| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic adult mortality advantage | Demography | 2004 | 744 |
| 2 | Overweight, Obesity, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adolescents: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health | Pediatrics | 2005 | 562 |
| 3 | Recent trends in marital disruption | Demography | 1989 | 528 |
| 4 | National Estimates of Cohabitation | Demography | 1989 | 433 |
| 5 | What’s happening to the family? Interactions between demographic and institutional change | Demography | 1990 | 359 |
| 6 | Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2001 | 283 |
| 7 | Couple childbearing desires, intentions, and births | Demography | 1997 | 278 |
| 8 | Reproducing inequalities: Luck, wallets, and the enduring effects of childhood health | Demography | 2006 | 250 |
| 9 | The Changing Character of Stepfamilies: Implications of Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing | Demography | 1995 | 247 |
| 10 | Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens | Advances in Life Course Research | 2020 | 181 |
| 11 | Children and marital disruption: A replication and update | Demography | 1984 | 180 |
| 12 | Migradollars and mortality: The effects of migration on infant survival in Mexico | Demography | 1999 | 167 |
| 13 | Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States | Annual Review of Sociology | 1995 | 165 |
| 14 | Redefining Single-Parent Families: Cohabitation and Changing Family Reality | Demography | 1995 | 159 |
| 15 | Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 159 |
| 16 | Demographic and health conditions of ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2002 | 152 |
| 17 | Age and marital status at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility | Demography | 1978 | 137 |
| 18 | Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviewing for Household Drug Use Surveys | Substance Use and Misuse | 1991 | 136 |
| 19 | Childhood Socioeconomic Position and Objectively Measured Physical Capability Levels in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 121 |
| 20 | Socioeconomic Status and Health at Midlife A Comparison of Educational Attainment with Occupation-Based Indicators | Annals of Epidemiology | 2001 | 108 |
| 21 | Association of Playing High School Football With Cognition and Mental Health Later in Life | JAMA Neurology | 2017 | 104 |
| 22 | What's happening to the family? Interactions between demographic and institutional change | Demography | 1990 | 91 |
| 23 | A Preference‐Opportunity‐Choice Framework with Applications to Intergroup Friendship | American Journal of Sociology | 2008 | 89 |
| 24 | Unmarried Motherhood: Recent Trends, Composition, and Black–White Differences | Demography | 1989 | 87 |
| 25 | Low-Income Fathers’ Influence on Children | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | 2011 | 83 |
| 26 | Ethnic niching and metropolitan labor markets | Social Science Research | 2003 | 81 |
| 27 | Are births underreported in rural China? Manipulation of statistical records in response to China’s population policies | Demography | 2000 | 78 |
| 28 | Recent trends in marital disruption | Demography | 1989 | 78 |
| 29 | National estimates of cohabitation | Demography | 1989 | 77 |
| 30 | The effects of infant mortality on fertility revisited: new evidence from latin america | Demography | 1999 | 73 |
| 31 | Aging and Health Status of Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean: Preliminary Findings | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology | 2007 | 73 |
| 32 | Changing Identification among American Indians and Alaska Natives | Demography | 1993 | 72 |
| 33 | Changes in racial identification and the educational attainment of American Indians, 1970–1990 | Demography | 1998 | 71 |
| 34 | Structural racism, economic opportunity and racial health disparities: Evidence from U.S. counties | SSM - Population Health | 2020 | 66 |
| 35 | Becoming Centenarians: Disease and Functioning Trajectories of Older U.S. Adults as They Survive to 100 | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2015 | 62 |
| 36 | The Revolution in Birth Control Practices of U.S. Roman Catholics | Science | 1973 | 58 |
| 37 | Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? | Demography | 2002 | 58 |
| 38 | The effects of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on mortality at early ages | Demography | 1986 | 56 |
| 39 | Population and Deforestation in Costa Rica | Population and Environment | 1998 | 56 |
| 40 | Age at marriage and completed family size | Social Biology | 1977 | 55 |
| 41 | Women, men, and contraceptive sterilization | Fertility and Sterility | 2000 | 55 |
| 42 | Nonmetropolitan growth in the late 1970s: The end of the turnaround? | Demography | 1985 | 54 |
| 43 | Longitudinal analysis of deciduous tooth emergence: II. Parametric survival analysis in Bangladeshi, Guatemalan, Japanese, and Javanese children | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1998 | 54 |
| 44 | The changing character of stepfamilies: implications of cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing | Demography | 1995 | 54 |
| 45 | Early life exposures and the occurrence and timing of heart disease among the older adult Puerto Rican population | Demography | 2010 | 53 |
| 46 | Remarriage Patterns of Black and White Women: Reassessing the Role of Educational Attainment | Demography | 1990 | 51 |
| 47 | The myth of the glass ceiling: Evidence from a stock-flow analysis of authority attainment | Social Science Research | 2011 | 49 |
| 48 | Cost and Radiation Savings of Partial Substitution of Ultrasound for CT in Appendicitis Evaluation: A National Projection | American Journal of Roentgenology | 2014 | 48 |
| 49 | The Influence of Informal Work and Subjective Well-Being on Childbearing in Post-Soviet Russia | Population and Development Review | 2006 | 47 |
| 50 | An event history analysis of age at last menstrual period: correlates of natural and surgical menopause among midlife Wisconsin women | Social Science and Medicine | 1998 | 46 |
