| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Lancet Commission on pollution and health | Lancet, The | 2018 | 2,747 |
| 2 | Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children | Science | 2006 | 2,334 |
| 3 | A test for independence based on the correlation dimension | Econometric Reviews | 1996 | 2,109 |
| 4 | The Technology of Skill Formation | American Economic Review | 2007 | 1,914 |
| 5 | The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies | American Economic Review | 2005 | 1,773 |
| 6 | Redefine statistical significance | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 1,763 |
| 7 | Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade | American Economic Review | 2008 | 1,349 |
| 8 | Hard evidence on soft skills | Labour Economics | 2012 | 1,063 |
| 9 | Policies to foster human capital | Research in Economics | 2000 | 1,024 |
| 10 | Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation | Econometrica | 2010 | 1,007 |
| 11 | Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes | American Economic Review | 2013 | 1,001 |
| 12 | The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,000 |
| 13 | Robust Control and Model Uncertainty | American Economic Review | 2001 | 955 |
| 14 | Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation1 | Econometrica | 2005 | 888 |
| 15 | The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle? | American Economic Review | 2002 | 885 |
| 16 | The rate of return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program | Journal of Public Economics | 2010 | 843 |
| 17 | Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health | Science | 2014 | 807 |
| 18 | The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 785 |
| 19 | Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 763 |
| 20 | Finite-Sample Properties of Some Alternative GMM Estimators | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 1996 | 711 |
| 21 | SCHOOLS, SKILLS, AND SYNAPSES | Economic Inquiry | 2008 | 708 |
| 22 | The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment | American Economic Review | 2012 | 708 |
| 23 | Macroeconomic Priorities | American Economic Review | 2003 | 667 |
| 24 | An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence From French Firms | Econometrica | 2011 | 603 |
| 25 | Inflation and Welfare | Econometrica | 2000 | 590 |
| 26 | Monetary Policy According to HANK | American Economic Review | 2018 | 584 |
| 27 | Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents | Review of Economic Dynamics | 1998 | 572 |
| 28 | The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice | Journal of Development Economics | 1999 | 559 |
| 29 | Efficiency, Equilibrium, and Asset Pricing with Risk of Default | Econometrica | 2000 | 522 |
| 30 | The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility | Annual Review of Economics | 2014 | 505 |
| 31 | Farsighted Coalitional Stability | Journal of Economic Theory | 1994 | 500 |
| 32 | Monetary policy and price level determinacy in a cash-in-advance economy | Economic Theory | 1994 | 497 |
| 33 | New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 491 |
| 34 | Local instrumental variables and latent variable models for identifying and bounding treatment effects | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 474 |
| 35 | Matching and Sorting in Online Dating | American Economic Review | 2010 | 471 |
| 36 | The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2004 | 467 |
| 37 | Group lending, local information and peer selection | Journal of Development Economics | 1999 | 431 |
| 38 | Efficient Unemployment Insurance | Journal of Political Economy | 1999 | 421 |
| 39 | Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment | American Economic Review | 2007 | 421 |
| 40 | Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future | European Economic Review | 2009 | 417 |
| 41 | The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2007 | 398 |
| 42 | Permanent and Transitory Components of GNP and Stock Prices | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1994 | 391 |
| 43 | Estimating Marginal Returns to Education | American Economic Review | 2011 | 387 |
| 44 | Panel Data Discrete Choice Models with Lagged Dependent Variables | Econometrica | 2000 | 378 |
| 45 | The Education-Health Gradient | American Economic Review | 2010 | 371 |
| 46 | 2001 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice* | International Economic Review | 2003 | 362 |
| 47 | The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries | Econometrica | 2006 | 347 |
| 48 | What makes you click?—Mate preferences in online dating | Quantitative Marketing and Economics | 2010 | 342 |
| 49 | Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior | American Economic Review | 2012 | 337 |
| 50 | Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply | American Economic Review | 2002 | 324 |
