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Political Science

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39
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7457
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National Ranking
300

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Overview

David Leblang is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and specializes in social sciences, contributing extensively to subfields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and finance.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to migration and labor dynamics, employment and welfare studies, migration, ethnicity, and economy, food security and health in diverse populations, agricultural risk and resilience, culture, economy, and development studies, as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leblang has authored several papers, including:

  • Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises (2020), published in International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Immigration and Globalization (and Deglobalization) (2022), published in Annual Review of Political Science
  • Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies (2021), published in American Journal of Political Science
  • Exporting Murder: US Deportations and the Spread of Violence (2020), published in International Studies Quarterly
  • Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking (2021), published in International Studies Quarterly

Frequent co-authors include Benjamin Helms, Michael D. Smith, Dennis Wesselbaum, Christian Ambrosius, and Jennifer Tobin.

Publishing frequently in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, International Journal for Equity in Health, and Annual Review of Political Science, Leblang's work spans different respected outlets in political and social sciences.

In addition to journal articles, Leblang has a book published by Cambridge University Press titled The Ties That Bind (2023).

Best Publications

  • The effect of cultural values on economic development: Theory, hypotheses, and some empirical tests

    Jim Granato;Ronald Inglehart;David Leblang

  • Capital Account Liberalization and Growth: Was Mr. Mahathir Right?

    Barry Eichengreen;David Leblang

  • DEMOCRACY AND GLOBALIZATION

    Barry Eichengreen;David Leblang

  • Property Rights, Democracy and Economic Growth:

    David A. Leblang

  • Democratic Institutions and Exchange-rate Commitments

    William T Bernhard;David Leblang

  • Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment

    David Leblang

  • Government Partisanship, Elections, and the Stock Market: Examining American and British Stock Returns, 1930–2000

    David Leblang;Bumba Mukherjee

  • To Devalue or to Defend? The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy

    David Leblang

  • Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration

    Jennifer Fitzgerald;David Leblang;Jessica C. Teets

  • Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics

    William T Bernhard;David Leblang

  • Political Democracy and Economic Growth: Pooled Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence

    David A. Leblang

  • Domestic Political Institutions and Exchange Rate Commitments in the Developing World

    David A. Leblang

  • Domestic and Systemic Determinants of Capital Controls in the Developed and Developing World

    David A. Leblang

  • Democratic processes, political risk, and foreign exchange markets

    William T Bernhard;David Leblang

  • The Political Economy of Speculative Attacks in the Developing World

    David A. Leblang

  • Exchange Rates and Cohesion: Historical Perspectives and Political‐Economy Considerations

    Barry Eichengreen;David Leblang

  • Explaining Wars Fought by Established Democracies: Do Institutional Constraints Matter?

    David Leblang;Steve Chan

  • Cultural values, stable democracy, and economic development: A reply

    Jim Granato;Ronald Inglehart;David Leblang

  • The Politics of Speculative Attacks in Industrial Democracies

    David Leblang;William Bernhard

  • Political Parties and Monetary Commitments

    William Bernhard;David Leblang

  • Institutions, Expectations, and Currency Crises

    David Leblang;Shanker Satyanath

  • Migration and Foreign Aid

    Sarah Blodgett Bermeo;David Leblang

  • Presidential Elections and the Stock Market: Comparing Markov-Switching and Fractionally Integrated GARCH Models of Volatility

    David Leblang;Bumba Mukherjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Steven C. Poe
Steven C. Poe University of North Texas
Ronald Inglehart
Ronald Inglehart University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffry Frieden
Jeffry Frieden Harvard University
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Marc Helbling
Marc Helbling University of Mannheim
David S. Brown
David S. Brown University of Colorado Boulder

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