| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks | Journal of Economic Theory | 1996 | 1,958 |
| 2 | Modelling the persistence of conditional variances | Econometric Reviews | 1986 | 1,638 |
| 3 | GMM estimation with cross sectional dependence | Journal of Econometrics | 1999 | 1,627 |
| 4 | Testing for Common Trends | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1988 | 1,400 |
| 5 | Political instability and economic growth | Journal of Economic Growth | 1996 | 1,084 |
| 6 | Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and economic growth | Journal of Economic Theory | 1992 | 1,016 |
| 7 | Risk Shocks | American Economic Review | 2014 | 985 |
| 8 | Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Economics | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 1995 | 888 |
| 9 | Habit Persistence, Asset Returns, and the Business Cycle | American Economic Review | 2001 | 781 |
| 10 | Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India | Science | 2012 | 758 |
| 11 | Too much finance? | Journal of Economic Growth | 2015 | 715 |
| 12 | The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2015 | 690 |
| 13 | Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention | American Economic Review | 2009 | 681 |
| 14 | A simple approach to quantile regression for panel data | Econometrics Journal | 2011 | 636 |
| 15 | Variable Trends in Economic Time Series | Journal of Economic Perspectives | 1988 | 527 |
| 16 | Estimation and Confidence Regions for Parameter Sets in Econometric Models | Econometrica | 2007 | 506 |
| 17 | Testing for Common Trends | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1988 | 473 |
| 18 | Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock? | Journal of Development Economics | 1998 | 461 |
| 19 | The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries | Annual Review of Economics | 2015 | 424 |
| 20 | Market Structure and Multiple Equilibria in Airline Markets | Econometrica | 2009 | 421 |
| 21 | Nonlinear Aspects of Goods-Market Arbitrage and Adjustment: Heckscher's Commodity Points Revisited | Journal of the Japanese and International Economies | 1997 | 414 |
| 22 | The Bootstrap | Handbook of Econometrics | 2001 | 378 |
| 23 | Small-Sample Bias in GMM Estimation of Covariance Structures | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 1996 | 377 |
| 24 | Fiscal shocks and their consequences | Journal of Economic Theory | 2004 | 344 |
| 25 | Common Stochastic Trends in a System of Exchange Rates | Journal of Finance | 1989 | 342 |
| 26 | Social Learning Through Networks: The Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Ghana | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2001 | 308 |
| 27 | Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation | Science | 2017 | 294 |
| 28 | All-Pay Contests | Econometrica | 2009 | 283 |
| 29 | Naked Exclusion: Comment | American Economic Review | 2000 | 281 |
| 30 | Dynamic Mechanism Design: A Myersonian Approach | Econometrica | 2014 | 263 |
| 31 | Understanding the Effects of a Shock to Government Purchases | Review of Economic Dynamics | 1999 | 256 |
| 32 | Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment | American Economic Review | 2012 | 252 |
| 33 | Commitment and observability in games | Games and Economic Behavior | 1995 | 251 |
| 34 | The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions | American Economic Review | 2018 | 251 |
| 35 | Mergers When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry | American Economic Review | 2015 | 248 |
| 36 | How effective are macroprudential policies? An empirical investigation | Journal of Financial Intermediation | 2018 | 240 |
| 37 | Secular Stagnation: A Supply-Side View | American Economic Review | 2015 | 234 |
| 38 | Time Varying Structural Vector Autoregressions and Monetary Policy: A Corrigendum | Review of Economic Studies | 2015 | 229 |
| 39 | Mechano-acoustic sensing of physiological processes and body motions via a soft wireless device placed at the suprasternal notch | Nature Biomedical Engineering | 2020 | 223 |
| 40 | Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference | American Economic Review | 2017 | 221 |
| 41 | Demographic Influences on Risk Perceptions | Risk Analysis | 1993 | 217 |
| 42 | Bad Reputation | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2003 | 217 |
| 43 | Partial Identification in Econometrics | Annual Review of Economics | 2010 | 216 |
| 44 | The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families | American Economic Review | 2016 | 209 |
| 45 | Common Stochastic Trends in a System of Exchange Rates | Journal of Finance | 1989 | 209 |
| 46 | Understanding the Great Recession | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | 2015 | 200 |
| 47 | On the optimality of privacy in sequential contracting | Journal of Economic Theory | 2006 | 198 |
| 48 | The future of the nonprofit sector: Its entwining with private enterprise and government | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management | 1997 | 196 |
| 49 | Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities | American Economic Review | 2004 | 194 |
| 50 | Gender differentials in farm productivity: implications for household efficiency and agricultural policy | Food Policy | 1995 | 186 |
