Most-cited Economics papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*
   Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom et al. · 2016 · 12,580 citations
2. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview
   Keywan Riahi, Detlef Peter van Vuuren et al. · 2016 · 6,604 citations · Free PDF
3. Cross‐validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure
   David R. Roberts, Volker Bahn et al. · 2016 · 3,338 citations
4. Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses
   Gillian D Sanders, Peter J. Neumann et al. · 2016 · 3,056 citations · Free PDF
5. CoVaR
   Tobias Adrian, Markus Konrad Brunnermeier · 2016 · 2,450 citations
6. Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation
   Gerard Hoberg, Gordon M. Phillips · 2016 · 2,253 citations
7. Measuring Systemic Risk
   Viral V. Acharya, Lasse Heje Pedersen et al. · 2016 · 1,893 citations
8. Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound
   Jing Cynthia Wu, Fan Dora Xia · 2016 · 1,886 citations
9. Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
   Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre et al. · 2016 · 1,590 citations · Free PDF
10. The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money
    Tavneet Suri, William G. Jack · 2016 · 1,583 citations
11. A century of trends in adult human height
    James Bentham, Frank Jakobus Rühli et al. · 2016 · 1,548 citations
12. Entrepreneurship, Social Mobility, and Income Redistribution in South India
    E. Wayne Nafziger · 2016 · 1,535 citations
13. Cohort Profile: The National Health Insurance Service–National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC), South Korea
    Juneyoung Lee, Ji Sung Lee et al. · 2016 · 1,473 citations
14. The Surprisingly Swift Decline of US Manufacturing Employment
    Justin R. Pierce, Peter K. Schott · 2016 · 1,390 citations
15. Social and economic impacts of climate
    Tamma A. Carleton, Solomon Hsiang · 2016 · 1,353 citations
16. The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
    David Autor, David Dorn et al. · 2016 · 1,317 citations
17. BEHAVIOR OF THE FIRM UNDER REGULATORY CONSTRAINT
    Harvey A. Averch, Leland L. Johnson · 2016 · 1,280 citations
18. The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
    Robert Falkner · 2016 · 1,256 citations · Free PDF
19. Railroads and American Economic Growth: A “Market Access” Approach *
    Dave Donaldson, Richard A. Hornbeck · 2016 · 1,255 citations
20. State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics
    Kevin Zheng Zhou, Gerald Yong Gao et al. · 2016 · 1,210 citations
21. SF-36 total score as a single measure of health-related quality of life: Scoping review
    Liliane Lins-Kusterer, Fernándo Martins Carvalho · 2016 · 1,147 citations
22. Consumer's Surplus Without Apology
    Robert D. Willig · 2016 · 1,137 citations
23. Dutch Tariff for the Five-Level Version of EQ-5D
    Matthijs Versteegh, Karin Marianne Vermeulen et al. · 2016 · 1,110 citations
24. A Regional Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of Alternative Climate-Change Strategies
    William D. Nordhaus, Zili Yang · 2016 · 1,105 citations
25. The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century
    Oliver Fricko, Peter Havlík et al. · 2016 · 1,077 citations

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