2026 Bruce D. Meyer: 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	57	938	838	591	516	230	17981

Research.com Recognitions

1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bruce D. Meyer is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily covers social sciences with notable contributions spanning sociology and political science, general health professions, gender studies, economics and econometrics, and accounting.

Meyer's scholarly work addresses various topics within social sciences, including:

Gender, labor, and family dynamics
Urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies
Food security and health in diverse populations
Homelessness and social issues
Financial literacy, pension, and retirement analysis
Income, poverty, and inequality
Healthcare policy and management

They have published frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, contributing 39 publications, as well as in the National Tax Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, AEA Papers and Proceedings, and The Journal of Human Resources.

Among Meyer's recent papers are:

"Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation," 2020, The Journal of Human Resources
"The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States," 2020, Journal of Labor Economics
"Consumption and Income Inequality in the United States since the 1960s," 2022, Journal of Political Economy
"The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of the Proposed Child Tax Credit Expansion," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
"The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population," 2023, Journal of Urban Economics

Meyer frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Nikolas Mittag, Angela Wyse, Derek Wu, James X. Sullivan, and Pablo Celhay, each with multiple joint publications.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1993.

Best Publications

Unemployment insurance and unemployment spells

Bruce D. Meyer

4811
Citations
Natural and Quasi- Experiments in Economics

Breed D. Meyer

2704
Citations
Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells

Bruce D. Meyer;Bruce D. Meyer

2648
Citations
Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

Bruce D. Meyer;Dan T. Rosenbaum

1774
Citations
Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Bruce D. Meyer;James X. Sullivan

1510
Citations
The impact of the potential duration of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment

Lawrence F. Katz;Bruce D. Meyer

1154
Citations
Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations.

Robert W. Fairlie;Bruce D. Meyer

951
Citations
The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

Bruce D. Meyer;Wallace K. C. Mok;James X. Sullivan

844
Citations
Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance

Alan B. Krueger;Bruce D. Meyer

666
Citations
Household Surveys in Crisis

Bruce Meyer;Wallace K C Mok;James Sullivan

652
Citations
Household Surveys in Crisis

Bruce D. Meyer;Wallace K. C. Mok;James X. Sullivan

624
Citations
Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance

Alan Krueger;Bruce Meyer

619
Citations
Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Entry

William M. Gentry;R. Glenn Hubbard

595
Citations
A longitudinal analysis of the young self-employed in Australia and the United States

David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;Bruce D. Meyer;Bruce D. Meyer;Bruce D. Meyer

569
Citations
Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Bruce Meyer;James Sullivan

567
Citations
Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Bruce D. Meyer;James X. Sullivan

565
Citations
Lessons from the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Experiments

Bruce D. Meyer

535
Citations
Workers' compensation and injury duration: evidence from a natural experiment

Bruce D Meyer;W. Kip Viscusi;David L Durbin

532
Citations
Unemployment Insurance, Recall Expectations, and Unemployment Outcomes

Lawrence F. Katz;Bruce D. Meyer

523
Citations
Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Bruce D. Meyer;Wallace K.C. Mok

445
Citations
Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects

Bruce D. Meyer;Dan T. Rosenbaum

438
Citations
The Extent and Consequences of Job Turnover

Patricia M. Anderson;Bruce D. Meyer;John Pencavel;Mark J. Roberts

423
Citations
The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

Bruce D Meyer;Bruce D Meyer;Wallace K. C Mok;James X Sullivan

418
Citations
Unemployment Insurance Takeup Rates and the After-Tax Value of Benefits

Patricia M. Anderson;Bruce D. Meyer

353
Citations
The effects of the unemployment insurance payroll tax on wages, employment, claims and denials

Patricia M Anderson;Bruce D Meyer

351
Citations
Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure

Bruce D. Meyer;James X. Sullivan

294
Citations
Consumption and Income Inequality and the Great Recession

Bruce D. Meyer;James X. Sullivan

268
Citations
Trends in Self-Employment among White and Black Men during the Twentieth Century

Robert W. Fairlie;Bruce D. Meyer

240
Citations
The effects of welfare and tax reform: the material well-being of single mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

Bruce D Meyer;James X Sullivan

215
Citations
Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce D Meyer;Nikolas Mittag;Robert M Goerge

203
Citations
Labor Supply at the Extensive and Intensive Margins: The EITC, Welfare, and Hours Worked

Bruce D. Meyer

191
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Fairlie University of California, Los Angeles

Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University

Alan B. Krueger Princeton University

David G. Blanchflower Dartmouth College

Robert Kaestner University of Chicago

W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University

John H. Pencavel Stanford University

Kerwin Kofi Charles Yale University

David Card University of California, Berkeley

External Links

Personal website of Bruce D. Meyer

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