# Most-cited Economics papers of 2019, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2019, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3021644002) · 3,924 citations
2. [The Importance of Climate Risks for Institutional Investors](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2906323621) · 3,073 citations
3. [The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2942870997) · 2,735 citations
4. [Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2922903482) · 2,564 citations
5. [The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2963096903) · 2,359 citations
6. [The KOF Globalisation Index – revisited](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2785400778) · 2,030 citations · Free PDF
7. [Is Green Growth Possible?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2937421004) · 1,990 citations
8. [Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund Flows](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3125586325) · 1,606 citations
9. [Hedging Climate Change News](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4214836379) · 1,479 citations
10. [Attention to Global Warming](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2884202799) · 1,159 citations
11. [Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2971899496) · 1,075 citations
12. [The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2974545260) · 1,069 citations
13. [A systematic review of quality of life research in medicine and health sciences](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2951537042) · 1,003 citations · Free PDF
14. [Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2947439144) · 964 citations
15. [Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification: Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2780094620) · 941 citations
16. [The Return to Protectionism*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2922100653) · 941 citations
17. [Global warming has increased global economic inequality](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2939349760) · 930 citations
18. [The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2982296987) · 889 citations
19. [Size and value in China](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123671626) · 883 citations
20. [Dynamic impact of trade policy, economic growth, fertility rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on ecological footprint in Europe](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2946778077) · 836 citations
21. [mgwr: A Python Implementation of Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression for Investigating Process Spatial Heterogeneity and Scale](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2948613401) · 826 citations · Free PDF
22. [Exchange Arrangements Entering the Twenty-First Century: Which Anchor will Hold?*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2907798246) · 818 citations · Free PDF
23. [Monetary Policy and the Redistribution Channel](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2185580901) · 796 citations
24. [Public Debt and Low Interest Rates](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2918799501) · 784 citations
25. [Does Climate Change Affect Real Estate Prices? Only If You Believe In It](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2903751886) · 742 citations

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