Most cited papers in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
What are the most cited papers in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies?
The most cited paper in Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies is "Towards an understanding of inequity." (J. Stacy Adams, 1963), with 5,157 citations. Next come "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence" (4,439) and "Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak" (3,733).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 768 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards an understanding of inequity. J. Stacy Adams · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | Nov 1963 | 5,157 |
| 2 | Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence Richard Ainley Easterlin · Elsevier eBooks | 1974 | 4,439 |
| 3 | Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak John Bound, David A. Jaeger, Regina M. Baker · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1995 | 3,733 |
| 4 | An Introduction to Latent Class Growth Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling Tony Jung, Kandauda A. S. Wickrama · Social and Personality Psychology Compass | 6 Dec 2007 | 3,231 |
| 5 | A standard international socio-economic index of occupational status Harry B. G. Ganzeboom, Paul M. de Graaf, Donald J. Treiman · Social Science Research | Mar 1992 | 3,164 |
| 6 | The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory Glen H. Elder, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Robert L. Crosnoe · Handbooks of sociology and social research | 2003 | 3,157 |
| 7 | The Technology of Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman · American Economic Review | Apr 2007 | 3,103 |
| 8 | The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn · Journal of Economic Literature | Sep 2017 | 3,052 |
| 9 | Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States * Raj G. Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 14 Sep 2014 | 2,976 |
| 10 | Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings? Joshua D. Angrist, Alan B. Krueger · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1991 | 2,614 |
| 11 | The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings David Card · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 2,234 |
| 12 | Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments Thomas Albert DiPrete, Gregory M. Eirich · Annual Review of Sociology | 7 Apr 2006 | 2,070 |
| 13 | Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable1 N. Y. Stanley Budner · Journal of Personality | Mar 1962 | 2,010 |
| 14 | Understanding differences in health behaviors by education David Cutler, Adriana Lleras‐Muney · Journal of Health Economics | 4 Nov 2009 | 1,960 |
| 15 | Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility Miles Corak · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Aug 2013 | 1,919 |
| 16 | International comparisons of educational attainment Robert J. Barro, Jong‐Wha Lee · Journal of Monetary Economics | Dec 1993 | 1,901 |
| 17 | The Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition for Linear Regression Models Ben Jann · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Dec 2008 | 1,885 |
| 18 | Internationally Comparable Measures of Occupational Status for the 1988 International Standard Classification of Occupations Harry B. G. Ganzeboom, Donald J. Treiman · Social Science Research | Sep 1996 | 1,880 |
| 19 | Hard evidence on soft skills James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz · Labour Economics | 25 May 2012 | 1,863 |
| 20 | The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies Ronald Inglehart · American Political Science Review | Dec 1971 | 1,746 |
| 21 | Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects Samuel R. Lucas · American Journal of Sociology | May 2001 | 1,675 |
| 22 | The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Evan Schofer, John W. Meyer · American Sociological Review | Dec 2005 | 1,664 |
| 23 | How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? Greg J. Duncan, Wei‐Jun Jean Yeung, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn et al. · American Sociological Review | Jun 1998 | 1,631 |
| 24 | Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Susanne M. Schennach · Econometrica | 2010 | 1,612 |
| 25 | All for All: Equality, Corruption, and Social Trust Bo Rothstein, Eric M. Uslaner · World Politics | Oct 2005 | 1,527 |
| 26 | Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development Janet Currie · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 2009 | 1,518 |
| 27 | Danish education registers Vibeke Myrup Jensen, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen · Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | Jul 2011 | 1,512 |
| 28 | Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility Richard J. Breen, Jan Ö. Jönsson · Annual Review of Sociology | 30 Mar 2005 | 1,329 |
| 29 | The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States Adriana Lleras‐Muney · The Review of Economic Studies | 24 Dec 2004 | 1,294 |
| 30 | A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment Mike Savage, Fiona Devine, Niall Cunningham et al. · Sociology | Apr 2013 | 1,289 |
| 31 | Twelve Frequently Asked Questions About Growth Curve Modeling Patrick J. Curran, Khawla Obeidat, Diane Losardo · Journal of Cognition and Development | 29 Apr 2010 | 1,274 |
| 32 | Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility Raquel Fernández, Alessandra Fogli · American Economic Journal Macroeconomics | 2009 | 1,253 |
| 33 | Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings Janet Currie, Enrico Moretti · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 2003 | 1,242 |
| 34 | Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long‐Term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post‐1940 U.S. Population Douglas Vincent Almond · Journal of Political Economy | Aug 2006 | 1,222 |
| 35 | EQUIVALENCE SCALES, WELL‐BEING, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY: SENSITIVITY ESTIMATES ACROSS TEN COUNTRIES USING THE LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY (LIS) DATABASE Brigitte Buhmann, Lee Rainwater, Guenther Schmaus et al. · Review of Income and Wealth | Jun 1988 | 1,215 |
| 36 | The Relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach Anna Zajacova, Elizabeth Lawrence · Annual Review of Public Health | 12 Jan 2018 | 1,209 |
| 37 | Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” David Autor · Science | 23 May 2014 | 1,174 |
| 38 | Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis David Card, Thomas Lemieux · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 2001 | 1,164 |
| 39 | The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects* Raj G. Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 29 Jan 2018 | 1,153 |
| 40 | Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History * Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 2009 | 1,152 |
| 41 | The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach Samuel Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis, Melissa Osborne · Journal of Economic Literature | Dec 2001 | 1,135 |
| 42 | Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman · The Journal of Human Resources | 2008 | 1,126 |
| 43 | Intergenerational Mobility in the Labor Market Gary Solon · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 1,121 |
| 44 | Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle Over Educational Goals David F. Labaree · American Educational Research Journal | 1997 | 1,083 |
| 45 | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Apurv Jain · Business Economics | 10 Mar 2017 | 1,080 |
| 46 | The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman et al. · The Review of Economic Studies | 10 Nov 2011 | 1,069 |
| 47 | The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation James J. Heckman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 Aug 2007 | 1,065 |
| 48 | Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males Stephen V. Cameron, James J. Heckman · Journal of Political Economy | Apr 1998 | 1,061 |
| 49 | Over-education and earnings: where are we, where should we go? Joop Hartog · Economics of Education Review | Apr 2000 | 1,058 |
| 50 | Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences‐ in‐Differences Evidence Across Countries Eric Alan Hanushek, Ludger W ößmann · The Economic Journal | 28 Feb 2006 | 1,050 |
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