2026 David Canning: 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	71	441	394	297	261	249	28319

Overview

David Canning is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular emphasis on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health; public health, environmental and occupational health; general health professions; gender studies; and economics and econometrics.

Their scholarly work covers a range of important topics including global maternal and child health, reproductive health and contraception, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, demographic trends and gender preferences, poverty, education and child welfare, healthcare systems and reforms, and global health care issues.

Frequent coauthors in David Canning's research include Iqbal Shah, Mahesh Karra, Sarah Huber-Krum, Ryoko Sato, and Julia K. Rohr.

They have published extensively in several academic venues, notably:

Studies in Family Planning
SSRN Electronic Journal
The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
Harvard Dataverse
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent papers include:

The association between age, COVID-19 symptoms, and social distancing behavior in the United States, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Why do women discontinue contraception and what are the post-discontinuation outcomes? Evidence from the Arusha Region, Tanzania, 2020, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
The distance-quality trade-off in women's choice of family planning provider in North Eastern Tanzania, 2020, BMJ Global Health
The association of in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution with low birth weight in India, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: A Production Function Approach

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Jaypee Sevilla

2017
Citations
The demographic dividend : a new perspective on the economic consequences of population change

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Jaypee Sevilla

1714
Citations
The Health and Wealth of Nations

David E. Bloom;David Canning

1392
Citations
Implications of population ageing for economic growth

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

1348
Citations
Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa

David Bloom;David Canning;Kevin Chan

1192
Citations
Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink;Jocelyn E. Finlay

1091
Citations
THE EFFECT OF HEALTH ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Jaypee Sevilla

1020
Citations
Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance

David E. Bloom;David Canning

1004
Citations
Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

708
Citations
Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

708
Citations
Longevity and Life-cycle Savings*

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Bryan Graham

706
Citations
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Jaypee Sevilla

635
Citations
Global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance

David E. Bloom;David Canning

614
Citations
The Demographic Dividend: A New Perspective on the Economic Consequences of Population Change

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612
Citations
INFRASTRUCTURE, LONG‐RUN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CAUSALITY TESTS FOR COINTEGRATED PANELS

David Canning;Peter Pedroni

598
Citations
The social rate of return on infrastructure investments

David Canning;Esra Bennathan

561
Citations
Infrastructure's contribution to aggregate output

David Canning

554
Citations
Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Richard K. Mansfield;Michael Moore

544
Citations
Demographic Change and Economic Growth in Asia

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Pia N. Malaney

538
Citations
Population dynamics and economic growth in Asia.

Bloom De;Canning D;Malaney Pn

494
Citations
A database of world infrastructure stocks, 1950-95

David Canning

469
Citations
The economic consequences of reproductive health and family planning

David Canning;T Paul Schultz

448
Citations
A database of world infrastructure stocks, 1950-95

David Canning

448
Citations
The Value of Vaccination

David E. Bloom;David Canning;Mark Weston

412
Citations
Program on the Global Demography of Aging

David E. Bloom;David Canning

33
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Bloom Harvard University

Günther Fink Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University

Ajay Mahal University of Melbourne

S. V. Subramanian Harvard University

Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco

Klaus Prettner Vienna University of Economics and Business

Sebastian Vollmer University of Göttingen

M. Maria Glymour Boston University

Winnie Yip Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of David Canning Google Scholar page

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