| Quantifying quantitative literacy: Age heaping and the history of human capital B A'Hearn, J Baten, D Crayen The Journal of Economic History 69 (3), 783-808, 2009 | 416 | 2009 |
| The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia N Koepke, J Baten European review of economic history 9 (1), 61-95, 2005 | 329 | 2005 |
| Book production and the onset of modern economic growth J Baten, JL Van Zanden Journal of Economic Growth 13, 217-235, 2008 | 314 | 2008 |
| How was life?: Global well-being since 1820 JL Van Zanden (No Title), 2014 | 267 | 2014 |
| Heights of men and women in 19th-century Bavaria: economic, nutritional, and disease influences J Baten, JE Murray Explorations in Economic History 37 (4), 351-369, 2000 | 246 | 2000 |
| The biological standard of living in comparative perspective: Contributions to the conference Held in Munich, January 18-22, 1997, for the XIIth Congress of the International … J Komlos Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998 | 236 | 1998 |
| Growing tall but unequal: new findings and new background evidence on anthropometric welfare in 156 countries, 1810-1989 J Baten, M Blum Economic History of Developing Regions 27 (sup-1), 66-85, 2012 | 224 | 2012 |
| A history of the global economy J Baten Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 222 | 2016 |
| Looking backward and looking forward: anthropometric research and the development of social science history J Komlos, J Baten Social science history 28 (2), 191-210, 2004 | 222 | 2004 |
| The changing shape of global inequality 1820–2000; exploring a new dataset JL Van Zanden, J Baten, P Foldvari, B Van Leeuwen Review of income and wealth 60 (2), 279-297, 2014 | 214 | 2014 |
| Global trends in numeracy 1820–1949 and its implications for long-term growth D Crayen, J Baten Explorations in Economic History 47 (1), 82-99, 2010 | 196 | 2010 |
| Shareholder democracies? Corporate governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 M Freeman, R Pearson, J Taylor University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 180* | 2019 |
| Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: new data and new insights from anthropometric estimates A Moradi, J Baten World development 33 (8), 1233-1265, 2005 | 168 | 2005 |
| Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in the 18–20th centuries: Evidences from real wages, age-heaping, and anthropometrics J Baten, D Ma, S Morgan, Q Wang Explorations in Economic History 47 (3), 347-359, 2010 | 150 | 2010 |
| Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights J Baten, M Blum European Review of Economic History 18 (2), 144-165, 2014 | 147 | 2014 |
| Ernährung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Bayern (1730-1880) J Baten (No Title), 1999 | 143 | 1999 |
| Economic development and the distribution of nutritional resources in Bavaria, 1797–1839: an anthropometric study J Baten Journal of Income Distribution 9 (1), 89-106, 2000 | 125 | 2000 |
| Technological and geographical knowledge spillover in the German empire 1877–1918 J Streb, J Baten, S Yin The Economic History Review 59 (2), 347-373, 2006 | 121 | 2006 |
| The development and inequality of heights in North, West, and East India 1915–1944 AM Guntupalli, J Baten Explorations in Economic History 43 (4), 578-608, 2006 | 112 | 2006 |
| Heights and real wages in the 18th and 19th centuries: an international overview J Baten Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook 41 (1), 61-76, 2000 | 108 | 2000 |
