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| Head Start’s long-run impact: Evidence from the program’s introduction O Thompson Journal of Human Resources 53 (4), 1100-1139, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Genes and the intergenerational transmission of BMI and obesity TJ Classen, O Thompson Economics & Human Biology 23, 121-133, 2016 | 62 | 2016 |
| The long-term health impacts of Medicaid and CHIP O Thompson Journal of health economics 51, 26-40, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| School desegregation and Black teacher employment O Thompson Review of Economics and Statistics 104 (5), 962-980, 2022 | 47 | 2022 |
| Nurse unions and patient outcomes A Dube, E Kaplan, O Thompson ILR Review 69 (4), 803-833, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Educational mobility across three generations of American women S Kroeger, O Thompson Economics of Education Review 53, 72-86, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| The estimated cost impact of privatizing student transportation in Minnesota school districts O Thompson Public Choice 146 (3), 319-339, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |
| Economic background and educational attainment: The role of gene-environment interactions O Thompson Journal of Human Resources 49 (2), 263-294, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| The determinants of racial differences in parenting practices O Thompson Journal of Political Economy 126 (1), 438-449, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| Racial disparities in the cognition-health relationship O Thompson Journal of Health Economics 30 (2), 328-339, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Human capital and black-white earnings gaps, 1966-2017 O Thompson National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Gene–Environment Interaction in the Intergenerational Transmission of Asthma O Thompson Health Economics 26 (11), 1337-1352, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| The Long Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation G Anstreicher, J Fletcher, O Thompson National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era O Thompson National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Head Start’s impact in the very long-run O Thompson Journal of Human Resources 53 (4), 1100-1139, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Black–white differences in self-rated health, 1972–2015 O Thompson Economics letters 154, 69-73, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Selected Fertility and Racial Inequality O Thompson Journal of Human Resources, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Tribal gaming and educational outcomes in the next generation O Thompson Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 38 (3), 629-652, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Drug policy and intergenerational income mobility in the United States O Thompson Contemporary Economic Policy 34 (1), 127-145, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
