| Children of the great depression GH Elder Routledge, 2018 | 6907 | 2018 |
| The life course as developmental theory GH Elder Jr Child development 69 (1), 1-12, 1998 | 4971 | 1998 |
| The emergence and development of life course theory GH Elder Handbook of the life course/Springer, 2003 | 4823 | 2003 |
| Time, human agency, and social change: Perspectives on the life course GH Elder Jr Social psychology quarterly, 4-15, 1994 | 4269 | 1994 |
| Economic stress, coercive family process, and developmental problems of adolescents RD Conger, X Ge, GH Elder Jr, FO Lorenz, RL Simons Child development 65 (2), 541-561, 1994 | 3118 | 1994 |
| A family process model of economic hardship and adjustment of early adolescent boys RD Conger, KJ Conger, GH Elder Jr, FO Lorenz, RL Simons, LB Whitbeck Child development 63 (3), 526-541, 1992 | 2630 | 1992 |
| The life course and human development GH Elder Jr, MJ Shanahan Handbook of child psychology 1, 2007 | 2433 | 2007 |
| Families in troubled times: Adapting to change in rural America R Conger Routledge, 2020 | 2282 | 2020 |
| Moving against the world: Life-course patterns of explosive children. A Caspi, GH Elder, DJ Bem Developmental psychology 23 (2), 308, 1987 | 1977* | 1987 |
| Life course dynamics: Trajectories and transitions, 1968-1980 GH Elder (No Title), 1985 | 1622 | 1985 |
| Managing to make it: Urban families and adolescent success FF Furstenberg, TD Cook, J Eccles, GH Elder Jr University of Chicago Press, 2000 | 1584 | 2000 |
| Methods of life course research: Qualitative and quantitative approaches JZ Giele, GH Elder Sage, 1998 | 1560 | 1998 |
| Age differentiation and the life course GH Elder Annual review of sociology 1, 165-190, 1975 | 1369 | 1975 |
| Intergenerational bonding in school: The behavioral and contextual correlates of student-teacher relationships R Crosnoe, MK Johnson, GH Elder Jr Sociology of education 77 (1), 60-81, 2004 | 1347 | 2004 |
| Trajectories of stressful life events and depressive symptoms during adolescence. X Ge, FO Lorenz, RD Conger, GH Elder, RL Simons Developmental psychology 30 (4), 467, 1994 | 1324 | 1994 |
| Linking economic hardship to marital quality and instability RD Conger, GH Elder Jr, FO Lorenz, KJ Conger, RL Simons, LB Whitbeck, ... Journal of Marriage and the Family, 643-656, 1990 | 1308 | 1990 |
| Students' attachment and academic engagement: The role of race and ethnicity MK Johnson, R Crosnoe, GH Elder Jr Sociology of education, 318-340, 2001 | 1167 | 2001 |
| Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms. X Ge, RD Conger, GH Elder Jr Developmental psychology 37 (3), 404, 2001 | 1138 | 2001 |
| The life course paradigm: Social change and individual development. GH Elder Jr American Psychological Association, 1995 | 1135 | 1995 |
| Linking family hardship to children's lives GH Elder Jr, T Van Nguyen, A Caspi Child development, 361-375, 1985 | 1096 | 1985 |