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms	1
The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime	1
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D	1