Journal of Labor Economics

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Volume 40, issue S1, 2022

Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Alan B. Krueger pp. S1 - S15

David Card and Alexandre Mas

Rent Sharing within Firms pp. S17 - S38

David Cho and Alan Krueger

The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility pp. S39 - S95

David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru and Lowell Taylor

Machine Labor pp. S97 - S140

Joshua Angrist and Brigham Frandsen

Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms pp. S141 - S178

Jesse Rothstein and Diane Schanzenbach

Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants pp. S179 - S201

Orley Ashenfelter and Stepan Jurajda

Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes pp. S203 - S247

Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner and David Zentler-Munro

Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance pp. S249 - S291

Lawrence Katz, Jonathan Roth, Richard Hendra and Kelsey Schaberg

Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies pp. S293 - S340

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell and Pascual Restrepo

Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children pp. S341 - S382

Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck

Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes pp. S383 - S427

Suqin Ge, Elliott Isaac and Amalia Miller

Childcare over the Business Cycle pp. S429 - S468

Jessica H. Brown and Chris M. Herbst

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders pp. S469 - S493

Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio and Stephen Woodbury

Volume 40, issue 4, 2022

Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data pp. 779 - 805

Alan Griffith

Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match pp. 807 - 850

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor pp. 851 - 887

Peter Siminski and Rhiannon Yetsenga

Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay pp. 889 - 938

Michael Beckmann and Matthias Kräkel

Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization pp. 939 - 970

Anna Bindler and Nadine Ketel

What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples pp. 971 - 1004

Martin Andresen and Emily Nix

Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey pp. 1005 - 1051

Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth and Zachary Kroff

World War II and Black Economic Progress pp. 1053 - 1091

Andreas Ferrara

Volume 40, issue 3, 2022

A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences pp. 543 - 572

Miriam Krueger and Guido Friebel

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids? pp. 573 - 611

Jacob Bastian and Lance Lochner

Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring? pp. 613 - 667

Ian Burn, Patrick Button, Luis Munguia Corella and David Neumark

Less Competition, More Meritocracy? pp. 669 - 701

Dawei Fang and Thomas Noe

Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession pp. 703 - 735

Kevin Rinz

The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador pp. 737 - 777

Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Christoph Kühnhanss, Daniel Steffen and Aymo Brunetti

Volume 40, issue 2, 2022

Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators pp. 283 - 323

Valentin Bolotnyy and Natalia Emanuel

Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers pp. 325 - 359

Hyejin Ku

The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy pp. 361 - 395

Ozkan Eren, Michael Lovenheim and H. Naci Mocan

Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs pp. 397 - 436

Valerie Bostwick and Bruce Weinberg

World War II, the Baby Boom, and Employment: County-Level Evidence pp. 437 - 471

Abel Brodeur and Lamis Kattan

Constraints on Hours within the Firm pp. 473 - 503

Claudio Labanca and Dario Pozzoli

The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s pp. 505 - 541

Jonathan A. Lanning and Curtis Reynolds

Volume 40, issue 1, 2022

Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting pp. 1 - 46

Russell Weinstein

Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining pp. 47 - 94

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Matthew S. Johnson, Melvin Stephens and Do Lee

Motivating Employees through Career Paths pp. 95 - 131

Heski Bar-Isaac and Raphaël Levy

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard pp. 133 - 156

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment pp. 157 - 185

Christopher Cotton, Brent R. Hickman and Joseph P. Price

How Widespread Are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century United States pp. 187 - 237

Hui Ren Tan

Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility pp. 239 - 282

Victor Lavy, Assaf Kott and Genia Rachkovski

Volume 39, issue S2, 2021

Introduction: Essays in Honor of John E. DiNardo pp. S317 - S328

David Card, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act pp. S329 - S367

Martha Bailey, John DiNardo and Bryan Stuart

Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects pp. S369 - S412

Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux and Neil Lloyd

Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients pp. S413 - S454

Amanda Eng and Jordan Matsudaira

Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance pp. S455 - S506

David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O’Leary, Zhuan Pei and Simon Quach

A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example pp. S507 - S541

John DiNardo, Jordan Matsudaira, Justin McCrary and Lisa Sanbonmatsu

Judge Effects, Case Characteristics, and Plea Bargaining pp. S543 - S574

Kristin Butcher, Kyung H. Park and Anne Piehl

Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed pp. S575 - S617

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Helen Levy and Robert Valletta

Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough pp. S619 - S650

Seth Freedman, Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Noah Hammarlund

Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes pp. S651 - S702

Mireille Jacobson, Maria Kogelnik and Heather Royer

Volume 39, issue S1, 2021

Introduction: A Special Issue in Honor of Joseph Altonji pp. S1 - S3

Daniel Aaronson, Lisa B. Kahn, Costas Meghir and Christopher Taber

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States pp. S5 - S58

Bruce D. Meyer, Derek Wu, Victoria Mooers and Carla Medalia

Female Earnings Inequality: The Changing Role of Family Characteristics and Its Effect on the Extensive and Intensive Margins pp. S59 - S106

David Card and Dean Hyslop

Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading pp. S107 - S149

Jeffrey Clemens, Lisa B. Kahn and Jonathan Meer

School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification pp. S151 - S197

Todd Elder, David Figlio, Scott Imberman and Claudia Persico

The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction pp. S199 - S238

John Ham and Ken Ueda

The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects pp. S239 - S274

Ismael Mourifié and Aloysius Siow

Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle pp. S275 - S315

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa-Dias, David Goll and Costas Meghir

Volume 39, issue 4, 2021

Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment pp. 825 - 860

Katharine Abraham, John Haltiwanger, Claire Hou, Kristin Sandusky and James R. Spletzer

The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data pp. 861 - 894

Brigham R. Frandsen

Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit? pp. 895 - 929

Katherine Michelmore and Natasha Pilkauskas

Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences pp. 931 - 964

Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel and Tyler Ransom

Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94 pp. 965 - 1010

Marianne Bertrand, Magne Mogstad and Jack Mountjoy

Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law pp. 1011 - 1042

Anders Frederiksen and Colleen Flaherty Manchester

Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice pp. 1043 - 1082

Erica Blom, Brian Cadena and Benjamin Keys

Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions pp. 1083 - 1128

Riley Wilson

Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses pp. 1129 - 1154

Riley Acton

Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools pp. 1155 - 1186

Simon Burgess, Shenila Rawal and Eric S. Taylor

Volume 39, issue 3, 2021

Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–2015 pp. 597 - 637

Joseph Ferrie, Catherine Massey and Jonathan Rothbaum

US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings pp. 639 - 671

Xuening Wang

State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data pp. 673 - 707

Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton H. Hamilton, Ankit Kalda and David Sovich

Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment pp. 709 - 738

Haoran He, David Neumark and Qian Weng

Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System pp. 739 - 785

Brendon McConnell and Imran Rasul

Violence and Human Capital Investments pp. 787 - 823

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Livia Menezes

Volume 39, issue 2, 2021

The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees pp. 303 - 360

Joseph Altonji and Ling Zhong

Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 361 - 395

Christian Belzil, Arnaud Maurel and Modibo Sidibé

Why Is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education pp. 397 - 435

Steven W. Hemelt, Kevin Stange, Fernando Furquim, Andrew Simon and John E. Sawyer

Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals pp. 437 - 460

Suzanne H. Bijkerk, Silvia Dominguez-Martinez, Jurjen Kamphorst and Otto H. Swank

How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail pp. 461 - 496

Peter Kuhn and Lizi Yu

Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes pp. 497 - 525

Herbert Brücker, Albrecht Glitz, Adrian Lerche and Agnese Romiti

Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South pp. 527 - 558

Daniel Aaronson, Bhashkar Mazumder, Seth Sanders and Evan Taylor

How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility pp. 559 - 595

Aline Bütikofer and Giovanni Peri

Volume 39, issue 1, 2021

Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment pp. 1 - 36

Magdalena Bennett and Peter Bergman

Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the United States: A Panel Analysis pp. 37 - 78

Deborah Rho and Seth Sanders

Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example pp. 79 - 113

Evan K. Rose

Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful Than Others? pp. 115 - 133

Edward P. Lazear

Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs? pp. 135 - 191

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

How Do Employers Use Compensation History? Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 193 - 218

Moshe A. Barach and John J. Horton

Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance pp. 219 - 262

Christine Mulhern

Adjusting to Globalization in Germany pp. 263 - 302

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Suedekum