Lance Lochner

Institution: University of Western Ontario

Primary Field: Labor (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: plo31 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	2.02	6.39	0.40	0.34	9.15	94%
Last 10 Years	6.05	6.39	2.76	0.34	15.54	95%
All Time	31.62	8.41	3.43	0.67	44.13	97%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 21

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 16.90

Publications (21)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2026	Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments	Journal of Political Economy	S	4
2024	Earnings dynamics and intergenerational transmission of skill	Journal of Econometrics	A	2
2023	Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited	Journal of Human Resources	A	4
2022	The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?	Journal of Labor Economics	A	2
2022	Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms	Quantitative Economics	B	5
2021	Innis Lecture: Returns on student loans in Canada	Canadian Journal of Economics	C	3
2021	Parental Support, Savings, and Student Loan Repayment	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	3
2020	Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family	Journal of Political Economy	S	2
2017	RED Special Issue on Human Capital and Inequality, an introduction	Review of Economic Dynamics	B	3
2017	The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply	American Economic Review	S	2
2017	Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why Do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?	Scandanavian Journal of Economics	B	3
2016	Introduction to the Special Issue on Education and Crime	Economics of Education Review	B	2
2015	Estimating and Testing Models with Many Treatment Levels and Limited Instruments	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	2
2014	Post‐secondary attendance by parental income in the U.S. and Canada: Do financial aid policies explain the differences?	Canadian Journal of Economics	C	3
2012	The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit	American Economic Review	S	2
2011	The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital	American Economic Review	S	2
2007	Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System	American Economic Review	S	1
2004	The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports	American Economic Review	S	2
1998	Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation.	American Economic Review	S	3
1998	General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy.	American Economic Review	S	3
1998	Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explanations With A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings With Heterogeneous Agents	Review of Economic Dynamics	B	3