OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 9. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	497
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	119
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	85
Front Matter	69
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years	58
Front Matter	50
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	44
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	41
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	41
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	41
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	37
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	34
Front Matter	32
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	31
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market	30
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	28
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	28
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	26
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession	26
Front Matter	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
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
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	22
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	22
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	22
Childcare over the Business Cycle	22
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	21
Front Matter	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	19
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	17
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	17
The Decline in Rent Sharing	17
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	16
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth	16
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	15
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	15
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	15
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	14
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil	14
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	14
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	13
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	13
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	13
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China	13
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	13
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	13
Front Matter	12
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	12
Front Matter	12
Rent Sharing within Firms	12
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	11
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	11
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	11
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	11
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	11
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	11
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	10
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	10
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	10
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	10
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	10
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	9
Edward P. Lazear Prize	9
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	9