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D-Index
60
Citations
16296
World Ranking
822
National Ranking
512

Burton A. Weisbrod 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 Burton A. Weisbrod sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 213 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Burton A. Weisbrod 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 Burton A. Weisbrod sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Burton A. Weisbrod is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions. Their work spans subfields including Education, General Health Professions, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research covers several topics such as:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Weisbrod has published in venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal. The following recent papers illustrate key areas of their research focus and were all published in 2025:

  • "<p>Why Strong Performance Rewards in Government and Nonprofit Programs Don't Work -- A Social Heisenberg Principle, paper 1 in the series: The Perils of Pay for Performance in Public Service Industries</p>" (2025), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Incentives in K-12 Education -The Perils of Not Just Measuring Performance by Standardized Tests, but Financially Rewarding It Working Paper 2 in the Series: The Perils of Pay for Performance in Public Service Industries" (2025), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Financial Rewards for Health Care Program Outcomes and Why They Can and Do Lead to Undesired Results Working Paper 3 in the Series: The Perils of Pay for Performance in Public Service Industries" (2025), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors include Lewis M. Segal.

Weisbrod has received several recognitions in their field, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1989
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 1977
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1969

Best Publications

  • The Nonprofit Economy

    Burton Allen Weisbrod

  • Collective-Consumption Services of Individual-Consumption Goods

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Economic Efficiency and the Distribution of Benefits from College Instruction

    Ackwwl Hansen;BA Weisbrod

  • To profit or not to profit : the commercial transformation of the nonprofit sector

    Burton Allen Weisbrod;Kenneth Joseph Arrow

  • Determinants of donations in private nonprofit markets

    Cagla Okten;Burton Allen Weisbrod

  • Demand for collective goods in private nonprofit markets: Can fundraising expenditures help overcome free-rider behavior?

    Burton A. Weisbrod;Nestor D. Dominguez

  • Volunteer labor supply

    Paul L Menchik;Burton A Weisbrod

  • Education and Investment in Human Capital

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Alternative to mental hospital treatment. II. Economic benefit-cost analysis.

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  • The future of the nonprofit sector: Its entwining with private enterprise and government

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Toward a Theory of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector in a Three-Sector Economy

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Scholarships, Citations and Salaries: Economic Rewards in Economics

    Daniel S. Hamermesh;George E. Johnson;Burton A. Weisbrod

  • To Profit or Not to Profit: Overview, conclusions, and public-policy issues

    Burton A. Weisbrod;Kenneth J. Arrow

  • The Valuation of Human Capital

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Nonprofit and Proprietary Sector Behavior: Wage Differentials Among Lawyers

    Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Managerial compensation and incentives in for-profit and nonprofit hospitals

    Myron J. Roomkin;Burton A. Weisbrod

  • The Voluntary Nonprofit Sector: An Economic Analysis

    Burton Allen Weisbrod

  • AN INCOME-NET WORTH APPROACH TO MEASURING ECONOMIC WELFARE

    Burton A. Weisbrod;W. Lee Hansen

  • The Distribution of Costs and Direct Benefits of Public Higher Education: The Case of California.

    W. Lee Hansen;Burton A. Weisbrod

  • Mission and Money: Understanding the University

    Burton Allen Weisbrod;Jeffrey P. Ballou;Evelyn Diane Asch

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Robert E. Baldwin
Robert E. Baldwin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nancy Wolff
Nancy Wolff Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas G. McGuire
Thomas G. McGuire Harvard University
Paul J. Devereux
Paul J. Devereux University College Dublin
Arnold M. Epstein
Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University
Robert Haveman
Robert Haveman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel S. Hamermesh The University of Texas at Austin

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