| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation | American Economic Review | 2001 | 7,321 |
| 2 | Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle | American Economic Review | 2003 | 4,619 |
| 3 | Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects | American Economic Review | 2002 | 4,354 |
| 4 | ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition | American Economic Review | 2000 | 4,033 |
| 5 | Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics | American Economic Review | 2003 | 3,783 |
| 6 | Does Trade Cause Growth? | American Economic Review | 1999 | 3,700 |
| 7 | Shocks and Frictions in US Business Cycles: A Bayesian DSGE Approach | American Economic Review | 2007 | 3,449 |
| 8 | Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments | American Economic Review | 2000 | 3,365 |
| 9 | The Twin Crises: The Causes of Banking and Balance-of-Payments Problems | American Economic Review | 1999 | 3,315 |
| 10 | Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination | American Economic Review | 2004 | 3,272 |
| 11 | Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market | American Economic Review | 2009 | 2,986 |
| 12 | Politically Connected Firms | American Economic Review | 2006 | 2,915 |
| 13 | The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country | American Economic Review | 2003 | 2,837 |
| 14 | The Next Generation of the Penn World Table | American Economic Review | 2015 | 2,792 |
| 15 | Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms | American Economic Review | 2004 | 2,752 |
| 16 | Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela | American Economic Review | 1999 | 2,580 |
| 17 | Aid, Policies, and Growth | American Economic Review | 2000 | 2,467 |
| 18 | The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States | American Economic Review | 2013 | 2,463 |
| 19 | Doing It Now or Later | American Economic Review | 1999 | 2,416 |
| 20 | Incentives and Prosocial Behavior | American Economic Review | 2006 | 2,358 |
| 21 | Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems | American Economic Review | 2010 | 2,225 |
| 22 | Estimating the Value of Political Connections | American Economic Review | 2001 | 2,212 |
| 23 | The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development | American Economic Review | 2004 | 2,197 |
| 24 | The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market | American Economic Review | 2013 | 2,177 |
| 25 | Estimation and Inference of Impulse Responses by Local Projections | American Economic Review | 2005 | 2,075 |
| 26 | In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies | American Economic Review | 2001 | 2,060 |
| 27 | Tunneling | American Economic Review | 2000 | 2,009 |
| 28 | Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through Backward Linkages | American Economic Review | 2004 | 1,993 |
| 29 | Plants and Productivity in International Trade | American Economic Review | 2003 | 1,977 |
| 30 | Is Free Trade Good for the Environment? | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,955 |
| 31 | The Technology of Skill Formation | American Economic Review | 2007 | 1,914 |
| 32 | Measuring Uncertainty | American Economic Review | 2015 | 1,862 |
| 33 | The Environment and Directed Technical Change | American Economic Review | 2012 | 1,858 |
| 34 | Do Investors Trade Too Much? | American Economic Review | 1999 | 1,813 |
| 35 | Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence | American Economic Review | 2009 | 1,810 |
| 36 | What Do a Million Observations on Banks Say About the Transmission of Monetary Policy? | American Economic Review | 2000 | 1,780 |
| 37 | The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies | American Economic Review | 2005 | 1,773 |
| 38 | Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles, and Financial Crises, 1870–2008 | American Economic Review | 2012 | 1,743 |
| 39 | Performance Pay and Productivity | American Economic Review | 2000 | 1,716 |
| 40 | House Prices, Borrowing Constraints, and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle | American Economic Review | 2005 | 1,661 |
| 41 | Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects | American Economic Review | 2020 | 1,626 |
| 42 | Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond | American Economic Review | 2000 | 1,607 |
| 43 | Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach | American Economic Review | 1999 | 1,594 |
| 44 | Growth in a Time of Debt | American Economic Review | 2010 | 1,589 |
| 45 | Liberalization, Moral Hazard in Banking, and Prudential Regulation: Are Capital Requirements Enough? | American Economic Review | 2000 | 1,535 |
| 46 | CoVaR | American Economic Review | 2016 | 1,533 |
| 47 | Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space | American Economic Review | 2012 | 1,526 |
| 48 | Libertarian Paternalism | American Economic Review | 2003 | 1,506 |
| 49 | Output Fluctuations in the United States: What Has Changed Since the Early 1980's? | American Economic Review | 2000 | 1,488 |
| 50 | Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach | American Economic Review | 2004 | 1,453 |
