---
title: "NLSY: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 77 archived papers mentioned NLSY in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2025 (6)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nlsy
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nlsy.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 77 archived papers mentioned NLSY in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2025 (6). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# NLSY

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.md)

US panel and cross-section surveys of households and workers: income, wealth, spending, health and work.

- data category: US household and labour surveys
- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, NLSY, NLSY79, NLSY97

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All US household and labour surveys datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-household-and-labour-surveys.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 77 archived papers mentioned NLSY in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2025 (6).
- NLSY was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), NLSY was mentioned in 131 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (80), health economics and policy (29) and management (8).
- 30 of them were published in 2025, against 10 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (9), Centre for Economic Policy Research (5) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Labour Economics (7), Empirical Economics (6) and Review of Economics of the Household (5).
- The most-cited of them is “The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S.” (Economics & Human Biology, 2017), with 97 citations.
- Papers use NLSY most often with Bureau of Labor Statistics (14), Current Population Survey (11) and German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (9); it has 15 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 25 | 28 | 24 | 77 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 16 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 30 | 21 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 6 |
| 3 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Journal of Business Venturing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of Family and Economic Issues](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-family-and-economic-issues.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Review of Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economic-dynamics.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Erasmus University Rotterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/erasmus-university-rotterdam.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore.md) | 3 |
| 6 | Boston University | 2 |
| 7 | Central European University | 2 |
| 8 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Columbia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/columbia-university.md) | 2 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 37 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 3 | Germany | 14 |
| 4 | Italy | 9 |
| 5 | Australia | 7 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 7 |
| 7 | Canada | 6 |
| 8 | China | 6 |
| 9 | Spain | 6 |
| 10 | France | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [educational attainment](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment.md) | 7 |
| 3 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 | 6 |
| 4 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth | 5 |
| 5 | labor market outcomes | 5 |
| 6 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | 4 |
| 7 | earnings | 4 |
| 8 | educational inequality | 4 |
| 9 | [human capital](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/human-capital.md) | 4 |
| 10 | life course | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 | 0.8 | [The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S.](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.04.004) | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2017-04-19 | Jay L. Zagorsky, Patricia K. Smith |
| 2 | 56 | 0.5 | [Cognitive performance and labour market outcomes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.12.008) | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 2017-12-20 | Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter, Christopher J. Ruhm |
| 3 | 49 | 0.4 | [Student Employment and Persistence: Evidence of Effect Heterogeneity of Student Employment on College Dropout](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-017-9458-y) | [Research in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-higher-education.md) | 2017-04-18 | Yool Choi |
| 4 | 46 | 0.5 | [A quantile correlated random coefficients panel data model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.06.004) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-07-07 | Bryan S. Graham, Jinyong Hahn, Alexandre Poirier et al. |
| 5 | 38 | 0.4 | [Crime and the minimum wage](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2019.02.002) | [Review of Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economic-dynamics.md) | 2019-02-13 | Christine Braun |

## Used together with

Papers use NLSY most often with Bureau of Labor Statistics (14), Current Population Survey (11) and German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (9); it has 15 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use NLSY together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-labor-statistics.md) | Dataset | 14 | 13.9 |
| [Current Population Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/current-population-survey.md) | Dataset | 11 | 20.6 |
| [German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/german-socio-economic-panel-soep.md) | Dataset | 9 | 11.2 |
| [PSID](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/psid.md) | Dataset | 6 | 11.0 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.2 |
| [O*NET](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/o-net.md) | Dataset | 5 | 16.8 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.4 |
| [Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-economic-analysis.md) | Dataset | 4 | 7.2 |
| [IPUMS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ipums.md) | Dataset | 4 | 9.7 |
| [OECD statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/oecd-statistics.md) | Dataset | 4 | 4.2 |
| [SIPP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sipp.md) | Dataset | 4 | 26.4 |
| [American Community Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey.md) | Dataset | 3 | 3.7 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning NLSY in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Predicting food waste from dynamic inconsistency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107810) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | Alexander M. Danzer, Helen Zeidler | Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; Rockwool Foundation Berlin; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). NLSY. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nlsy

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-nlsy,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {NLSY},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nlsy}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).