| Beyond the city: the rural contribution to development D De Ferranti, GE Perry, D Lederman, A Valdes, W Foster The World Bank, 2005 | 260 | 2005 |
| Measuring welfare effects of product contamination with consumer uncertainty W Foster, RE Just Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 17 (3), 266-283, 1989 | 202 | 1989 |
| Political preference functions and public policy reform GC Rausser, WE Foster American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72 (3), 641-652, 1990 | 116 | 1990 |
| Collective marketing arrangements for geographically differentiated agricultural products: Welfare impacts and policy implications SH Lence, S Marette, DJ Hayes, W Foster American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 (4), 947-963, 2007 | 97 | 2007 |
| Reflections on the role of agriculture in pro-poor growth A Valdés, W Foster World Development 38 (10), 1362-1374, 2010 | 80 | 2010 |
| Participation in the farmer-owned reserve program: a discrete choice model RG Chambers, WE Foster American Journal of Agricultural Economics 65 (1), 120-124, 1983 | 74 | 1983 |
| Farmer behavior under risk of failure WE Foster, GC Rausser American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73 (2), 276-288, 1991 | 54 | 1991 |
| Economic rents under supply controls with marketable quota BA Babcock, WE Foster American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74 (3), 630-637, 1992 | 51 | 1992 |
| Net food-importing developing countries: who they are, and policy options for global price volatility A Valdés, W Foster ICTSD Programme on Agricultural Trade and Sustainable Development, Issue …, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| Measuring the potential contribution of plant breeding to crop yields: Flue-cured tobacco, 1954–87 BA Babcock, WE Foster American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73 (3), 850-859, 1991 | 42 | 1991 |
| Field-level measurement of land productivity and program slippage DL Hoag, WE Foster, BA Babcock American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75 (1), 181-189, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
| Measuring the costs and trade effects of phytosanitary protocols: A US–Japanese apple example L Calvin, B Krissoff, W Foster Review of Agricultural Economics 30 (1), 120-135, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| Response to a food safety problem in produce L Calvin, W Foster, L Solorzano, JD Mooney, L Flores, V Barrios Global food trade and consumer demand for quality, 101-127, 2002 | 34 | 2002 |
| Commodity program slippage rates for corn and wheat HA Love, WE Foster Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 272-281, 1990 | 33 | 1990 |
| Reflections on the role of agriculture in pro-poor growth A Valdés, W Foster The Future of Small Farms, 3, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| Special safeguards for developing country agriculture: a proposal for WTO negotiations A Valdes, W Foster World Trade Review 2 (1), 5-31, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| Externalidades de la agricultura chilena A Valdés, W Foster Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2005 | 24 | 2005 |
| Marketing focus in the Chilean wine industry W Foster, A Beaujanot, JI Zúñiga Journal of Wine Research 13 (1), 35-42, 2002 | 23 | 2002 |
| Institutions and market distortions: international evidence for tobacco JC Beghin, WE Foster, M Kherallah Journal of Agricultural Economics 47 (1‐4), 355-365, 1996 | 23 | 1996 |
| The constraints to escaping rural poverty: An analysis of the complementarities of assets in developing countries W Foster, A Valdés, B Davis, G Anríquez Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 33 (4), 528-565, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |