| The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on ethnic stratification in Africa W Whatley, R Gillezeau American Economic Review 101 (3), 571-576, 2011 | 139 | 2011 |
| Labor for the picking: The New Deal in the South WC Whatley The Journal of Economic History 43 (4), 905-929, 1983 | 139 | 1983 |
| African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal WC Whatley Social Science History 17 (4), 525-558, 1993 | 116 | 1993 |
| Southern agrarian labor contracts as impediments to cotton mechanization WC Whatley The Journal of Economic History 47 (1), 45-70, 1987 | 104 | 1987 |
| Wage changes and intrafirm job mobility over the business cycle: two case studies G Solon, W Whatley, AH Stevens ILR Review 50 (3), 402-415, 1997 | 92 | 1997 |
| A history of mechanization in the cotton South: The institutional hypothesis WC Whatley The Quarterly Journal of Economics 100 (4), 1191-1215, 1985 | 82 | 1985 |
| Making the effort: The contours of racial discrimination in Detroit’s labor markets, 1920–1940 TN Maloney, WC Whatley The Journal of Economic History 55 (3), 465-493, 1995 | 81 | 1995 |
| Getting a foot in the door:“learning,” state dependence, and the racial integration of firms WC Whatley The Journal of Economic History 50 (1), 43-66, 1990 | 77 | 1990 |
| Arbitraging a discriminatory labor market: black workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918–1947 CL Foote, WC Whatley, G Wright Journal of Labor Economics 21 (3), 493-532, 2003 | 75 | 2003 |
| History matters: essays on economic growth, technology, and demographic change T Guinnane Stanford University Press, 2003 | 58 | 2003 |
| Race, human capital, and labour markets in American history W Whatley, G Wright Labour market evolution, 270-291, 2002 | 54 | 2002 |
| The transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of political authority in West Africa W Whatley Africa’s development in historical perspective, 460-88, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| Family matters: The life-cycle transition and the antebellum American fertility decline SB Carter, RL Ransom, R Sutch, TW Guinnane, WA Sundstrom, ... History matters: Essays on economic growth, technology, and demographic …, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| The gun-slave hypothesis and the 18th century British slave trade WC Whatley Explorations in economic history 67, 80-104, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Pacification and gender in colonial Africa: evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas M Henderson, W Whatley | 33 | 2014 |
| The fundamental impact of the slave trade on African economies WC Whatley, R Gillezeau Economic evolution and revolution in historical time, 86-110, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| The impact of the slave trade on African economies W Whatley, R Gillezeau World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| The gun-slave cycle in the 18th century British slave trade in Africa W Whatley | 13 | 2012 |
| Quit behavior as a measure of worker opportunity: black workers in the interwar industrial north WC Whatley, S Sedo The American Economic Review 88 (2), 363-367, 1998 | 13 | 1998 |
| Institutional change and mechanization in the cotton South: the tractorization of cotton farming WC Whatley Stanford University, 1983 | 13* | 1983 |
