| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India | Demography | 2001 | 3,884 |
| 2 | Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data-or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India | Demography | 2001 | 2,936 |
| 3 | A theory of migration | Demography | 1966 | 2,754 |
| 4 | The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality | Demography | 1979 | 2,030 |
| 5 | Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition | Demography | 2004 | 1,078 |
| 6 | Maternal employment and time with children: Dramatic change or surprising continuity? | Demography | 2000 | 942 |
| 7 | The role of public health improvements in health advances: The twentieth-century United States | Demography | 2005 | 864 |
| 8 | Does Marriage Matter? | Demography | 1995 | 863 |
| 9 | Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic adult mortality advantage | Demography | 2004 | 744 |
| 10 | The long arm of childhood: The influence of early-life social conditions on men’s mortality | Demography | 2004 | 742 |
| 11 | Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 | Demography | 2005 | 710 |
| 12 | Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Black and Hispanic Segregation Along Five Dimensions | Demography | 1989 | 664 |
| 13 | Religious involvement and U.S. adult mortality | Demography | 1999 | 663 |
| 14 | Unhealthy assimilation: Why do immigrants converge to American health status levels? | Demography | 2006 | 645 |
| 15 | Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in the United States: Evidence from available systematic data sources | Demography | 2000 | 638 |
| 16 | The age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century | Demography | 1996 | 617 |
| 17 | Family Size and the Quality of Children | Demography | 1981 | 599 |
| 18 | Residential Satisfaction as an Intervening Variable in Residential Mobility | Demography | 1974 | 585 |
| 19 | Birds of a feather, or friend of a friend? using exponential random graph models to investigate adolescent social networks | Demography | 2009 | 575 |
| 20 | What a drop can do: Dried blood spots as a minimally invasive method for integrating biomarkers into population-based research | Demography | 2007 | 568 |
| 21 | The mechanisms mediating the effects of poverty on children’s intellectual development | Demography | 2000 | 553 |
| 22 | The household registration system and social stratification in China: 1955–1996 | Demography | 2004 | 550 |
| 23 | Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and community-level effects | Demography | 2003 | 545 |
| 24 | Recent trends in marital disruption | Demography | 1989 | 528 |
| 25 | Hypersegregation in the twenty-first century | Demography | 2004 | 527 |
| 26 | Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong causal relationship? | Demography | 1998 | 515 |
| 27 | Mortality Differentials by Marital Status: An International Comparison | Demography | 1990 | 497 |
| 28 | The Young Adult Years: Diversity, Structural Change, and Fertility | Demography | 1991 | 487 |
| 29 | Children and the elderly: Divergent paths for America’s dependents | Demography | 1984 | 482 |
| 30 | Sex differences in morbidity and mortality | Demography | 2005 | 477 |
| 31 | The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality | Demography | 1979 | 467 |
| 32 | Segregation of minorities in the metropolis: two decades of change | Demography | 2004 | 452 |
| 33 | Coherent mortality forecasts for a group of populations: An extension of the lee-carter method | Demography | 2005 | 451 |
| 34 | Residential preferences and neighborhood racial segregation: A test of the schelling segregation model | Demography | 1991 | 442 |
| 35 | National Estimates of Cohabitation | Demography | 1989 | 433 |
| 36 | The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. | Demography | 1973 | 421 |
| 37 | Measuring living standards with proxy variables | Demography | 2000 | 420 |
| 38 | Union formation in fragile families | Demography | 2004 | 413 |
| 39 | Measuring and explaining the change in life expectancies | Demography | 1984 | 409 |
| 40 | Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage | Demography | 2009 | 408 |
| 41 | Orphans in Africa: parental death, poverty, and school enrollment | Demography | 2004 | 402 |
| 42 | Cohort and life-course patterns in the relationship between education and health: A hierarchical approach | Demography | 2003 | 401 |
| 43 | Refining the association between education and health: The effects of quantity, credential, and selectivity | Demography | 1999 | 400 |
| 44 | Evaluating the performance of the lee-carter method for forecasting mortality | Demography | 2001 | 390 |
| 45 | Motherhood, labor force behavior, and women’s careers: An empirical assessment of the wage penalty for motherhood in britain, germany, and the united states | Demography | 2009 | 368 |
| 46 | Marital status and mortality: The role of health | Demography | 1996 | 366 |
| 47 | A Theory of the Value of Children | Demography | 1994 | 364 |
| 48 | Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time With Children | Demography | 2012 | 361 |
| 49 | Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind? | Demography | 2005 | 360 |
| 50 | What’s happening to the family? Interactions between demographic and institutional change | Demography | 1990 | 359 |
