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Adam Wagstaff

Adam Wagstaff

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
88
Citations
44031
World Ranking
183
National Ranking
131

Adam Wagstaff publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Wagstaff sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 357 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Adam Wagstaff D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Wagstaff sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Adam Wagstaff was affiliated with the World Bank in the United States. Their research spanned several interconnected fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Medicine; and Health Professions. Within these broad areas, they contributed notably to subfields such as Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Safety Research, and Economics and Econometrics.

Wagstaff's work covered a range of topics primarily focusing on healthcare systems and reforms, global maternal and child health, and global healthcare issues. Their research interests also included poverty, education, and child welfare, healthcare policy and management, child nutrition and water access, as well as agricultural risk and resilience.

They published multiple papers in a variety of venues. Some of the recent papers included:

  • Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health: A Global Stocktake, 2020, The World Bank Research Observer
  • The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance For Low- And Low-Middle-Income Countries, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Financial Incentives to Increase Utilization of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
  • Medical expenditures: not the only source of financial hardship - Authors' reply, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Who is more likely to return for TB test results? A survey at three high-burden primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa, 2021, International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Frequent coauthors in the research network with whom Wagstaff collaborated extensively included Sven Neelsen, Damien de Walque, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, and Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen.

Their research was also disseminated through recognized venues such as The World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet Global Health.

Wagstaff contributed to book publications mainly through World Bank eBooks. These works included:

  • Improving Effective Coverage in Health: Do Financial Incentives Work?, 2022
  • The 2022 Update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database: An Overview, 2022
  • Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics, 2020

Best Publications

  • Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation

    Owen O'Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

  • Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation

    Owen O'Donnell;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

  • On the measurement of inequalities in health

    Adam Wagstaff;Pierella Paci;Eddy van Doorslaer

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health: Measurement, computation, and statistical inference

    Nanak Kakwani;Adam Wagstaff;Eddy van Doorslaer

  • Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998

    Adam Wagstaff;Adam Wagstaff;Eddy van Doorslaer

  • On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam

    Adam Wagstaff;Adam Wagstaff;Eddy van Doorslaer;Naoko Watanabe

  • Poverty and health sector inequalities

    Adam Wagstaff

  • Equity and equality in health and health care

    A.J Culyer;Adam Wagstaff

  • Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough.

    Cesar G. Victora;Adam Wagstaff;Adam Wagstaff;Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg;Davidson Gwatkin

  • Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

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  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION

    Davidson R. Gwatkin;Shea Rutstein;Kiersten Johnson;Eldaw Suliman

  • Extending health insurance to the rural population : an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme

    Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow;Gao Jun;Xu Ling

  • Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons.

    E van Doorslaer;A Wagstaff;H Bleichrodt;S Calonge

  • Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America

    Rifat Atun;Luiz Odorico Monteiro De Andrade;Luiz Odorico Monteiro De Andrade;Gisele Almeida;Daniel Cotlear

  • Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US

    Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Hattem Van Der Burg;Terkel Christiansen

  • The bounds of the concentration index when the variable of interest is binary, with an application to immunization inequality.

    Adam Wagstaff

  • Income Inequality and Health: What Does the Literature Tell Us?

    Wagstaff A;van Doorslaer E

  • Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries: a retrospective observational study

    Adam Wagstaff;Gabriela Flores;Justine Hsu;Marc-François Smitz

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries

    Adam Wagstaff;Adam Wagstaff

  • Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons

    Adam Wagstaff;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Hattem Van Der Burg;Samuel Calonge

  • Socio-economic differences in health nutrition and population within developing countries. An overview.

    Davidson R. Gwatkin;Shea Rutstein;Kiersten Johnson;Eldaw Suliman

  • Can insurance increase financial risk ? The curious case of health insurance in China

    Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

Frequent Co-Authors

Agbessi Amouzou
Agbessi Amouzou Johns Hopkins University
Eddy van Doorslaer
Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Anthony J. Culyer
Anthony J. Culyer University of York
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Owen O'Donnell
Owen O'Donnell Erasmus University Rotterdam
Winnie Yip
Winnie Yip Harvard University
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Ulf-G. Gerdtham Lund University
Dean Jolliffe
Dean Jolliffe World Bank
William C. Hsiao
William C. Hsiao Harvard University

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