Journal of Labor Economics

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Volume 38, issue 4, 2020

Interpreting Experimental Evidence in the Presence of Postrandomization Events: A Reassessment of the Self-Sufficiency Project pp. 873 - 914

Chris Riddell and W. Craig Riddell

Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 915 - 957

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer

Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University: Evidence from Chile pp. 959 - 1007

Alonso Bucarey, Dante Contreras and Pablo Muñoz

Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation pp. 1009 - 1054

Anne Brenøe and Ulf Zölitz

The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites pp. 1055 - 1097

Claudia Persico, David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth

The Labor Market Effects of US Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great Recession pp. 1099 - 1140

Marios Michaelides and Peter Mueser

Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-Run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia pp. 1127 - 1265

Bladimir Carrillo

Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome the Free-Rider Problem pp. 1141 - 1188

Richard Murphy

The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences pp. 1189 - 1225

Amelie Schiprowski

A Method for Disentangling Multiple Treatments from a Regression Discontinuity Design pp. 1267 - 1311

Michael Gilraine

Volume 38, issue 3, 2020

Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term pp. 653 - 685

Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark Kutzbach and Anne E. Polivka

The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks pp. 687 - 725

Matthew Notowidigdo

Head Start and the Distribution of Long-Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 727 - 765

Monique De Haan and Edwin Leuven

The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors pp. 767 - 804

Nicola Bianchi

High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School pp. 805 - 841

Pierre Mouganie and Yaojing Wang

Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation pp. 843 - 872

Cecilia Speroni, Alison Wellington, Paul Burkander, Hanley Chiang, Mariesa Herrmann and Kristin Hallgren

Volume 38, issue 2, 2020

The Unintended Consequences of “Ban the Box”: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden pp. 321 - 374

Jennifer Doleac and Benjamin Hansen

Public and Private Employer Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Teacher Value Added pp. 375 - 420

Michael Bates

High-Dosage Tutoring and Reading Achievement: Evidence from New York City pp. 421 - 452

Roland G. Fryer and Meghan Howard-Noveck

Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness pp. 453 - 500

Markus Nagler, Marc Piopiunik and Martin R. West

A Pleasure That Hurts: The Ambiguous Effects of Elite Tutoring on Underprivileged High School Students pp. 501 - 533

Son Thierry Ly, Eric Maurin and Arnaud Riegert

Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words pp. 535 - 568

Ioana Marinescu and Ronald Wolthoff

Does Parental Quality Matter? Evidence on the Transmission of Human Capital Using Variation in Parental Influence from Death, Divorce, and Family Size pp. 569 - 610

Eric Gould, Avi Simhon and Bruce Weinberg

The Effect of Child Support on Selection into Marriage and Fertility pp. 611 - 652

Daniel Tannenbaum

Volume 38, issue 1, 2020

Does Labor Supply Respond to Transitory Income? Evidence from the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 pp. 1 - 38

David Powell

The Opportunity Costs of Mandatory Military Service: Evidence from a Draft Lottery pp. 39 - 66

Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg and Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment pp. 67 - 93

Robert Valletta, Leila Bengali and Catherine van der List

Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida pp. 95 - 142

Sanni Breining, Joseph Doyle, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik and Jeffrey Roth

Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children: Short- and Long-Run Impacts on Educational Integration pp. 143 - 182

Christina Felfe, Helmut Rainer and Judith Saurer

Raising Aspirations and Higher Education: Evidence from the United Kingdom’s Widening Participation Policy pp. 183 - 214

Lucia Rizzica

Student Loans and Homeownership pp. 215 - 260

Alvaro Mezza, Daniel Ringo, Shane Sherlund and Kamila Sommer

Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes pp. 261 - 320

Rita Ginja, Jenny Jans and Arizo Karimi

Volume 37, issue S2, 2019

Introduction: Labor Markets and Public Policies in the United States and Canada pp. S243 - S252

David Card and Philip Oreopoulos

How Do the US and Canadian Social Safety Nets Compare for Women and Children? pp. S253 - S288

Hilary Hoynes and Mark Stabile

Push and Pull: Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States pp. S289 - S323

Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle

Mortality Inequality in Canada and the United States: Divergent or Convergent Trends? pp. S325 - S353

Michael Baker, Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

Long Time Out: Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States pp. S355 - S397

Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, Matthew Notowidigdo and Matthew Tudball

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment, and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States pp. S399 - S441

Stephen R. G. Jones and W. Craig Riddell

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter? pp. S443 - S490

Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer and Mikal Skuterud

Canada and High-Skill Emigration to the United States: Way Station or Farm System? pp. S491 - S532

Ana Damas de Matos and Daniel Parent

Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States pp. S533 - S594

David Albouy, Alex Chernoff, Chandler Lutz and Casey Warman

Intergenerational Mobility Between and Within Canada and the United States pp. S595 - S641

Marie Connolly, Miles Corak and Catherine Haeck

Economy-Wide Spillovers from Booms: Long-Distance Commuting and the Spread of Wage Effects pp. S643 - S687

David Green, René Morissette, Ben M. Sand and Iain Snoddy

Different Paths? Human Capital Prices, Wages, and Inequality in Canada and the United States pp. S689 - S734

Audra Bowlus, Chris Robinson and Haoming Liu

How Skills and Parental Valuation of Education Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital in Canada pp. S735 - S778

Michael J. Kottelenberg and Steven Lehrer

Volume 37, issue S1, 2019

Introduction: A Good Start? Determinants of Initial Labor Market Success pp. S1 - S9

David Card

Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting pp. S11 - S83

Mohit Agrawal, Joseph Altonji and Richard Mansfield

Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income pp. S85 - S123

Jesse Rothstein

Racial Disparities in the Acquisition of Juvenile Arrest Records pp. S125 - S159

Steven Raphael and Sandra V. Rozo

Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-Sectional Data Sets pp. S161 - S198

Hannes Schwandt and Till von Wachter

Changing Patterns of Geographic Mobility and the Labor Market for Young Adults pp. S199 - S241

Janna E. Johnson and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Volume 37, issue 4, 2019

Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas pp. 1009 - 1059

Ankita Patnaik

Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students pp. 1061 - 1096

David Figlio and Umut Özek

The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Strikes: Evidence from Argentina pp. 1097 - 1139

David Jaume and Alexander Willén

The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework pp. 1141 - 1182

Joshua Goodman

Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control pp. 1183 - 1213

Valerie Smeets, Michael Waldman and Frédéric Warzynski

Estimating Labor Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples pp. 1215 - 1265

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert and Falko Juessen

Referrals and Search Efficiency: Who Learns What and When? pp. 1267 - 1300

Tavis Barr, Raicho Bojilov and Lalith Munasinghe

The Intergenerational Persistence of Self-Employment across China’s Planned Economy Era pp. 1301 - 1330

Minghao Li and Stephan J. Goetz

Volume 37, issue 3, 2019

Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement pp. 621 - 662

Prashant Loyalka, Sean Sylvia, Chengfang Liu, James Chu and Yaojiang Shi

More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships pp. 663 - 713

Luca Merlino, Max Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis

Do High-Wage Jobs Attract More Applicants? Directed Search Evidence from the Online Labor Market pp. 715 - 746

Stefano Banfi and Benjamin Villena-Roldan

"Good" Firms, Worker Flows, and Local Productivity pp. 747 - 792

Michel Serafinelli

Incentivizing Creativity: A Large-Scale Experiment with Performance Bonuses and Gifts pp. 793 - 851

Christiane Bradler, Susanne Neckermann and Arne Warnke

Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence pp. 853 - 904

Joan Monras

Hedonic-Based Labor Supply Substitution and the Ripple Effect of Minimum Wages pp. 905 - 947

Brian J. Phelan

Long-Run Consequences of Exposure to Natural Disasters pp. 949 - 1007

Krzysztof Karbownik and Anthony Wray

Volume 37, issue 2, 2019

Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age pp. 323 - 349

Henry S. Farber, Chris M. Herbst, Dan Silverman and Till von Wachter

When Time Binds: Substitutes for Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours, and the Skilled Gender Wage Gap pp. 351 - 398

Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

Job Tasks, Time Allocation, and Wages pp. 399 - 433

Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd Stinebrickner and Paul Sullivan

Does Increased Exposure to Peers with Adverse Characteristics Reduce Workplace Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the US Army pp. 435 - 466

Francis Murphy

Specific Human Capital and Wait Unemployment pp. 467 - 508

Benedikt Herz

Fighting for Education: Financial Aid and Degree Attainment pp. 509 - 544

Andrew Barr

Rules versus Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico pp. 545 - 579

Ricardo Estrada

Early Childcare and Cognitive Development: Evidence from an Assignment Lottery pp. 581 - 620

Nina Drange and Tarjei Havnes

Volume 37, issue 1, 2019

Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education? pp. 1 - 34

Joshua Goodman, Julia Melkers and Amanda Pallais

Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults pp. 35 - 100

Andrey Fradkin, Frédéric Panier and Ilan Tojerow

More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle pp. 101 - 137

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers pp. 139 - 185

Kai Liu

Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets pp. 187 - 246

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

Endogenous Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Twins pp. 247 - 295

Junjian Yi

How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium pp. 297 - 321

Robert Pollak