# 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*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3126081245) · 12,580 citations
2. [The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2410390527) · 6,604 citations · Free PDF
3. [Cross‐validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2560136348) · 3,338 citations
4. [Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2519603001) · 3,056 citations · Free PDF
5. [CoVaR](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4246715751) · 2,450 citations
6. [Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123123374) · 2,253 citations
7. [Measuring Systemic Risk](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4230327943) · 1,893 citations
8. [Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3125912523) · 1,886 citations
9. [Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3021625863) · 1,590 citations · Free PDF
10. [The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2559928430) · 1,583 citations
11. [A century of trends in adult human height](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2461148724) · 1,548 citations
12. [Entrepreneurship, Social Mobility, and Income Redistribution in South India](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2992481041) · 1,535 citations
13. [Cohort Profile: The National Health Insurance Service–National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC), South Korea](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2341326607) · 1,473 citations
14. [The Surprisingly Swift Decline of US Manufacturing Employment](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1539576063) · 1,390 citations
15. [Social and economic impacts of climate](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2508555133) · 1,353 citations
16. [The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1906461530) · 1,317 citations
17. [BEHAVIOR OF THE FIRM UNDER REGULATORY CONSTRAINT](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1524717168) · 1,280 citations
18. [The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2509016426) · 1,256 citations · Free PDF
19. [Railroads and American Economic Growth: A “Market Access” Approach *](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2172070297) · 1,255 citations
20. [State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2530259327) · 1,210 citations
21. [SF-36 total score as a single measure of health-related quality of life: Scoping review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2529363256) · 1,147 citations
22. [Consumer's Surplus Without Apology](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1530172293) · 1,137 citations
23. [Dutch Tariff for the Five-Level Version of EQ-5D](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2334353679) · 1,110 citations
24. [A Regional Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of Alternative Climate-Change Strategies](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1506643520) · 1,105 citations
25. [The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2473101521) · 1,077 citations

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