| Estimates of the economic return to schooling for 28 countries P Trostel, I Walker, P Woolley Labour economics 9 (1), 1-16, 2002 | 625 | 2002 |
| The effect of taxation on human capital PA Trostel Journal of political Economy 101 (2), 327-350, 1993 | 490 | 1993 |
| Why financial aid matters (or does not) for college success: Toward a new interdisciplinary perspective S Goldrick-Rab, DN Harris, PA Trostel Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, 1-45, 2009 | 203 | 2009 |
| It’s not just the money the benefits of college education to individuals and to society PA Trostel Lumina Foundation, 2015 | 183 | 2015 |
| The fiscal impacts of college attainment PA Trostel Research in Higher Education 51 (3), 220-247, 2010 | 169 | 2010 |
| A theory of time preference PA Trostel, GA Taylor Economic inquiry 39 (3), 379-395, 2001 | 131 | 2001 |
| Nonlinearity in the return to education PA Trostel Journal of Applied Economics 8 (1), 191-202, 2005 | 95 | 2005 |
| Should education be subsidized? PA Trostel Public Finance Quarterly 24 (1), 3-24, 1996 | 79 | 1996 |
| Returns to scale in producing human capital from schooling PA Trostel Oxford Economic Papers 56 (3), 461-484, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| The nonequivalence between deficits and distortionary taxation PA Trostel Journal of Monetary Economics 31 (2), 207-227, 1993 | 42 | 1993 |
| A simple unifying measure of state support for postsecondary education PA Trostel, JM Ronca Research in Higher Education 50, 215-247, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| Education and work P Trostel, I Walker Education Economics 14 (4), 377-399, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Should education be publicly provided? PA Trostel Bulletin of Economic Research 54 (4), 373-391, 2002 | 21 | 2002 |
| The effects of public support on college attainment PA Trostel | 20 | 2009 |
| The tip of the iceberg P Trostel Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 49 (3), 8-18, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| High returns: Public investment in higher education PA Trostel Communities and Banking, 31-34, 2008 | 16 | 2008 |
| It’s not just the money P Trostel The benefits of college education to individuals and to society (Tech. Rep.), 2015 | 15 | 2015 |
| Sheepskin effects in work behaviour P Trostel, I Walker* Applied Economics 36 (17), 1959-1966, 2004 | 15 | 2004 |
| The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets PA Trostel Journal of Education Finance, 186-213, 2010 | 14 | 2010 |
| The long-term economic effects of declining state support for higher education: Are states shooting themselves in the foot PA Trostel Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, 2003 | 11 | 2003 |
