Most-cited Economics papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Natural climate solutions
   Bronson W. Griscom, Justin Adams et al. · 2017 · 3,443 citations
2. The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
   Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn · 2017 · 3,062 citations
3. The theory of economic development – An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle
   Michael J. Fritsch · 2017 · 2,092 citations
4. The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market*
   David J Deming · 2017 · 1,691 citations
5. Government Spending Multipliers in Good Times and in Bad: Evidence from US Historical Data
   Valerie Ramey, Sarah Zubairy · 2017 · 1,467 citations
6. Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies
   Robert J. Johnston, Kevin Boyle et al. · 2017 · 1,438 citations
7. Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?
   Arno M. Riedl, Paul Smeets · 2017 · 1,426 citations
8. Revisiting the social cost of carbon
   William D. Nordhaus · 2017 · 1,391 citations
9. Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)
   A. Stewart Fotheringham, Wenbai Yang et al. · 2017 · 1,366 citations
10. Valuing health-related quality of life: An EQ-5D-5L value set for England
    Nancy J. Devlin, Koonal Kirit Shah et al. · 2017 · 1,355 citations
11. SRISK: A conditional capital shortfall measure of systemic risk
    Christian T. Brownlees, Robert F. Engle · 2017 · 1,353 citations
12. Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
    Solomon Hsiang, Robert E. Kopp et al. · 2017 · 1,259 citations
13. The irreversible momentum of clean energy
    Barack Obama · 2017 · 1,238 citations
14. An Economic Evaluation of the Impact, Cost, and Medicare Policy Implications of Chronic Nonhealing Wounds
    Samuel R. Nussbaum, Marissa Janine Carter et al. · 2017 · 1,219 citations
15. EQ-5D and the EuroQol Group: Past, Present and Future
    Nancy J. Devlin, Richard G. Brooks · 2017 · 1,190 citations · Free PDF
16. Financing Innovation: Evidence from R&D Grants
    Sabrina T Howell · 2017 · 1,121 citations
17. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions
    Seth Wynes, Kimberly A. Nicholas · 2017 · 1,019 citations
18. Urban agglomeration: An evolving concept of an emerging phenomenon
    Chuanglin Fang, Danlin Yu · 2017 · 1,014 citations
19. Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries: a retrospective observational study
    Adam Robert Wagstaff, Gabriela Flores et al. · 2017 · 1,012 citations
20. The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness
    Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Misato Sato · 2017 · 1,003 citations · Free PDF
21. What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
    David Card, Jochen Kluve et al. · 2017 · 1,003 citations
22. Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the United States
    Kyle Handley, Nuno Limão · 2017 · 962 citations
23. The Deposits Channel of Monetary Policy*
    Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov et al. · 2017 · 961 citations
24. Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
    David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso et al. · 2017 · 921 citations
25. Narrative Economics
    Robert J. Shiller · 2017 · 919 citations

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