| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1996 | 3,865 |
| 2 | Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination | American Economic Review | 2004 | 3,272 |
| 3 | Financial Intermediation, Loanable Funds, and The Real Sector | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1997 | 2,773 |
| 4 | Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2002 | 2,568 |
| 5 | The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 1,610 |
| 6 | Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1999 | 1,495 |
| 7 | Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India | Econometrica | 2004 | 1,365 |
| 8 | Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2000 | 1,321 |
| 9 | Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks | American Economic Review | 2015 | 1,266 |
| 10 | The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth | American Economic Review | 2005 | 1,211 |
| 11 | Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,200 |
| 12 | A model of price adjustment | Journal of Economic Theory | 1971 | 1,162 |
| 13 | Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990 | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1993 | 1,154 |
| 14 | The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations | Econometrica | 2012 | 1,100 |
| 15 | The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply | American Economic Review | 2012 | 1,062 |
| 16 | A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations | Nature | 2003 | 1,059 |
| 17 | Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,049 |
| 18 | Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2003 | 1,032 |
| 19 | Income and Democracy | American Economic Review | 2008 | 1,031 |
| 20 | Fairness and Redistribution | American Economic Review | 2005 | 1,020 |
| 21 | Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | 2012 | 1,015 |
| 22 | A Theory of Political Transitions | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,009 |
| 23 | Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1996 | 938 |
| 24 | An Equilibrium Model of “Global Imbalances” and Low Interest Rates | American Economic Review | 2008 | 922 |
| 25 | Target Zones and Exchange Rate Dynamics | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1991 | 829 |
| 26 | History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India | American Economic Review | 2005 | 811 |
| 27 | Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions | American Economic Review | 2008 | 790 |
| 28 | The Diffusion of Microfinance | Science | 2013 | 788 |
| 29 | Equity, envy, and efficiency | Journal of Economic Theory | 1974 | 773 |
| 30 | The Persistent Effects of Peru's MiningMita | Econometrica | 2010 | 705 |
| 31 | The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration? | American Economic Review | 1999 | 658 |
| 32 | Money Illusion | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1997 | 654 |
| 33 | New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities | American Economic Review | 1999 | 645 |
| 34 | Behavior and Energy Policy | Science | 2010 | 622 |
| 35 | The Choice Between Market Failures and Corruption | American Economic Review | 2000 | 533 |
| 36 | Atrial fibrillation and risks of cardiovascular disease, renal disease, and death: systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ, The | 2016 | 528 |
| 37 | Sparse Models and Methods for Optimal Instruments With an Application to Eminent Domain | Econometrica | 2012 | 527 |
| 38 | Corruption in Developing Countries | Annual Review of Economics | 2012 | 521 |
| 39 | An MCMC approach to classical estimation | Journal of Econometrics | 2003 | 510 |
| 40 | Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects | Journal of Economic Literature | 2021 | 501 |
| 41 | Perfect Bayesian equilibrium and sequential equilibrium | Journal of Economic Theory | 1991 | 492 |
| 42 | FIRST NATURE, SECOND NATURE, AND METROPOLITAN LOCATION | Journal of Regional Science | 1993 | 482 |
| 43 | Insuring Consumption Against Illness | American Economic Review | 2002 | 451 |
| 44 | Consideration set influences on consumer decision-making and choice: Issues, models, and suggestions | Marketing Letters | 1991 | 448 |
| 45 | Single Crossing Properties and the Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information | Econometrica | 2001 | 426 |
| 46 | The incidence of mandated maternity benefits | American Economic Review | 1994 | 424 |
| 47 | Misclassification of the dependent variable in a discrete-response setting | Journal of Econometrics | 1998 | 420 |
| 48 | Demographic structure and the political economy of public education | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management | 1997 | 419 |
| 49 | Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet | Econometrica | 2009 | 419 |
| 50 | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms | Science | 2020 | 417 |
