Journal of Human Resources

1966 - 2025

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2019

Does Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities?: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X pp. 825-856

Martha Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoë M. McLaren

The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance pp. 857-899

Eric Hanushek, Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold

Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Parental Engagement: The Parents and Children Together Intervention pp. 900-925

Susan Mayer, Ariel Kalil, Philip Oreopoulos and Sebastian Gallegos

Speech and Wages pp. 926-952

Jeffrey Grogger

An Economic Approach to Generalizing Findings from Regression-Discontinuity Designs pp. 953-985

Nirav Mehta

Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from California Community Colleges pp. 986-1036

Ann Stevens, Michal Kurlaender and Michel Grosz

The Persistent Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Air Pollution: Evidence from the Indonesian Forest Fires pp. 1037-1080

Maria Rosales-Rueda and Margaret Triyana

Does Contractual Form Matter?: The Impact of Different Types of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty on College Students’ Academic Outcomes pp. 1081-1120

Florence Xiaotao and Ran Di Xu

The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications pp. 1121-1153

Briggs Depew and Isaac D. Swensen

More Is Less?: The Impact of Family Size on Education Outcomes in the United States, 1850–1940 pp. 1154-1181

Hui Ren Tan

Volume 54, issue 3, 2019

One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text-Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers pp. 537-566

Benjamin N. York, Susanna Loeb and Christopher Doss

More Than Just a Nudge: Supporting Kindergarten Parents with Differentiated and Personalized Text Messages pp. 567-603

Christopher Doss, Erin M. Fahle, Susanna Loeb and Benjamin N. York

More Than Just a Nudge: Supporting Kindergarten Parents with Differentiated and Personalized Text Messages pp. 604-655

Andrew S. Griffen

Childcare Quality and Child Development pp. 656-682

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Dormal and Norbert Schady

More than Dollars for Scholars: The Impact of the Dell Scholars Program on College Access, Persistence, and Degree Attainment pp. 683-725

Lindsay C. Page, Stacy S. Kehoe, Benjamin L. Castleman and Gumilang Sahadewo

Heterogeneity of the Carnegie Effect pp. 726-759

Erlend Bø, Elin Halvorsen and Thor Thoresen

Born under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints pp. 760-784

Jeffrey Denning

The Long-Term Effects of Early Life Medicaid Coverage pp. 785-824

Sarah Miller and Laura Wherry

Volume 54, issue 2, 2019

The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift pp. 267-309

Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov

Do Altruistic Mental Health Care Providers Have Better Treatment Outcomes? pp. 310-341

Rudy Douven, Minke Remmerswaal and Robin Zoutenbier

Gainfully Employed?: Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data pp. 342-370

Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Nick Turner

Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion pp. 371-400

Øystein Hernæs, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Settling for Academia?: H-1B Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States pp. 401-429

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado

The Effect of Same-Gender or Same-Race Role Models on Occupation Choice: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Mentors at West Point pp. 430-467

Michael Kofoed and Elizabeth mcGovney

The Effect of Increasing Education Efficiency on University Enrollment: Evidence from Administrative Data and an Unusual Schooling Reform in Germany pp. 468-502

Jan Marcus and Vaishali Zambre

Child Schooling and Child Work in the Presence of a Partial Education Subsidy pp. 503-531

Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio Rosati

Volume 54, issue 1, 2019

Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies pp. 1-36

Matthew Kraft

The Effects of Aggregate and Gender-Specific Labor Demand Shocks on Child Health pp. 37-78

Marianne Page, Jessamyn Schaller and David Simon

Democracy and Demography: Societal Effects of Fertility Limits on Local Leaders pp. 79-121

S Anukriti and Abhishek Chakravarty

The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement pp. 122-170

Stacey H. Chen, Yen-Chien Chen and Jin-Tan Liu

Economic Shocks and Labor Market Flexibility pp. 171-199

Simon Franklin and Julien Labonne

Keeping the Production Line Running: Internal Substitution and Employee Absence pp. 200-224

Lena Hensvik and Olof Rosenqvist

Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks pp. 225-254

Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard

Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data pp. 255-265

Garry Barrett and Daniel Hamermesh

Volume 53, issue 4, 2018

Effective Policy for Reducing Poverty and Inequality?: The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income pp. 859-890

Hilary Hoynes and Ankur J. Patel

The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 pp. 891-917

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores pp. 918-956

Christopher Avery, Oded Gurantz, Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith

Rise and Shine: The Effect of School Start Times on Academic Performance from Childhood through Puberty pp. 957-992

Jennifer Heissel and Samuel Norris

Does Teaching Children How to Play Cognitively Demanding Games Improve Their Educational Attainment?: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Chess Instruction in England pp. 993-1021

John Jerrim, Lindsey Macmillan, John Micklewright, Mary Sawtell and Meg Wiggins

Manila to Malaysia, Quezon to Qatar: International Migration and Its Effects on Origin-Country Human Capital pp. 1022-1049

Caroline Theoharides

Going beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training pp. 1050-1099

Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Head Start’s Long-Run Impact: Evidence from the Program’s Introduction pp. 1100-1139

Owen Thompson

Volume 53, issue 3, 2018

Africa’s Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers’ Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance? pp. 553-578

Jan Bietenbeck, Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold

When Measure Matters: Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries pp. 589-607

M. Shahe Emran, William Greene and Forhad Shilpi

The Effect of Immigration on Wages: Exploiting Exogenous Variation at the National Level pp. 608-662

Joan Llull

Will You Still Want Me Tomorrow?: The Dynamics of Families’ Long-Term Care Arrangements pp. 663-716

Bridget Hiedemann, Michelle Sovinsky and Steven Stern

Drug Violence and Migration Flows: Lessons from the Mexican Drug War pp. 717-749

Sandra Orozco-Aleman and Heriberto Gonzalez-Lozano

Weather Shocks, Agriculture, and Crime: Evidence from India pp. 750-782

David Blakeslee and Ram Fishman

The Effect of Competition on Executive Compensation and Incentives: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment pp. 783-824

Ana Fernandes, Priscila Ferreira and L. Winters

Diversity and Employment Prospects: Neighbors Matter! pp. 825-858

Camille Hemet and Clément Malgouyres

Volume 53, issue 2, 2018

Student Coaching: How Far Can Technology Go? pp. 299-329

Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic

Developing Hope among Impoverished Children: Using Child Self-Portraits to Measure Poverty Program Impacts pp. 330-355

Paul Glewwe, Phillip Ross and Bruce Wydick

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime pp. 356-381

Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording

How Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives?: Considering Husbands’ and Wives’ Benefits Separately pp. 382-413

Alice M. Henriques

Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Brazil pp. 414-444

Braz Camargo, Rafael Camelo, Sergio Firpo and Vladimir Ponczek

Family Labor Supply and the Timing of Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 445-473

Tzu-Ting Yang

Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World: Evidence from a School Construction Experiment pp. 474-512

Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau

Occupational Mobility, Occupation Distance, and Specific Human Capital pp. 513-551

Chris Robinson

Volume 53, issue 1, 2018

Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China: How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors pp. 1-31

George Borjas, Kirk Doran and Ying Shen

Changes in Returns to Task-Specific Skills and Gender Wage Gap pp. 32-70

Shintaro Yamaguchi

Missing Work Is a Pain: The Effect of Cox-2 Inhibitors on Sickness Absence and Disability Pension Receipt pp. 71-122

Aline Bütikofer and Meghan Skira

The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children’s Outcomes and Parental Behavior pp. 123-156

Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

The Impact of Secondary Schooling in Kenya: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis pp. 157-188

Owen Ozier

Birth Weight in the Long Run pp. 189-231

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

Measuring the Effects of Welfare Time Limits pp. 232-271

Marc Chan

Siblings, Teachers, and Spillovers on Academic Achievement pp. 272-297

Javaeria Qureshi