Journal of Human Resources

1966 - 2025

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2013

Using Incentives to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children

David Just and Joseph Price

Long-Term and Spillover Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Income

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Hans van Kippersluis, Owen O’Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Native Competition and Low-Skilled Immigrant Inflows

Brian Cadena

Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Greg Duncan and Aaron Sojourner

How Responsive are Quits to Benefits?

Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein

Gender Wage Gaps Reconsidered: A Structural Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Cristian Bartolucci

Parental Loss and Children’s Well-Being

Lea Gimenez, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Jin-Long Liu

Popularity

Gabriella Conti, Andrea Galeotti, Gerrit Müller and Stephen Pudney

Volume 48, issue 3, 2013

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny

College Major Choice and the Gender Gap

Basit Zafar

Adoption Subsidies and Placement Outcomes for Children in Foster Care

Kasey Buckles

Wage Mobility of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States

Seik Kim

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

German Blanco, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

How Does Child Labor Affect the Demand for Adult Labor?

Kirk Doran

Caught in the Bulimic Trap?

John Ham, Daniela Iorio and Michelle Sovinsky

Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market

Steffen Reinhold and Kevin Thom

Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence?:Evidence from Expansions to Castle Doctrine

Cheng Cheng and Mark Hoekstra

Volume 48, issue 2, 2013

Peers, Pressure, and Performance at the National Spelling Bee

Jonathan Smith

The Impact of Repealing Sunday Closing Laws on Educational Attainment

Dara N. Lee

Targeted Business Incentives and Local Labor Markets

Matthew Freedman

Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk

Raj Arunachalam and Manisha Shah

Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health

Sarah Baird, Jacobus de Hoop and Berk Özler

The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior

Libertad Gonzalez and Berkay Özcan

Breaking the Caste Barrier: Intergenerational Mobility in India

Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri and Sourabh Paul

Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions

Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi

Volume 48, issue 1, 2013

The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom pp. 1-35

Michael Lovenheim and Curtis Reynolds

Prenatal Sex Selection and Missing Girls in China: Evidence from the Diffusion of Diagnostic Ultrasound pp. 36-70

Yuyu Chen, Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng

Discrimination Begins in the Womb: Evidence of Sex-Selective Prenatal Investments pp. 71-113

Prashant Bharadwaj and Leah Lakdawala

Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India pp. 114-141

Klaus Deininger, Aparajita Goyal and Hari Nagarajan

Do Mothers Decide? The Impact of Preferences in Healthcare pp. 142-168

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune Sørensen

The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records pp. 169-197

Fernández-Kranz Daniel, Aitor Lacuesta and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection pp. 198-235

Gopi Goda and Colleen Flaherty Manchester

Noncognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School pp. 236-264

Christopher Cornwell, David Mustard and Jessica Van Parys

Volume 47, issue 4, 2012

What Did You Do All Day?: Maternal Education and Child Outcomes

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja

The Impact of College on Migration: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation

Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak

Gender Differences in Cognition among Older Adults in China

Xiaoyan Lei, Yuqing Hu, John J. McArdle, James Smith and Yaohui Zhao

Insult to Injury: Disability, Earnings, and Divorce

Perry Singleton

Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long-term Effects of Political Violence in Perú

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

Compensating Differentials and Income Taxes: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?

David Powell

Does Stock Market Performance Influence Retirement Intentions?

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns and Medicaid Enrollment of the Elderly

Lara Gardner and Donna Gilleskie

Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

David Neumark

Volume 47, issue 3, 2012

Revising Our Thinking About the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool

Maria Fitzpatrick

Birth Spacing and Sibling Outcomes

Kasey Buckles and Elizabeth Munnich

School-Entry Policies and Skill Accumulation Across Directly and Indirectly Affected Individuals

Kelly Bedard and Elizabeth Dhuey

The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment

Nina Guyon, Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

Beyond Levels and Growth: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and its Persistence

Josh Kinsler

Using Brazil’s Racial Continuum to Examine the Short-Term Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education

Andrew M. Francis and Maria Tannuri-Pianto

Does Information Improve the Health Behavior of Adults Targeted by a Conditional Transfer Program?

Ciro Avitabile

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker: Prenatal Pollution Exposure and Educational Outcomes

Nicholas Sanders

Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination

Michèle Belot, V Bhaskar and Jeroen van de Ven

Volume 47, issue 2, 2012

Human Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in India

Gauri Shastry

Elderly Care and Intrafamily Resource Allocation when Children Migrate

Francisca Antman

Schooling, Child Labor, and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

Thomas Dee and Brian A. Jacob

Do Affirmative Action Bans Lower Minority College Enrollment and Attainment?: Evidence from Statewide Bans

Ben Backes

Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care

David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara and Seth Richards-Shubik

Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?

Mariesa A. Herrmann and Jonah E. Rockoff

Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime

Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin

Like Godfather, Like Son: Exploring the Intergenerational Nature of Crime

Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist

Volume 47, issue 1, 2012

Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil pp. 1-31

Rodrigo Soares, Diana Kruger and Matias Berthelon

School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania pp. 32-63

Florence Kondylis and Marco Manacorda

New Evidence of the Causal Effect of Family Size on Child Quality in a Developing Country pp. 64-106

Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza

Risk-Coping through Sexual Networks: Evidence from Client Transfers in Kenya pp. 107-145

Jonathan Robinson and Ethan Yeh

Does Clean Water Make You Dirty?: Water Supply and Sanitation in the Philippines pp. 146-173

Daniel Bennett

Month of Birth and Children’s Health in India pp. 174-203

Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin

Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings: Methods and Evidence pp. 204-236

Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk

The Effects of Reducing Tracking in Upper Secondary School: Evidence from a Large-Scale Pilot Scheme pp. 237-269

Caroline Hall

Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor Revisited pp. 270-285

David Sjoquist and John Winters