| Life under pressure: Mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 T Bengtsson Mit Press, 2004 | 369 | 2004 |
| Childhood misery and disease in later life: The effects on mortality in old age of hazards experienced in early life, southern Sweden, 1760-1894 T Bengtsson, M Lindström Population studies 54 (3), 263-277, 2000 | 273 | 2000 |
| Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894 T Bengtsson, M Lindström International journal of epidemiology 32 (2), 286-294, 2003 | 252 | 2003 |
| Deliberate control in a natural fertility population: Southern Sweden, 1766–1864 T Bengtsson, M Dribe Demography 43 (4), 727-746, 2006 | 238 | 2006 |
| Living standards in the past: New perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe RC Allen, T Bengtsson, M Dribe Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 | 187 | 2005 |
| Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction T Bengtsson, F Van Poppel Explorations in economic History 48 (3), 343-356, 2011 | 171 | 2011 |
| Do conditions in early life affect old-age mortality directly and indirectly? Evidence from 19th-century rural Sweden T Bengtsson, G Broström Social science & medicine 68 (9), 1583-1590, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| Social class and excess mortality in Sweden during the 1918 influenza pandemic T Bengtsson, M Dribe, B Eriksson American journal of epidemiology 187 (12), 2568-2576, 2018 | 107 | 2018 |
| Inequality in deaths: Effects of the agrarian revolution in southern Sweden 1765-1865 T Bengtsson Population and Economy: From hunger to modern economic growth, 2000 | 107* | 2000 |
| The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials: A micro-level study of adult mortality in southern Sweden 1815–1968 T Bengtsson, M Dribe Explorations in Economic History 48 (3), 389-400, 2011 | 105 | 2011 |
| The long-lasting influenza: The impact of fetal stress during the 1918 influenza pandemic on socioeconomic attainment and health in Sweden, 1968–2012 J Helgertz, T Bengtsson Demography 56 (4), 1389-1425, 2019 | 101 | 2019 |
| From boom to bust. The economic integration of immigrants in post war Sweden T Bengtsson, C Lundh, K Scott European migration: What do we know, 15-58, 2005 | 101 | 2005 |
| Population aging and the future of the welfare state: The example of Sweden T Bengtsson, K Scott PoPulation and develoPment review 37, 158-170, 2011 | 97 | 2011 |
| 14 New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress T Bengtsson, M Dribe Living standards in the past, 341, 2005 | 97 | 2005 |
| Living standards and economic stress T Bengtsson | 91 | 2004 |
| Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life: A full life course approach using contemporary and historical sources. Selected papers from the … T Bengtsson, GP Mineau | 83 | 2009 |
| Population ageing-a threat to the welfare state?: the case of Sweden T Bengtsson Springer Science & Business Media, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| The ageing population T Bengtsson, K Scott Population ageing-A threat to the welfare state? The case of sweden, 7-22, 2010 | 75 | 2010 |
| The historical fertility transition at the micro level: Southern Sweden 1815-1939 T Bengtsson, M Dribe Demographic Research 30, 493-534, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| When did the health gradient emerge? Social class and adult mortality in southern Sweden, 1813–2015 T Bengtsson, M Dribe, J Helgertz Demography 57 (3), 953-977, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |