Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter141
Front Matter117
Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years93
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education69
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration59
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early-Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes50
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study49
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival49
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies40
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties: Evidence from the Biomedical Ph.D. Labor Market39
Breaking Silence: How Intimate Partner Violence And Reporting Shape Later Life Outcomes38
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions37
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data31
Front Matter28
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations28
Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession28
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women28
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks27
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation24
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups23
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity23
Marriage Search, Gender Norms and Tradeoffs22
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics22
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks20
Front Matter19
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit19
Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance18
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction18
The Effect of Child Support on Fathers’ Labor Supply17
Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Growth17
The Decline in Rent Sharing16
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?16
Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers16
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions14
The Impact of Admission to a Selective College on Crime: Evidence from a Tuition-Free University in Brazil14
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up14
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom14
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities13
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records13
Stepping Down from Lifelong Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China12
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia12
Front Matter12
How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Work? Exploring the Role of Commuting and Personal Transportation12
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement12
Front Matter12
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan12
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South12
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort11
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy11
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?11
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants11
H. Gregg Lewis Prize11
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets11
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility10
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility10
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity10
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences10
Edward P. Lazear Prize9
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?9
Jacob Mincer Award9
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital9
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm8
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments8
Immigrants’ Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe8
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States8
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings8
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