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Christopher A. Parsons publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Parsons sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 113 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Christopher A. Parsons D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Parsons sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher A. Parsons is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences, with a particular focus on migration, labor dynamics, and related economic and political topics.

The scientist's main fields of study include social sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, communication, and accounting.

Their work covers a variety of research topics, notably:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • International Development and Aid
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Taxation and Legal Issues
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Christopher A. Parsons has published numerous papers in well-regarded venues. Some recent papers include:

  • "Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements" (2022), Journal of Development Economics
  • "The Information Security Cultures of Journalism" (2020), Digital Journalism
  • "Climate change, migration and voice" (2021), Climatic Change
  • "Immigration, Political Ideologies and the Polarization of American Politics" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include Luciana C. Fiorini, Christopher F. Parmeter, Michael Jetter, Pierre-Louis Vézina, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata.

Christopher A. Parsons's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • Digital Journalism

Best Publications

  • The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets

    Joseph E. Engelberg;Christopher A. Parsons

  • Friends with Money

    Joseph Engelberg;Pengjie Gao;Christopher A. Parsons

  • Journalists and the Stock Market

    Casey Dougal;Joseph Engelberg;Diego García;Christopher A. Parsons

  • Where on earth is everybody ? the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000

    Caglar Ozden;Christopher R. Parsons;Maurice Schiff;Terrie L. Walmsley

  • Climatic factors as determinants of international migration

    Michel Beine;Christopher R Parsons

  • Global talent flows

    Sari Pekkala Kerr;William Robert Kerr;Caglar Ozden;Christopher Robert Parsons

  • The Price of a CEO's Rolodex*

    Joseph Engelberg;Pengjie Gao;Christopher A. Parsons

  • Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth

    Casey Dougal;Christopher A. Parsons;Sheridan Titman

  • Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation

    Christopher A. Parsons;Johan Sulaeman;Michael C. Yates;Daniel S. Hamermesh

  • The Geography of Financial Misconduct: The Geography of Financial Misconduct

    Christopher A. Parsons;Johan Sulaeman;Sheridan Titman

  • Empirical Capital Structure: A Review

    Christopher Parsons;Sheridan Titman

  • A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of non-OECD Destinations

    Erhan Artuc;Frederic Docquier;Caglar Ozden;Christopher Parsons

  • The Gravity of High-Skilled Migration Policies

    Mathias Czaika;Christopher R Parsons

  • Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment

    Christopher Parsons;Pierre Louis Vézina

  • The Geography of Financial Misconduct

    Christopher A. Parsons;Johan Sulaeman;Sheridan Titman

  • Quantifying International Migration: A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks

    Christopher R. Parsons;Ronald Skeldon;Terrie L. Walmsley;L. Alan Winters;L. Alan Winters;L. Alan Winters

  • Quantifying international migration : a database of bilateral migrant stocks

    Christopher Parsons;Ronald Skeldon;Terrie Walmsley;L. Winters

  • Migration and development: Dissecting the anatomy of the mobility transition

    Thu Hien Dao;Frédéric Docquier;Frédéric Docquier;Chris Parsons;Giovanni Peri

  • Networks and productivity: Causal evidence from editor rotations

    Jonathan Brogaard;Joseph Engelberg;Christopher A. Parsons

  • Worrying about the Stock Market: Evidence from Hospital Admissions

    Joseph Engelberg;Christopher A. Parsons

  • High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    Sari Pekkala Kerr;William Robert Kerr;William Robert Kerr;Çağlar Özden;Christopher Parsons;Christopher Parsons

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheridan Titman
Sheridan Titman The University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Engelberg
Joseph Engelberg University of California, San Diego
Caglar Ozden
Caglar Ozden World Bank
Terrie Walmsley
Terrie Walmsley University of Southern California
Frédéric Docquier
Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
William R. Kerr
William R. Kerr Harvard University
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel S. Hamermesh The University of Texas at Austin
L. Alan Winters
L. Alan Winters University of Sussex
Michel Beine
Michel Beine University of Luxembourg
Maurice Schiff
Maurice Schiff Institute of Labor Economics

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