| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Does globalization affect growth? Evidence from a new index of globalization | Applied Economics | 2006 | 2,207 |
| 2 | The saving and investment nexus for China: evidence from cointegration tests | Applied Economics | 2005 | 2,160 |
| 3 | Tourism as a long-run economic growth factor: the Spanish case | Applied Economics | 2002 | 985 |
| 4 | CAPITAL FLOWS AND CAPITAL-MARKET CRISES: The Simple Economics of Sudden Stops | Journal of Applied Economics | 1998 | 913 |
| 5 | The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2012 | 881 |
| 6 | The economics of BitCoin price formation | Applied Economics | 2016 | 696 |
| 7 | The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2015 | 690 |
| 8 | Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 637 |
| 9 | Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 627 |
| 10 | Oil price shocks and real GDP growth: empirical evidence for some OECD countries | Applied Economics | 2005 | 588 |
| 11 | Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 576 |
| 12 | Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 564 |
| 13 | Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 508 |
| 14 | Information from Markets Near and Far: Mobile Phones and Agricultural Markets in Niger | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 507 |
| 15 | Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2012 | 503 |
| 16 | Are There Missing Girls in the United States? Evidence from Birth Data | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 483 |
| 17 | In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 468 |
| 18 | Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 463 |
| 19 | Bitcoins as an investment or speculative vehicle? A first look | Applied Economics Letters | 2015 | 457 |
| 20 | Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2016 | 451 |
| 21 | Tests for causality between integrated variables using asymptotic and bootstrap distributions: theory and application | Applied Economics | 2006 | 443 |
| 22 | Predicting entrepreneurial behaviour: a test of the theory of planned behaviour | Applied Economics | 2013 | 442 |
| 23 | Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 437 |
| 24 | Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 433 |
| 25 | Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 412 |
| 26 | An empirical examination of long-run purchasing power parity using cointegration techniques | Applied Economics | 1988 | 409 |
| 27 | The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2007 | 398 |
| 28 | Improving College Access and Success for Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Large Need-Based Grant Program | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2015 | 397 |
| 29 | Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Turkey? | Applied Economics Letters | 2005 | 389 |
| 30 | Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 385 |
| 31 | Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2017 | 381 |
| 32 | Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 376 |
| 33 | Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 369 |
| 34 | Evaluating credit risk and loan performance in online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending | Applied Economics | 2015 | 367 |
| 35 | Index Funds, Financialization, and Commodity Futures Markets | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2011 | 366 |
| 36 | Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 363 |
| 37 | A comparative study of efficiency in European banking | Applied Economics | 2003 | 362 |
| 38 | The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2011 | 361 |
| 39 | Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 359 |
| 40 | Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2015 | 357 |
| 41 | The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 356 |
| 42 | A gravity model analysis of international migration to North America | Applied Economics | 2000 | 354 |
| 43 | Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 352 |
| 44 | Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 343 |
| 45 | A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 340 |
| 46 | Do regulated microfinance institutions achieve better sustainability and outreach? Cross-country evidence | Applied Economics | 2007 | 329 |
| 47 | Discovering Niche Markets: A Comparison of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local (Colorado Grown), Organic, and GMO-Free Products | Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics | 2002 | 323 |
| 48 | Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance During Pregnancy | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2011 | 320 |
| 49 | Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting | Applied Economics Quarterly | 2009 | 316 |
| 50 | Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2017 | 313 |
| 51 | Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 303 |
| 52 | An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 303 |
| 53 | Bootstrapping the autoregressive distributed lag test for cointegration | Applied Economics | 2018 | 302 |
| 54 | Stock prices and the effective exchange rate of the dollar | Applied Economics | 1992 | 300 |
| 55 | Relationships between economic growth, foreign direct investment and trade: evidence from China | Applied Economics | 2002 | 299 |
| 56 | The economic consequences of euro-area macro-modelling shortcuts | Applied Economics | 2010 | 298 |
| 57 | Determinants of international tourism: a three-dimensional panel data analysis | Applied Economics | 2004 | 293 |
| 58 | Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 291 |
| 59 | Technical efficiency of European railways: a distance function approach | Applied Economics | 2000 | 287 |
| 60 | Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 283 |
| 61 | Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 280 |
| 62 | Crypto-currency bubbles: an application of the Phillips–Shi–Yu (2013) methodology on Mt. Gox bitcoin prices | Applied Economics | 2015 | 275 |
| 63 | The Economics of Grain Price Volatility | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2011 | 274 |
| 64 | On economic growth, FDI and exports in China | Applied Economics | 2006 | 273 |
| 65 | Dynamic Implications of Subjective Expectations: Evidence from Adult Smokers | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2014 | 273 |
| 66 | The J-Curve: a literature review | Applied Economics | 2004 | 271 |
| 67 | Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 269 |
| 68 | Turning on the Lights: A Meta-Analysis of Residential Electricity Demand Elasticities | Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics | 2004 | 267 |
| 69 | Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 266 |
| 70 | Technical efficiency and scale efficiency in the Italian banking sector: a non-parametric approach | Applied Economics | 1995 | 265 |
| 71 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 265 |
| 72 | Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors | Applied Economics | 2006 | 264 |
| 73 | Real Wage Inequality | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 264 |
| 74 | Structural Change in OECD Export Specialisation Patterns: de-specialisation and ‘stickiness’ | International Review of Applied Economics | 1998 | 263 |
| 75 | The location of foreign direct investment: an empirical analysis | Applied Economics | 1999 | 262 |
| 76 | Assessing excess liquidity in the euro area: the role of sectoral distribution of money | Applied Economics | 2011 | 262 |
| 77 | Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 261 |
| 78 | Learning about an Infrequent Event: Evidence from Flood Insurance Take-Up in the United States | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2014 | 261 |
| 79 | Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2013 | 258 |
| 80 | Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 255 |
| 81 | Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 255 |
| 82 | Farm household efficiency in Bangladesh: a comparison of stochastic frontier and DEA methods | Applied Economics | 2000 | 254 |
| 83 | Understanding New Cooperative Models: An Ownership-Control Rights Typology | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2004 | 250 |
| 84 | Which panel data estimator should I use? | Applied Economics | 2011 | 250 |
| 85 | Keeping It Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2014 | 249 |
| 86 | Portfolio mix and large-bank profitability in the USA | Applied Economics | 1997 | 245 |
| 87 | Devil or Angel? The Role of Speculation in the Recent Commodity Price Boom (and Bust) | Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics | 2009 | 240 |
| 88 | (Over)insuring Modest Risks | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 239 |
| 89 | Revisiting the Digital Divide in the COVID‐19 Era | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | 2021 | 238 |
| 90 | Identification of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 237 |
| 91 | Macroeconomic Determinants of Stock Market Development | Journal of Applied Economics | 1999 | 235 |
| 92 | Gravity models: a reformulation and an application to discriminatory trade arrangements | Applied Economics | 1994 | 233 |
| 93 | Augmented Gravity Model: An Empirical Application to Mercosur-European Union Trade Flows | Journal of Applied Economics | 2003 | 232 |
| 94 | The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2016 | 232 |
| 95 | Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2015 | 231 |
| 96 | Separated at Girth: US Twin Estimates of the Effects of Birth Weight | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 | 230 |
| 97 | The lag structure of returns to research and development | Applied Economics | 1982 | 229 |
| 98 | Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 229 |
| 99 | Teacher Incentives | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2010 | 228 |
| 100 | Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2019 | 226 |
