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David Hummels 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 David Hummels sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 111 publications — 20th percentile

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

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

David Hummels 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 Hummels sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 38th percentile

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

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

Overview

David Hummels is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research contributions include work on labor economics, business dynamics, and data replication in economic studies.

Recent publications by David Hummels encompass a range of topics and journals. These include:

  • No Pain, No Gain: Work Demand, Work Effort, and Worker Health, 2023, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Replication data for: No Pain, No Gain: Work Demand, Work Effort, and Worker Health, 2023, Harvard Dataverse
  • On the Ubiquity of Declining Business Dynamism, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • On the Ubiquity of Declining Business Dynamism, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

The publication venues where David Hummels has frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Harvard Dataverse

Collaboration is a part of their research approach, with recurring coauthors including:

  • Jakob Roland Munch
  • Chong Xiang
  • Yue Kan
  • Russell Hillberry

While specific fields and subfields of study have not been detailed, the titles and venues of their work suggest engagement with economics, particularly labor economics and business dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade

    David Hummels;Jun Ishii;Kei-Mu Yi

  • The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports

    David Hummels;Peter J. Klenow

  • Time as a Trade Barrier

    David Hummels

  • Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization

    David Hummels

  • Toward a Geography of Trade Costs

    David Hummels

  • Vertical Specialization and the Changing Nature of World Trade

    David Hummels;Dana Rapoport;Kei-Mu Yi

  • Toward a Geography of Trade Costs

    David Hummels

  • Time as a Trade Barrier

    David L. Hummels;David L. Hummels;Georg Schaur

  • Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian‐Allen Conjecture

    David Hummels;Alexandre Skiba

  • Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence

    David Hummels;James Levinsohn

  • The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data

    David Hummels;Rasmus Jørgensen;Jakob R Munch;Chong Xiang

  • How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?

    Thomas Hertel;David Hummels;Maros Ivanic;Roman Keeney

  • Vertical Specialization and the Changing Nature of World Trade

    David L. Hummels;David L. Hummels;Dana Rapoport;Kei-Mu Yi

  • Trade responses to geographic frictions: A decomposition using micro-data

    Russell Hillberry;David Hummels

  • Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

    Anca D Cristea;David Hummels;Laura Puzzello;Misak G Avetisyan

  • Alternative hypotheses and the volume of trade: the gravity equation and the extent of specialization

    Jon Haveman;David Hummels

  • Gender effects in laboratory public goods contribution: Do individuals put their money where their mouth is?

    Jamie Brown-Kruse;David Hummels

  • The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping

    David Hummels;Volodymyr Lugovskyy;Alexandre Skiba

  • Have International Transportation Costs Declined

    David Hummels

  • Intranational Home Bias: Some Explanations

    Russell Hillberry;David Hummels

  • Offshoring and Labor Markets

    David Hummels;Jakob Roland Munch;Chong Xiang

  • Are Matched Partner Trade Statistics a Usable Measure of Transportation Costs

    David Hummels;Volodymyr Lugovskyy

  • THE VARIETY AND QUALITY OF A NATION'S TRADE

    David Hummels;Peter J Klenow

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Peter J. Klenow
Peter J. Klenow Stanford University
Jean-Paul Chavas
Jean-Paul Chavas University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian D. Wright
Brian D. Wright University of California, Berkeley
James A. Levinsohn
James A. Levinsohn Yale University
Robert M. Stern
Robert M. Stern University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alan V. Deardorff
Alan V. Deardorff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gail Hanson
Gail Hanson University of California, Riverside
Drusilla K. Brown
Drusilla K. Brown Tufts University

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