OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Labor Economics is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	317
Front Matter	93
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival	56
High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes	51
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children	49
Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study	45
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education	42
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies	41
Gender, Selection into Employment and the Wage Impact of Immigration	39
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences	34
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes	33
Front Matter	32
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions	31
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession	30
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators	30
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?	29
Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations	25
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women	25
Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data	24
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks	24
A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics	22
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions	22
Childcare over the Business Cycle	22
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes	22
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System	21

When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups	21
Front Matter	21
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks	21
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction	20
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit	20
The Decline in Rent Sharing	19
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers	19
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	18
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records	17
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?	17
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting	17
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?	16
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom	16
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities	16
Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions	16
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants	15
Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up	15
SOLE Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement	14
Front Matter	14
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers	13
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South	13
Rent Sharing within Firms	13
Front Matter	13
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia	12
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution?	12
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility	12
Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan	12
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs	11
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences	11
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences	10
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets	10
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy	9
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools	9
Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort	9
H. Gregg Lewis Prize	8
Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity	8
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital	8
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?	8
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice	8
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility	8
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility	8
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining	8
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru	7
Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings	7
How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States	7
Searching with Friends	7
Jacob Mincer Award	7
Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.	7
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments	7
Edward P. Lazear Prize	7