| The causal impact of education on economic growth: evidence from US P Aghion, L Boustan, C Hoxby, J Vandenbussche Brookings papers on economic activity 1 (1), 1-73, 2009 | 718* | 2009 |
| Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration R Abramitzky, LP Boustan, K Eriksson American Economic Review 102 (5), 1832-1856, 2012 | 684 | 2012 |
| Was postwar suburbanization “white flight”? Evidence from the black migration LP Boustan The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), 417-443, 2010 | 628 | 2010 |
| A nation of immigrants: Assimilation and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration R Abramitzky, LP Boustan, K Eriksson Journal of Political Economy 122 (3), 467-506, 2014 | 614 | 2014 |
| Immigration in American economic history R Abramitzky, L Boustan Journal of economic literature 55 (4), 1311-1345, 2017 | 517 | 2017 |
| The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data LP Boustan, ME Kahn, PW Rhode, ML Yanguas Journal of Urban Economics 118, 103257, 2020 | 430 | 2020 |
| Moving to higher ground: Migration response to natural disasters in the early twentieth century LP Boustan, ME Kahn, PW Rhode American Economic Review 102 (3), 238-244, 2012 | 349 | 2012 |
| Do immigrants assimilate more slowly today than in the past? R Abramitzky, L Boustan, K Eriksson American Economic Review: Insights 2 (1), 125-141, 2020 | 313* | 2020 |
| Automated linking of historical data R Abramitzky, L Boustan, K Eriksson, J Feigenbaum, S Pérez Journal of Economic Literature 59 (3), 865-918, 2021 | 273 | 2021 |
| The effect of rising income inequality on taxation and public expenditures: Evidence from US municipalities and school districts, 1970–2000 L Boustan, F Ferreira, H Winkler, EM Zolt Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (4), 1291-1302, 2013 | 256* | 2013 |
| The effect of internal migration on local labor markets: American cities during the Great Depression LP Boustan, PV Fishback, S Kantor Journal of Labor Economics 28 (4), 719-746, 2010 | 245 | 2010 |
| Racial residential segregation in American cities LP Boustan National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013 | 215 | 2013 |
| Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration R Abramitzky, LP Boustan, K Eriksson Journal of Development Economics 102, 2-14, 2013 | 204 | 2013 |
| Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in the United States over two centuries R Abramitzky, L Boustan, E Jácome, S Pérez American Economic Review 111 (2), 580-608, 2021 | 191* | 2021 |
| Competition in the promised land: Black migrants in northern cities and labor markets LP Boustan Princeton University Press, 2016 | 190 | 2016 |
| Competition in the promised land: Black migration and racial wage convergence in the North, 1940–1970 LP Boustan The Journal of Economic History 69 (3), 755-782, 2009 | 116 | 2009 |
| A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980 LP Boustan, RA Margo Journal of Urban Economics 78, 71-80, 2013 | 102* | 2013 |
| The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: white southerners after the Civil War P Ager, L Boustan, K Eriksson American Economic Review 111 (11), 3767-3794, 2021 | 100 | 2021 |
| To the new world and back again: Return migrants in the age of mass migration R Abramitzky, L Boustan, K Eriksson ILR Review 72 (2), 300-322, 2019 | 99 | 2019 |
| The effect of immigration restrictions on local labor markets: Lessons from the 1920s border closure R Abramitzky, P Ager, L Boustan, E Cohen, CW Hansen American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15 (1), 164-191, 2023 | 89* | 2023 |
