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Christopher Taber 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 Taber sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Christopher Taber 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 Taber sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christopher Taber is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields within economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with a focus on understanding labor markets, demographic factors, and economic modeling.

Their research topics include:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Economic theories and models

Christopher Taber has contributed to various subfields, notably:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Demography
  • Gender Studies
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Several publication venues have featured their work, including:

  • Econometrica
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • Journal of Labor Economics

Christopher Taber's recent papers cover diverse aspects of labor economics and econometric modeling. These include:

  • "Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market," 2020, Econometrica
  • "Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Retirement," 2023, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Understanding women's wage growth using indirect inference with importance sampling," 2021, Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • "Thoughts on 'Transparency in Structural Research'," 2020, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • "Introduction: A Special Issue in Honor of Joseph Altonji," 2020, Journal of Labor Economics

Their research collaborations involve frequent coauthors such as:

  • Ananth Seshadri
  • Xiaodong Fan
  • Rune Vejlin
  • Robert M. Sauer

Best Publications

  • Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

    James Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

    James J. Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • Estimation of educational borrowing constraints using returns to schooling

    Stephen V. Cameron;Christopher Taber

  • Inference with “Difference in Differences” with a Small Number of Policy Changes

    Timothy G. Conley;Christopher R. Taber

  • An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation

    James J Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Sørensen;Christopher R Taber

  • The Rising College Premium in the Eighties: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?

    Christopher R. Taber

  • Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers

    Tricia Lynn Gladden;Christopher R. Taber

  • General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

    James Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program

    James Heckman;Jeffrey Smith;Christopher Taber

  • Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables When Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Borrowing Constraints and the Returns to Schooling

    Stephen Cameron;Christopher Taber

  • Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Programs

    James Heckman;Jeffrey Smith;Christopher Taber

  • Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

    Joseph G. Altonji;Ching-I Huang;Christopher R. Taber

  • Difference-in-Differences Method in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Utility with Unbalanced Groups

    Huanxue Zhou;Christopher Taber;Steve Arcona;Yunfeng Li

  • Life-Cycle Wage Growth and Heterogeneous Human Capital

    Carl Sanders;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

  • Identification of Models of the Labor Market

    Eric French;Christopher Taber

  • Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market

    Christopher Taber;Rune Vejlin

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Soerensen;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

  • The Rising College Premium in the Eighties: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?

    Christopher R. Taber

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Heckman
James J. Heckman University of Chicago
Joseph G. Altonji
Joseph G. Altonji Yale University
Lance Lochner
Lance Lochner University of Western Ontario
Hidehiko Ichimura
Hidehiko Ichimura University of Tokyo
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Helena Skyt Nielsen Aarhus University
Eric French
Eric French University of Cambridge
Jeffrey A. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bhashkar Mazumder
Bhashkar Mazumder University of California, Irvine
Francis Kramarz
Francis Kramarz Collège de France
Steven N. Durlauf
Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago

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