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The Journal of Human Resources

Publishing work in economics that employs the best available empirical methods.


Edited by Sandra E. Black, The University of Texas at Austin
ISSN: 0022-166X, e-ISSN: 1548-8004
Published four times per year

 

The Journal of Human Resources is among the leading journals in empirical microeconomics. Intended for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, each issue examines research in a variety of fields including labor economics, development economics, health economics, and the economics of education, discrimination, and retirement. Founded in 1965, the JHR features articles that make scientific contributions in research relevant to public policy practitioners.

 

JHR is one of the most highly cited journal in the Industrial Relations and Labor fields per ISI Journal Citation Reports. The 2011 ISI Journal Citation Reports© Ranking:
Labor & Industrial Relations: 1/2
Economics: 27/321
Impact Factor: 2.371
5-Year Impact Factor: 3.162

 

Special Issues:
Noncognitive Skills and Their Development: Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 43 #4
Cross-National Comparative Research Using Panel Surveys: Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38 #2

 

Turnaround statistics for first-round submissions:
Average time to decision: 30.55 days
Median time to decision: 9 days
Acceptance rate: 5-8%

 

Awards

The Journals of Human Resources wins Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for 2011

Citation of Excellence Award

The Journal of Human Resources article, "Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement" by Thomas S. Dee
(The Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2007, vol. XLII no. 3, p. 528-554, doi: 10.3368/jhr.XLII.3.528, http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/3/528.abstract) has won one of the prestigious Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for 2011. It has been chosen as one of the top 50 articles with proven impact since its publication date (2007 in this case, to allow for citation impact to be accurately measured) from the top 300 management journals in the world.

 

Emerald Management Reviews is an abstracting and indexing database that covers every article in the top 300 business, management and economics journals worldwide including titles such as: Harvard Business Review; Journal of Finance; Journal of Marketing; Strategic Management Journal; MIT Sloan Management Review; Long Range Planning; Academy of Management Journal; and MIS Quarterly. 15,000 article abstracts are added to the database annually and so receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement.

 

Now in e-book format: special issues of The Journal of Human Resources

Sample content from The Journal of Human Resources, without a subscription. These e-books, developed from topical, special issues of the journal, provide broadened access to the work of important thinkers and researchers who have applied their talents to topics of wide interest.

 

Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs, Special Issue of The Journal of Human Resources 38: Supplement (2003), Edited by John Karl Scholz and James P. Ziliak
Cross-National Comparative Research Using Panel Surveys, Special Issue of The Journal of Human Resources 38:2 (Spring 2003), Edited by James P. Smith, Frank Stafford, and James R. Walker
Noncognitive Skills and Their Development, Special Issue of The Journal of Human Resources 43:4 (Fall 2008), Edited by Thomas J. Kniesner and Bas ter Weel

 

In memoriam:

Former managing editor, Barbara Dennis.

 

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Available on JSTOR & Project MUSE

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The complete back run of all JHR issues back to Volume 1, 1966 is available online at academic and public libraries and research institutions that subscribe to the JSTOR digital archive. Please click here to access The Journal of Human Resources through JSTOR.

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Online access is available as part of the Project MUSE collections. Please click here to access The Journal of Human Resources through Project MUSE.

 

Back Issues

Some back content for The Journal of Human Resources is available online. Anyone may view TOC's, abstracts, and a free sample issue on our HighWire platform at jhr.uwpress.org/. Single articles may be purchased online through the JSTOR archive or through jhr.uwpress.org/.

 

Printed back issues may be purchased from the University of Wisconsin Press for $27 each for US addresses, $37 for international addresses. Call (608) 263-0668, or e-mail  journals@uwpress.wisc.edu  to check current availability. For single copies of specific articles, click here.

 

 

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