Journal of Human Capital
Last updated ISSN 1932-8575
Journal of Human Capital is published by University of Chicago Press in economics, econometrics and finance. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Human Capital concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- School Choice and Performance
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1932-8575, 1932-8664 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 368 |
| Publishing since | 2004 |
| Journal website | www.journals.uchicago.edu/jhc |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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