| Association between automotive assembly plant closures and opioid overdose mortality in the United States: a difference-in-differences analysis AS Venkataramani, EF Bair, RL O’Brien, AC Tsai JAMA internal medicine 180 (2), 254-262, 2020 | 193 | 2020 |
| Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study AS Venkataramani, SJ Shah, R O'Brien, I Kawachi, AC Tsai The Lancet Public Health 2 (4), e175-e181, 2017 | 193 | 2017 |
| Structural racism, economic opportunity and racial health disparities: evidence from US counties R O'Brien, T Neman, N Seltzer, L Evans, A Venkataramani SSM-Population health 11, 100564, 2020 | 158 | 2020 |
| Depleting capital? Race, wealth and informal financial assistance RL O'Brien Social Forces 91 (2), 375-396, 2012 | 147 | 2012 |
| Taxing the poor: Doing damage to the truly disadvantaged KS Newman, RL O'Brien Univ of California Press, 2011 | 129 | 2011 |
| Saving for a Purpose: Financial Consequences of Earmarking to Encourage Savings AB Sussman, RL O’Brien Journal of Marketing Research, 1-66, 2015 | 126* | 2015 |
| Redistribution and the new fiscal sociology: Race and the progressivity of state and local taxes RL O’Brien American Journal of Sociology 122 (4), 1015-1049, 2017 | 79 | 2017 |
| Death by robots? Automation and working-age mortality in the United States R O'Brien, EF Bair, AS Venkataramani Demography 59 (2), 607-628, 2022 | 65 | 2022 |
| Declining life expectancy in the United States: the need for social policy as health policy AS Venkataramani, R O’Brien, AC Tsai JaMa 325 (7), 621-622, 2021 | 65 | 2021 |
| Paternal incarceration and teachers’ expectations of students C Wildeman, K Scardamalia, EG Walsh, RL O’Brien, B Brew Socius 3, 2378023117726610, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Economic opportunity, health behaviours, and health outcomes in the USA: a population-based cross-sectional study AS Venkataramani, R Brigell, R O'Brien, P Chatterjee, I Kawachi, AC Tsai The Lancet Public Health 1 (1), e18-e25, 2016 | 60 | 2016 |
| Economic influences on population health in the United States: toward policymaking driven by data and evidence AS Venkataramani, R O’Brien, GL Whitehorn, AC Tsai PLoS medicine 17 (9), e1003319, 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
| Ineligible to save? Asset limits and the saving behavior of welfare recipients R O'Brien Journal of Community Practice 16 (2), 183-199, 2008 | 51* | 2008 |
| Economy and disability: Labor market conditions and the disability of working-age individuals RL O'Brien Social Problems 60 (3), 321-333, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Does knowing your fico score change financial behavior? evidence from a field experiment with student loan borrowers T Homonoff, R O'Brien, AB Sussman Review of Economics and Statistics 103 (2), 236-250, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
| Disparate impact? Race, sex, and credit reports in hiring RL O’Brien, B Kiviat Socius 4, 2378023118770069, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Leveraging psychological insights to encourage the responsible use of consumer debt HE Hershfield, AB Sussman, RL O’Brien, CJ Bryan Perspectives on Psychological Science 10 (6), 749-752, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Early-life Medicaid coverage and intergenerational economic mobility RL O’Brien, CL Robertson Journal of health and social behavior 59 (2), 300-315, 2018 | 34* | 2018 |
| College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study AS Venkataramani, E Cook, RL O’Brien, I Kawachi, AB Jena, AC Tsai PLoS medicine 16 (6), e1002821, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Earmarking risk: Relational investing and portfolio choice A Hayes, R O’Brien Social Forces 99 (3), 1086-1112, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |