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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

David Laibson

David Laibson publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and General Decision Sciences, on topics such as Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Housing Market and Economics and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

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World rank
#7,868
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,694
of 1,627,098
Works
359
Citations
50k
Citations per work
140.4
h-index
87
i10-index 201Top 0.1% in Economics and Econometrics
David Laibson

What does David Laibson research?

David Laibson's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (35%), Business, Management and Accounting (16%), Decision Sciences (8%).

Social Sciences: 224 works · 62.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 126 works · 35.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 101 works · 28.1% of their workFinance: 25 works · 7.1% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 56 works · 15.6% of their workAccounting: 56 works · 15.6% of their workDecision Sciences: 28 works · 7.8% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 28 works · 7.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 3.8% of their workDemography: 14 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 115 works · 31.9% of their workLife Sciences: 20 works · 5.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 5.7% of their workGenetics: 20 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Laibson359works
Life Sciences6%Social Sciences62%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12635.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting5615.6%
    3. Decision Sciences287.8%
    4. Social Sciences143.8%
  2. Everything else11531.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology205.7%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics28% of their works
  2. 2Accounting16% of their works
  3. 3General Decision Sciences8% of their works
  4. 4Finance7% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Demography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Laibson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, Asset Pricing, Housing Supply, Mortgage Credit Expansion, Decision Making, Risk Aversion and Liquidity.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Financial Literacy1251 topic
  2. Retirement Planning1251 topic
  3. Asset Pricing962 topics
  4. Housing Supply901 topic
  5. Mortgage Credit Expansion901 topic
  6. Decision Making731 topic
  7. Risk Aversion731 topic
  8. Liquidity621 topic
  9. Monetary Equilibrium621 topic
  10. Conjoint Analysis341 topic
  11. Discrete Choice Models341 topic
  12. Market Efficiency341 topic
  13. Stock Returns341 topic
  14. Genetic Variation291 topic
  15. Genome-Wide Association291 topic
  16. Aging Workforce221 topic
  17. Retirement221 topic

Where does David Laibson work?

David Laibson's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Laibson have?

OpenAlex counts 359 works and 50,395 citations for David Laibson, an h-index of 87, ranking #7,868 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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