# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2766136866) · 3,443 citations
2. [The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123015728) · 3,062 citations
3. [The theory of economic development – An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2587468467) · 2,092 citations
4. [The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1884571572) · 1,691 citations
5. [Government Spending Multipliers in Good Times and in Bad: Evidence from US Historical Data](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1905678139) · 1,467 citations
6. [Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2593137067) · 1,438 citations
7. [Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2754962058) · 1,426 citations
8. [Revisiting the social cost of carbon](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2584212846) · 1,391 citations
9. [Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2747207142) · 1,366 citations
10. [Valuing health-related quality of life: An EQ-5D-5L value set for England](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2343426002) · 1,355 citations
11. [SRISK: A conditional capital shortfall measure of systemic risk](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3122471459) · 1,353 citations
12. [Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2724299548) · 1,259 citations
13. [The irreversible momentum of clean energy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2567784893) · 1,238 citations
14. [An Economic Evaluation of the Impact, Cost, and Medicare Policy Implications of Chronic Nonhealing Wounds](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2755970326) · 1,219 citations
15. [EQ-5D and the EuroQol Group: Past, Present and Future](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2587851012) · 1,190 citations · Free PDF
16. [Financing Innovation: Evidence from R&D Grants](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3125374115) · 1,121 citations
17. [The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2736007343) · 1,019 citations
18. [Urban agglomeration: An evolving concept of an emerging phenomenon](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2591877092) · 1,014 citations
19. [Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries: a retrospective observational study](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2772759979) · 1,012 citations
20. [The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2185032033) · 1,003 citations · Free PDF
21. [What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3021959460) · 1,003 citations
22. [Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the United States](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2752061982) · 962 citations
23. [The Deposits Channel of Monetary Policy*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3121380054) · 961 citations
24. [Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2323231065) · 921 citations
25. [Narrative Economics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4233731957) · 919 citations

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