| Academics as rent seekers: distorted incentives in higher education, with reference to the South African case SM Muller International Journal of Educational Development 52, 58-67, 2017 | 74 | 2017 |
| Causal Interaction and External Validity: Obstacles to the Policy Relevance of Randomized Evaluations SM Muller World Bank Economic Review 29 (suppl 1), S217-S225, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony P Piraino, S Muller, J Cilliers, J Fourie Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 35, 105-119, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Free higher education in South Africa: cutting through the lies and statistics SM Muller The Conversation, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| The dangers of performative scientism as the alternative to anti-scientific policymaking: A critical, preliminary assessment of South Africa’s Covid-19 response and its … SM Muller World Development 140, 105290, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects S Muller | 21 | 2014 |
| The implications of a fundamental contradiction in advocating randomized trials for policy SM Muller World Development 127, 104831, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Another problem in the estimation of intergenerational income mobility SM Muller Economics Letters 108 (3), 291-295, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences SM Muller Springer Nature, 2022 | 11* | 2022 |
| South Africa’s #feesmustfall protests: some inconvenient truths SM Muller The Conversation, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Randomised trials in economics SM Muller A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| What Does an (South) African Economics Look Like? SM Muller Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the South Conference, 87, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Masks, mechanisms and Covid-19: the limitations of randomized trials in pandemic policymaking SM Muller History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (2), 1-5, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| The university is not a factory SM Muller Mail and Guardian, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Reply to “Research incentives and research output”: a caution on quantity incentives and the use of economic models for higher education policy SM Muller Higher Education, 1-10, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| The economics and philosophy of the brain drain: A critical perspective from the periphery SM Muller South African Journal of Philosophy 36 (1), 115-132, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Begging the question: permanent income and social mobility SM Muller University of Cape Town, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
| From Accountability to Managerialism and Incentives SM Muller The Incentivised University, 95-112, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| How randomised trials became big in development economics SM Muller, G Chelwa, N Hoffman The Conversation, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| The external validity of treatment effects: An investigation of educational production SM Muller University of Cape Town, 2014 | 5 | 2014 |
