2026 Dan A. Black: 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	44	1818	1635	1071	939	144	12699

Dan A. Black 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 Dan A. Black sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 144 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dan A. Black 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 Dan A. Black sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dan A. Black is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and economics, with notable contributions to fields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, gender studies, and media technology.

The scientist has published extensively in the following main fields of study:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields of study covered include:

Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics
Statistics and Probability
Gender Studies
Media Technology

The main topics addressed by Dan A. Black's research are:

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
ICT Impact and Policies
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Statistical Methods and Inference

Frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Computers Environment and Urban Systems
Labour Economics
Journal of Public Economics

Dan A. Black has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Jeffrey A. Smith
Jeffrey Grogger
Tom Kirchmaier
Koen Sanders
J. Saxon

Their recent papers demonstrate a variety of topics and publication venues:

College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap (2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives)
What we can learn from selected, unmatched data: Measuring internet inequality in Chicago (2022, Computers Environment and Urban Systems)
Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables (2022, Labour Economics)
Overcoming Financial Constraints and Migrating Out of Rural and Distressed America (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Relaxing financial constraints with tax credits and migrating out of rural and distressed America (2024, Journal of Public Economics)

Best Publications

How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching

Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Jeffrey A. Smith

991
Citations
Job Matching and On-the-Job Training

John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

647
Citations
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE COAL BOOM AND BUST

Dan Black;Terra McKinnish;Seth Sanders

594
Citations
Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality

Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith

562
Citations
Discrimination in an Equilibrium Search Model

Dan A. Black

526
Citations
Employer Size: The Implications for Search, Training, Capital Investment, Starting Wages, and Wage Growth

John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

508
Citations
Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System *

Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Mark C. Berger;Brett J. Noel

490
Citations
The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust

Dan Black;Kermit Daniel;Seth Sanders

477
Citations
Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses

Alison L. Booth;Dennis J. Snower

473
Citations
Do Workers Pay for On-the-Job Training?.

John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

446
Citations
The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families

Dan A. Black;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

418
Citations
THE EARNINGS EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Dan A. Black;Hoda R. Makar;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

414
Citations
Bidding for Firms

Dan A Black;William H Hoyt

385
Citations
Gender differences in training, capital, and wages

John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

359
Citations
Why Do Gay Men Live in San Francisco

Dan Black;Gary Gates;Seth Sanders;Lowell Taylor

349
Citations
Child Care Subsidies, Quality of Care, and the Labor Supply of Low-Income, Single Mothers

Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

318
Citations
Bounding Parameter Estimates with Nonclassical Measurement Error

Dan A. Black;Mark C. Berger;Frank A. Scott

274
Citations
On the Measurement of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models

Dan A. Black;Thomas K. Kniesner

272
Citations
On-The-Job Training

John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

268
Citations
Tight labor markets and the demand for education: Evidence from the coal boom and bust

Dan A. Black;Terra G. McKinnish;Seth G. Sanders

262
Citations
Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities

Dan A. Black;Natalia A. Kolesnikova;Lowell J. Taylor

262
Citations
Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated

Dan A. Black;Amelia M. Haviland;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

257
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lowell J. Taylor Carnegie Mellon University

Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mark C. Berger University of Kentucky

John M. Barron Purdue University West Lafayette

Michael R. Baye Indiana University

Gary J. Gates University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University

Erik Hurst University of Chicago

Stuart S. Rosenthal Cornell University

Amitabh Chandra Harvard University

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