Journal of Labor Economics

1983 - 2026

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Volume 44, issue S1, 2026

Introduction to Parental Labor Supply Responses to School Disruptions: New Cross-National Comparisons pp. S1 - S16

Richard V. Burkhauser, Dean R. Lillard and Joseph J. Sabia

The Effect of School Disruptions on Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data pp. S17 - S46

Dean R. Lillard, Joseph J. Sabia, Zihao Sheng and Casey Warman

School Closures and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Germany pp. S47 - S88

Blanka Imre, Markus M. Grabka, Oskar Breer and Neil Murray

When Schools Close in Russia: Effects on Parental Labor Supply and Work from Home pp. S89 - S110

Klara Peter and Ivan Suvorov

Parental Employment Responses to COVID-19 School Disruptions in Korea pp. S111 - S137

Yeji Bak, Sok Chul Hong and Dae-il Kim

Remote Schooling during the Pandemic: A Double Burden for Working Parents in Sweden? pp. S139 - S160

Christoph Kronenberg, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham and Martin Karlsson

The Impact of School Disruptions during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parental Labor Supply and Earnings in Australia pp. S161 - S182

Nicolás Salamanca, Tanya Gupta, Irma Mooi-Reci and Mark Wooden

The Effect of School Closures during the Pandemic on Parental Labor Supply in China pp. S183 - S201

Boyan Zheng, James Raymo, Yi Zhou and Qiang Ren

Volume 44, issue 4, 2026

Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work pp. 1065 - 1087

Coen van de Kraats, Titus Galama, Maarten Lindeboom and Zichen Deng

Gender Gaps in Access to Medical Intern Positions: The Role of Competition pp. 1089 - 1116

Marina Díez-Rituerto, Javier Gardeazabal, Nagore Iriberri and Pedro Rey-Biel

Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Precommitted Analysis Plan pp. 1117 - 1147

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael R. Strain

Exam Reward Structure, Gender Performance Gaps, and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 1149 - 1184

Bruna Borges, Fernanda Estevan and Louis-Philippe Morin

Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition: A Textual Analysis Approach pp. 1185 - 1221

Zihao Li and Shaoyu Liu

Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers pp. 1223 - 1258

Ian Burn, Daniel Firoozi, Daniel Ladd and David Neumark

Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs pp. 1259 - 1298

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States pp. 1299 - 1337

Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom and Kelly Vosters

Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations pp. 1339 - 1381

Justin C. Wiltshire, Carl McPherson, Michael Reich and Denis Sosinskiy

Men, Women, and Capital: Estimating Substitution Patterns by Using a Size- and Gender-Dependent Childcare Policy in Chile pp. 1383 - 1434

Diego Escobar, Jeanne Lafortune and José Tessada

Volume 44, issue 3, 2026

Profits of Prejudiced Algorithms pp. 709 - 727

David J. Jin

When Is Discrimination Unfair? pp. 729 - 758

Peter Kuhn, Trevor Osaki and Lei Yue

Gene-Environment Complementarity in Educational Attainment pp. 759 - 788

Dilnoza Muslimova, Hans van Kippersluis, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Stephanie von Hinke and S. Fleur W. Meddens

Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes? pp. 789 - 821

Aaron Phipps

Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study pp. 823 - 854

Eskil Heinesen, Christian Hvid, Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad

Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales pp. 855 - 889

Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Matthew Pecenco and Edward Rubin

Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data pp. 891 - 924

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato and Nina Smith

Beyond IQ: The Rising Value of Extraversion pp. 925 - 966

Ramin Izadi and Joonas Tuhkuri

Consumption and Income Inequality across Generations pp. 967 - 1008

Giovanni Gallipoli, Hamish Low and Aruni Mitra

The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation pp. 1009 - 1063

Riccardo Marchingiglio and Michael Poyker

Volume 44, issue 2, 2026

College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections pp. 351 - 381

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan and Douglas Webber

Decomposing the Parental Education Gradient in Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees pp. 383 - 412

Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Traits pp. 413 - 445

Shuaizhang Feng, Jun Hyung Kim and Zhe Yang

The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets pp. 447 - 479

Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica and Matthew Jackson

Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch pp. 481 - 514

Thomas Jungbauer

Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration pp. 515 - 552

George J. Borjas and Anthony Edo

Taxes, Childcare, and Gender Identity Norms pp. 553 - 586

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital pp. 587 - 628

Cristina Borra, Ana Costa-Ramón, Libertad Gonzalez and Almudena Sevilla

High School Dropout for Marginal Students: Early-Career Consequences and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 629 - 665

Martin Andresen and Sturla Løkken

The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility pp. 667 - 707

Riley Wilson

Volume 44, issue 1, 2026

Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment pp. 1 - 23

Francis Murphy and Sarah Turner

Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence pp. 25 - 52

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Matthew Miller, Shuyang Sheng and Veronica Sovero

The Long-Run Effects of Consequential School Accountability pp. 53 - 81

Jonathan Mansfield and David Slichter

Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections pp. 83 - 117

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Matthew S. Johnson and Nagisa Tadjfar

The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills pp. 119 - 148

Jin Zhou, James Heckman, Bei Liu and Mai Lu

Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms pp. 149 - 188

Jaime Arellano-Bover and Fernando Saltiel

The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies pp. 189 - 227

Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté and Stefan Staubli

University Loans and Grants: Effects on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 229 - 270

Alex Solis

Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom pp. 271 - 308

Andreas Diemer

From Unemployment to Self-Employment: An Evaluation of Self-Employment Assistance Programs pp. 309 - 349

Alexandre Gaillard and Sumudu Kankanamge

Volume 43, issue S1, 2025

Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Robert A. Moffitt pp. S1 - S6

Michael Keane and James Ziliak

Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort pp. S7 - S54

Joseph Altonji, Daniel Giraldo-Páez, Disa Hynsjo and Ivan Vidangos

Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Life Cycle Earnings Volatility pp. S55 - S82

Richard Blundell, Christopher Bollinger, Charles Hokayem and James Ziliak

Workers’ Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk pp. S83 - S121

Gizem Kosar and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Family Income Dynamics 1970–2018: Putting the Pieces Together pp. S123 - S151

Ji-Liang Shiu, Sisi Zhang and Peter Gottschalk

The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the United States pp. S153 - S178

Anna L. Ziff, Emily Wiemers and V. Joseph Hotz

Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity pp. S179 - S219

Michael Keane and Timothy Neal

Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach pp. S221 - S267

Weilong Zhang and Petra E. Todd

The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility pp. S269 - S301

Sadegh Eshaghnia, James Heckman and Rasmus Landersø

A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics pp. S303 - S332

Shuaizhang Feng, Yingyao Hu and Jiandong Sun

Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up pp. S333 - S350

Charles Manski

Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment pp. S351 - S397

Meta Brown, Christopher Flinn and Joseph Mullins

Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions, and Child Development pp. S399 - S444

Marc Chan and Kai Liu

Volume 43, issue 4, 2025

Multirater Performance Evaluations and Incentives pp. 985 - 1004

Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka and Peter Werner

Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions pp. 1005 - 1034

Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger and Derek Neal

Impact of an Early-Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility pp. 1035 - 1062

Martti Kaila, Emily Nix and Krista Riukula

Two Sides of the Same Pill? Fertility Control and Mental Health Effects of the Contraceptive Pill pp. 1063 - 1099

Franziska Valder

Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States pp. 1101 - 1133

Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan Lewis

Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing pp. 1135 - 1168

Antonin Bergeaud, Clément Malgouyres, Clément Mazet-Sonilhac and Sara Signorelli

The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment pp. 1169 - 1206

Michael Amior

Interaction of the Labor Market and the Health Insurance System: Employer-Sponsored, Individual, and Public Insurance pp. 1207 - 1249

Naoki Aizawa and Chao Fu

Geographic Mobility of Youth and Spatial Gaps in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities pp. 1251 - 1294

Shoya Ishimaru

Volume 43, issue 3, 2025

Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills pp. 665 - 694

Femke Cnossen, Matloob Piracha and Guy Tchuente

Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns pp. 695 - 723

Michael J. Böhm, Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli

Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile pp. 725 - 762

Andres Barrios-Fernández and Jorge García-Hombrados

Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants pp. 763 - 802

Ferran Elias, Joan Monras and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers pp. 803 - 841

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold and Julia Schmieder

Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States pp. 843 - 883

Toman Barsbai, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Winter

The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda pp. 885 - 935

Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali

Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity pp. 937 - 983

Morris M. Kleiner and Ming Xu

Volume 43, issue 2, 2025

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment pp. 293 - 318

Jacob Arendt, Christian Dustmann and Hyejin Ku

Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover pp. 319 - 348

Omar Bamieh, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico

Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan pp. 349 - 389

Hiromi Hara and Núria Rodríguez-Planas

The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University pp. 391 - 431

Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes and Evan Riehl

The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador pp. 433 - 466

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Francesca Salvati and Norbert Schady

Dynamic Effort Choice in High School: Costs and Benefits of an Academic Track pp. 467 - 502

Olivier De Groote

Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities pp. 503 - 543

Melanie Arntz, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage pp. 545 - 584

So Yoon Ahn

In-Kind Housing Transfers and Labor Supply: A Structural Approach pp. 585 - 633

Ning Zhang

How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? pp. 635 - 663

Kevin Lang

Volume 43, issue 1, 2025

Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings pp. 1 - 13

Randy Cragun

Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival pp. 15 - 46

Stacey H. Chen, Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang and Tzu-Hsin Lin

Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms pp. 47 - 81

Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus Rödin and Johan Vikström

Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas pp. 83 - 119

Wei Cheng and Bruce Weinberg

Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency pp. 121 - 159

Michael Waldman and Zhenda Yin

Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions pp. 161 - 201

Mark Colas and Robert McDonough

The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market pp. 203 - 246

Paul Mohnen

The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors pp. 247 - 292

Monica Deza and Alvaro Mezza