Journal of Human Resources

1966 - 2025

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Volume 50, issue 4, 2015

Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education pp. 837-872

Celeste K. Carruthers and Marianne H. Wanamaker

Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells?: Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market pp. 873-909

Henry S. Farber and Robert Valletta

Ironing Out Deficiencies: Evidence from the United States on the Economic Effects of Iron Deficiency pp. 910-958

Gregory Niemesh

All Internal in the Family?: Measuring Spillovers from Public Health Insurance pp. 959-979

Thomas G. Koch

The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments pp. 980-1008

Michael Darden and Ian McCarthy

The Relative Quality of Foreign-Educated Nurses in the United States pp. 1009-1050

Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

Child Control in Education Decisions: An Evaluation of Targeted Incentives to Learn in India pp. 1051-1080

James Berry

Social Insurance Networks pp. 1081-1113

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Volume 50, issue 3, 2015

Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement pp. 549-579

Nicole M. Fortin, Philip Oreopoulos and Shelley Phipps

From the Battlefield to the Schoolyard: The Short- Term Impact of the Post- 9/11 GI Bill pp. 580-613

Andrew Barr

Impact of Changes in Marriage Law: Implications for Fertility and School Enrollment pp. 614-654

Prashant Bharadwaj

What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants “Take Their Jobs†? pp. 655-693

Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo Fiorio and Giovanni Peri

Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration pp. 694-727

William Olney

Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output pp. 728-758

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects: Evidence from a Randomized Trial pp. 759-810

Arndt Reichert

Changes in the Distribution of Earnings Volatility pp. 811-836

Shane T. Jensen and Stephen H. Shore

Volume 50, issue 2, 2015

What Are We Weighting For? pp. 301-316

Gary Solon, Steven Haider and Jeffrey Wooldridge

A Practitioner’s Guide to Cluster-Robust Inference pp. 317-372

A. Cameron and Douglas Miller

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples pp. 373-419

Guido Imbens

Control Function Methods in Applied Econometrics pp. 420-445

Jeffrey Wooldridge

Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries pp. 446-463

Norbert Schady, Jere Behrman, M. Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson and Renos Vakis

The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota pp. 464-483

Marta Rubio-Codina, Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Natalia Varela and Sally Grantham-McGregor

Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters pp. 484-515

Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah

All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catchup Campaigns in Africa pp. 516-547

Ariel BenYishay and Keith Kranker

Volume 50, issue 1, 2015

Long-Term Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations pp. 1-33

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren

Immigration and the Human Capital of Natives pp. 34-71

Peter McHenry

Employer Learning and the “Importance†of Skills pp. 72-107

Audrey Light and Andrew McGee

Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra pp. 108-158

Kalena E. Cortes, Joshua Goodman and Takako Nomi

The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra: Evidence from District Policy Initiatives pp. 159-188

Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence from School Inspections pp. 189-221

Iftikhar Hussain

Wages, Youth Employment, and School Enrollment: Recent Evidence from Increases in World Oil Prices pp. 222-253

René Morissette, Ping Ching Winnie Chan and Yuqian Lu

To Love or to Pay: Savings and Health Care in Older Age pp. 254-299

Loretti Dobrescu

Volume 49, issue 4, 2014

Bullying in Elementary School pp. 839-871

Tine Louise Eriksen, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

Estimating Heterogeneous Takeup and Crowd-Out Responses to Existing Medicaid Income Limits and their Nonmarginal Expansions pp. 872-905

John Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik and Lara Shore-Sheppard

Ability, Parental Valuation of Education, and the High School Dropout Decision pp. 906-944

Kelly Foley, Giovanni Gallipoli and David Green

Teacher Pay Reform and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence from Adoptions of Q-Comp in Minnesota pp. 945-981

Aaron Sojourner and Elton Mykerezi

Staying for Benefits: The Effect of a Health and Family Planning Program on Out-Migration Patterns in Bangladesh pp. 982-1013

Tania Barham and Randall Kuhn

Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program pp. 1014-1052

Marian Meller and Stephan Litschig

Do Religious Proscriptions Matter?: Evidence from a Theory-Based Test pp. 1053-1093

Daniel Hungerman

Is Smoking Inferior?: Evidence from Variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 1094-1120

Donald Kenkel, Maximilian Schmeiser and Carly Urban

Volume 49, issue 3, 2014

Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-Use Data

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Almudena Sevilla

The FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

Susan H. Busch, Ezra Golberstein and Ellen Meara

When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers?: New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

Joshua Angrist, Philip Oreopoulos and Tyler Williams

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School:: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Ama Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler and Leigh L. Linden

Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

The Medium-Term Effects of Scholarships in a Low-Income Country

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

The Importance of Cost of Living and Education in Estimates of the Conditional Wage Gap Between Black and White Women

Peter McHenry and Melissa McInerney

Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the United States: New Results

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

Volume 49, issue 2, 2014

Economic Background and Educational Attainment: The Role of Gene-Environment Interactions

Owen Thompson

The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on College Admissions Policies and Student Quality

Kate Antonovics and Ben Backes

Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

Stacy B. Dale and Alan Krueger

Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador

Monique De Haan, Erik Plug and Jose Rosero

Where There Is a Will: Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families

Tarun Jain

Dangerous Liquidity and the Demand for Health Care: Evidence from the 2008 Stimulus Payments

Tal Gross and Jeremy Tobacman

Relative Deprivation and Risky Behaviors

Ana Balsa, Michael T. French and Tracy Regan

Search and Nonwage Job Characteristics

Paul Sullivan and Ted To

Volume 49, issue 1, 2014

Income Inequality and Early Nonmarital Childbearing pp. 1-31

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip Levine

Government Regulation and the Quality of Healthcare: Evidence from Minimum Staffing Legislation for Nursing Homes pp. 32-72

Jordan Matsudaira

Industrialization and Bilingualism in India pp. 73-109

David Clingingsmith

Crime and Mental Well-Being pp. 110-140

Francesca Cornaglia, Naomi Feldman and Andrew Leigh

Height and Earnings: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills pp. 141-166

Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

Improving Takeup of Health Insurance Program: A Social Experiment in France pp. 167-194

Sophie Guthmuller, Florence Jusot and Jérôme Wittwer

The Health Consequences of Retirement pp. 195-233

Michael Insler

Estimating Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Peer Effects on Body Weight Using Roommate Assignments as a Natural Experiment pp. 234-261

Olga Yakusheva, Kandice A. Kapinos and Daniel Eisenberg