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David G. Blanchflower

David G. Blanchflower

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
74
Citations
37754
World Ranking
362
National Ranking
250

David G. Blanchflower publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 240 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David G. Blanchflower 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 David G. Blanchflower sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David G. Blanchflower is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their research spans several areas within psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on psychological well-being, employment, and health-related topics.

Their scientific contributions include multiple recent papers published in recognized journals. Notable publications are:

  • Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries, 2020, Journal of Population Economics
  • US AND UK LABOUR MARKETS BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 CRASH, 2020, National Institute Economic Review
  • Unhappiness and age, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Covid and mental health in America, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Trends in Extreme Distress in the United States, 1993-2019, 2020, American Journal of Public Health

Their research often intersects with topics including psychological well-being, employment conditions, and health disparities. Main topics of their work include:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Economic Theory and Policy

David G. Blanchflower's research fields extend over psychology and social sciences. The primary fields covered by their work are:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study reflect an interdisciplinary approach:

  • Social Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science

Frequent publication venues for David G. Blanchflower's research include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Population Economics
  • National Institute Economic Review
  • Social Indicators Research

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers. Common co-authors are:

  • Alex Bryson
  • Carol Graham
  • David Bell
  • Alan Piper
  • Jackson Spurling

Best Publications

  • Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • What Makes an Entrepreneur

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Self-employment in OECD countries

    David G. Blanchflower

  • The wage curve

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Self-Employment: More May Not Be Better

    David G. Blanchflower

  • Young people and the Great Recession

    David N. F. Bell;David G. Blanchflower

  • Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

    David G Blanchflower;Phillip B Levine;David J Zimmerman

  • Latent entrepreneurship across nations

    David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald;Alois Stutzer

  • Wages, Profits, and Rent-Sharing

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald;Peter Sanfey

  • Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • An Introduction to the Wage Curve

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the US revisited

    David Blanchflower;Alex Bryson

  • A longitudinal analysis of the young self-employed in Australia and the United States

    David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;Bruce D. Meyer;Bruce D. Meyer;Bruce D. Meyer

  • The Wage Curve Reloaded

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Obesity and Stature in Adolescence and Earnings in Young Adulthood: Analysis of a British Birth Cohort

    James D. Sargent;David G. Blanchflower

  • International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Hypertension and happiness across nations

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • A comparison of changes in the structure of wages in four OECD countries

    Lawrence F Katz;Gary W Loveman;David G Blanchflower

  • Unionism in the United States and other advanced OECD countries

    David G. Blanchflower;Richard B. Freeman

  • Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries

    David G Blanchflower

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Oswald
Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick
Alex Bryson
Alex Bryson University College London
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Stephen Machin
Stephen Machin London School of Economics and Political Science
Simon Burgess
Simon Burgess University of Bristol
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
Bruce D. Meyer
Bruce D. Meyer University of Chicago
Carol Graham
Carol Graham Brookings Institution
Phillip B. Levine
Phillip B. Levine Wellesley College
Andrew E. Clark
Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics

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