| Nation-building through compulsory schooling during the age of mass migration O Bandiera, M Mohnen, I Rasul, M Viarengo The Economic Journal 129 (617), 62-109, 2019 | 239 | 2019 |
| The making of modern America: migratory flows in the age of mass migration O Bandiera, I Rasul, M Viarengo Journal of Development Economics 102, 23-47, 2013 | 184 | 2013 |
| Does money matter for schools? H Holmlund, S McNally, M Viarengo Economics of education review 29 (6), 1154-1164, 2010 | 182 | 2010 |
| The expansion and convergence of compulsory schooling in Western Europe, 1950–2000 F Murtin, M Viarengo Economica 78 (311), 501-522, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities S Gibbons, S McNally, M Viarengo Journal of the European Economic Association 16 (5), 1618-1668, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| Changing how literacy is taught: Evidence on synthetic phonics S Machin, S McNally, M Viarengo American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 10 (2), 217-241, 2018 | 89 | 2018 |
| Closing the gender gap in education: What is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers? I Ganguli, R Hausmann, M Viarengo International Labour Review 153 (2), 173-207, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| Colonial institutions, trade shocks, and the diffusion of elementary education in Brazil, 1889–1930 A Musacchio, AM Fritscher, M Viarengo The Journal of Economic History 74 (3), 730-766, 2014 | 83 | 2014 |
| School and family effects on educational outcomes across countries RB Freeman, M Viarengo Economic Policy 29 (79), 395-446, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| Coming out in America: AIDS, politics, and cultural change R Fernández, S Parsa, M Viarengo National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
| Variation in educational outcomes and policies across countries and of schools within countries RB Freeman, S Machin, M Viarengo National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010 | 47 | 2010 |
| The state, socialisation, and private schooling: When will governments support alternative producers? L Pritchett, M Viarengo The Journal of Development Studies 51 (7), 784-807, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| The gender aspect of migrants’ assimilation in Europe T Lee, G Peri, M Viarengo Labour Economics 78, 102180, 2022 | 43 | 2022 |
| Producing superstars for the economic mundial: The Mexican predicament with quality of education L Pritchett, M Viarengo | 43 | 2009 |
| Explaining the cross-national time series variation in life expectancy: income, women's education, shifts, and what else? L Pritchett, M Viarengo UNDP, 2010 | 40 | 2010 |
| Inequality of educational outcomes: International evidence from PISA RB Freeman, S Machin, M Viarengo Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 11 (3), 5-20, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
| Closing the gender gap in education: does it foretell the closing of the employment, marriage, and motherhood gaps? I Ganguli, R Hausmann, M Viarengo HKS Working Paper No. RWP11-021, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| Learning outcomes in developing countries: Four hard lessons from PISA-D L Pritchett, M Viarengo University of Oxford, 2022 | 32 | 2022 |
| Marriage, education and assortative mating in Latin America I Ganguli, R Hausmann, M Viarengo Applied Economics Letters 21 (12), 806-811, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| Why demographic suicide? The puzzles of European fertility L Pritchett, M Viarengo PoPulation and develoPment review 38, 55-71, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
