| 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 | 39 | 2015 |
| 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 | 37 | 2017 |
| 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 | 32 | 2014 |
| Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects S Muller | 13 | 2014 |
| Another problem in the estimation of intergenerational income mobility SM Muller Economics Letters 108 (3), 291-295, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| The implications of a fundamental contradiction in advocating randomized trials for policy SM Muller World Development 127, 104831, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 5 | 2021 |
| What Does an (South) African Economics Look Like? SM Muller Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the South Conference, 87, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| 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 | 3 | 2019 |
| The external validity of treatment effects: An investigation of educational production SM Muller University of Cape Town, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| The black middle class: the challenges of joining two economies S Muller Gqubule, D. Making mistakes and righting wrongs. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball …, 2006 | 3 | 2006 |
| COVID-19: the cure could be worse than the disease for South Africa SM Muller https://theconversation.com/covid-19-the-cure-could-be-worse-than-the …, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Africa’s Education FundingOutcomes Paradox: A Partial Explanation’ SM Muller unpublished paper, Saldru Seminar, University of Cape Town, 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
| Randomised trials in economics SM Muller A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics, 2021 | | 2021 |
| 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 | | 2021 |
| Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive SM Muller Development and Change, 2021 | | 2021 |
| Randomised Trials as a Dead-end for African Development SM Muller https://codesria.org/spip.php?article3085, 2020 | | 2020 |
| South Africa’s one-sided lockdown: coercing the poor, coddling the rich? SM Muller https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/south-africas-one-sided-lockdown …, 2020 | | 2020 |
| Numéro spécial Essais controlés randomisés et la recherche de développement en Afrique SM Muller CODESRIA Bulletin, 2, 2020 | | 2020 |
