| The effects of poverty on child health and development JL Aber, NG Bennett, DC Conley, J Li Annual review of public health 18 (1), 463-483, 1997 | 885 | 1997 |
| Is biology destiny? Birth weight and life chances D Conley, NG Bennett American Sociological Review 65 (3), 458-467, 2000 | 569 | 2000 |
| Commitment and the modern union: Assessing the link between premarital cohabitation and subsequent marital stability NG Bennett, AK Blanc, DE Bloom American Sociological Review, 127-138, 1988 | 470 | 1988 |
| The divergence of black and white marriage patterns NG Bennett, DE Bloom, PH Craig American journal of Sociology 95 (3), 692-722, 1989 | 427 | 1989 |
| Estimating the completeness of death registration in a closed population NG Bennett, S Horiuchi Population index, 207-221, 1981 | 336 | 1981 |
| The influence of nonmarital childbearing on the formation of first marriages NG Bennett, DE Bloom, CK Miller Demography 32 (1), 47-62, 1995 | 250 | 1995 |
| The starting gate: Birth weight and life chances D Conley, KW Strully, NG Bennett Univ of California Press, 2003 | 202 | 2003 |
| Mortality estimation from registered deaths in less developed countries NG Bennett, S Horiuchi Demography 21 (2), 217-233, 1984 | 182 | 1984 |
| Birth weight and income: interactions across generations D Conley, NG Bennett Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 450-465, 2001 | 169 | 2001 |
| A census-based method for estimating adult mortality SH Preston, NG Bennett Population studies 37 (1), 91-104, 1983 | 158 | 1983 |
| Modeling American marriage patterns DE Bloom, NG Bennett Journal of the American Statistical Association 85 (412), 1009-1017, 1990 | 85 | 1990 |
| Twin differences in birth weight: the effects of genotype and prenatal environment on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality D Conley, KW Strully, NG Bennett Economics & Human Biology 4 (2), 151-183, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Sex selection of children NG Bennett Elsevier, 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| Demographic implications of the Russian mortality crisis NG Bennett, DE Bloom, SF Ivanov World Development 26 (11), 1921-1937, 1998 | 57 | 1998 |
| A reflection on the changing dynamics of union formation and dissolution NG Bennett Demographic Research 36, 371-390, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| Race and the inheritance of low birth weight D Conley, NG Bennett Social Biology 47 (1-2), 77-93, 2000 | 48 | 2000 |
| A pound of flesh or just proxy? Using twin differences to estimate the effect of birth weight on life chances D Conley, K Strully, NG Bennett National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003 | 42 | 2003 |
| American marriage patterns in transition NG Bennett, DE Bloom, PH Craig The changing American family, 89-108, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Factors underlying COVID-19 vaccine and booster hesitancy and refusal, and incentivizing vaccine adoption NG Bennett, DE Bloom, M Ferranna PLoS One 17 (9), e0274529, 2022 | 38 | 2022 |
| Extraordinary longevity in the Soviet Union: Fact or artifact? NG Bennett, LK Garson The Gerontologist 26 (4), 358-361, 1986 | 34 | 1986 |
