| Happiness: Lessons from a New Science PRG Layard, R Layard Penguin UK, 2011 | 8204 | 2011 |
| Unemployment: macroeconomic performance and the labour market R Layard, PRG Layard, SJ Nickell, R Jackman Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 | 7687 | 2005 |
| World happiness report 2021 JF Helliwell, R Layard, JD Sachs, JED Neve | 5087* | 2021 |
| Labor market institutions and economic performance S Nickell, R Layard Handbook of labor economics 3, 3029-3084, 1999 | 2311 | 1999 |
| Labor supply of men: a survey J Pencavel Handbook of labor economics 1, 3-102, 1986 | 1849 | 1986 |
| Cost-benefit analysis R Layard, S Glaister Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 1403 | 1994 |
| World happiness report 2013 JF Helliwell, R Layard, JD Sachs Sustainable Development Solutions Network, 2013 | 1217 | 2013 |
| Unemployment in Britain R Layard, S Nickell Economica 53 (210), S121-S169, 1986 | 1067 | 1986 |
| Improving access to psychological therapy: Initial evaluation of two UK demonstration sites DM Clark, R Layard, R Smithies, DA Richards, R Suckling, B Wright Behaviour research and therapy 47 (11), 910-920, 2009 | 860 | 2009 |
| Reform in Eastern Europe OJ Blanchard mit Press, 1993 | 857 | 1993 |
| The marginal utility of income R Layard, G Mayraz, S Nickell Journal of Public Economics 92 (8-9), 1846-1857, 2008 | 822 | 2008 |
| Happiness and public policy: A challenge to the profession R Layard The economic journal 116 (510), C24-C33, 2006 | 798 | 2006 |
| The screening hypothesis and the returns to education R Layard, G Psacharopoulos Journal of political economy 82 (5), 985-998, 1974 | 752 | 1974 |
| Happiness: has social science a clue? Lecture 2: Income and happiness: Rethinking economic policy R Layard | 687* | 2003 |
| The rise in unemployment: A multi-country study CR Bean, PRG Layard, SJ Nickell Economic Models of Trade Unions, 279-303, 1986 | 686 | 1986 |
| Human satisfactions and public policy R Layard The Economic Journal 90 (360), 737-750, 1980 | 664 | 1980 |
| Measuring subjective well-being for public policy P Dolan, R Layard, R Metcalfe Office for national statistics, 2011 | 657* | 2011 |
| A good childhood: Searching for values in a competitive age J Dunn, R Layard Penguin UK, 2009 | 647 | 2009 |
| Measuring subjective well-being R Layard Science 327 (5965), 534-535, 2010 | 574 | 2010 |
| The unemployment crisis R Layard, S Nickell, R Jackman Oxford University Press, 1994 | 482 | 1994 |
