2026 Branko Milanovic: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	56	980	873	613	533	222	21916

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute

Overview

Branko Milanovic is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research concentrates primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance as well as Social Sciences. Subfields encompass Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Gender Studies, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics of research covered include Income, Poverty, and Inequality; Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth; Economic Theory and Policy; Historical Economic and Social Studies; Economic Theory and Institutions; Corruption and Economic Development; and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

The scientist's recent papers include the following:

The three eras of global inequality, 1820-2020 with the focus on the past thirty years, 2024, World Development
Capitalist systems and income inequality, 2021, Journal of Comparative Economics
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data, 2022, The Journal of Economic Inequality

Frequent co-authors with whom this researcher has collaborated are Yaoqi Lin, Marco Ranaldi, Boško Mijatović, Li Yang, and Yonatan Berman.

Publication venues regularly featuring their work include Review of Income and Wealth, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development, and The Economic History Review.

In addition to journal articles, the researcher has published books with notable academic publishers. These include:

Visions of Inequality, published by Harvard University Press in 2023
Le capitalisme, sans rival, published by La Découverte in 2020

The researcher has been recognized with the Leontief Prize awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2018.

Best Publications

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

Branko Milanovic

2384
Citations
Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality

Branko Milanovic

1874
Citations
TRUE WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION, 1988 AND 1993: FIRST CALCULATION BASED ON HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS ALONE

Branko Milanovic

1553
Citations
Income, Inequality, and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to Market Economy

Branko Milanovic

1360
Citations
Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession

Christoph Lakner;Branko L. Milanovic

1045
Citations
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

Branko Milanović

947
Citations
The median-voter hypothesis, income inequality, and income redistribution: an empirical test with the required data

Branko Milanovic

839
Citations
Global Income Inequality: What it is And Why it Matters?

Branko Milanovic;Branko Milanovic

669
Citations
The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It

Branko Milanovic

607
Citations
EXPLAINING THE INCREASE IN INEQUALITY DURING THE TRANSITION

Branko Milanovic

567
Citations
CAN WE DISCERN THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys

Branko Milanovic

545
Citations
Pre‐Industrial Inequality*

Branko Milanovic;Peter H. Lindert;Jeffrey G. Williamson

519
Citations
Measuring ancient inequality

Branko Milanovic;Branko Milanovic;Peter H. Lindert;Peter H. Lindert;Jeffrey G. Williamson

510
Citations
Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class ?

Branko Milanovic;Shlomo Yitzhaki

473
Citations
Global income inequality by the numbers : in history and now --an overview--

Branko Milanovic;Branko Milanovic

463
Citations
Global Income Inequality in Numbers: in History and Now

Branko Milanovic

436
Citations
Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys

Branko Milanovic

344
Citations
Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does The World Have A Middle Class?

Branko Shlomo Yitzhaki Milanovic

331
Citations
A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries ☆

Branko Milanovic

271
Citations
Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Branko Milanovic;Lyn Squire

265
Citations
True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993 - first calculations, based on household surveys alone

Branko Milanovic

33
Citations
Decomposing World Income distribution : DoesThe World Have A Middle Class?

Branko Milanovic

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Lindert University of California, Davis

Mark Gradstein Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Jeffrey G. Williamson Harvard University

Janet C. Gornick City University of New York

Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank

Yasuyuki Sawada University of Tokyo

Shlomo Yitzhaki Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Peter F. Orazem Iowa State University

Julia Lane New York University

External Links

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