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World Ranking
581
National Ranking
375

Overview

David N. Weil is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research encompasses several subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general health professions, spectroscopy, and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in their work include economic growth and productivity, digital economy and work transformation, employment and welfare studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, income, poverty and inequality, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research.

Recent publications by David N. Weil include the following:

  • The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty: A Simulation Exercise (2020, Journal of Human Capital)
  • Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • The Future of Occupational Safety and Health Protection in a Fissured Economy (2020, American Journal of Public Health)
  • Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies (2025, The Quarterly Journal of Economics)

Frequent co-authors of David N. Weil include:

  • Ellora Derenoncourt
  • Adam Storeygard
  • J. Vernon Henderson
  • Clemens Noelke

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with additional work published in the Journal of Human Capital, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Environmental Science & Technology, and the American Journal of Public Health.

Best Publications

  • A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

    N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer;David N. Weil

  • The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

    J. Vernon Henderson;Adam Storeygard;David N. Weil

  • The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth

    Oded Galor;Oded Galor;David N. Weil;David N. Weil

  • The baby boom, the baby bust, and the housing market

    N.Gregory Mankiw;David N. Weil

  • Accounting for the Effect Of Health on Economic Growth

    David N Weil

  • Appropriate Technology and Growth

    Susanto Basu;David N Weil

  • Saving and Growth: A Reinterpretation

    Christopher D. Carroll;David N. Weil

  • Saving and Growth with Habit Formation

    Christopher D. Carroll;Jody Overland;David N. Weil

  • House Price Dynamics: The Role of Tax Policy and Demography

    James M Poterba

  • From Malthusian stagnation to modern growth.

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya

    Isaac Mbiti;David N. Weil

  • Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

    Louis Putterman;David N. Weil

  • Mortality decline, human capital investment, and economic growth

    Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Harl E. Ryder;David N. Weil

  • An Asset Allocation Puzzle

    Niko Canner;N. Gregory Mankiw;David N Weil

  • Comparison Utility in a Growth Model

    Christopher D. Carroll;Jody Overland;David N. Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

    Oded Galor;Oded Galor;David N Weil;David N Weil

  • The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: A Study of the Founding of the Federal Reserve

    N. Gregory Mankiw;Jeffrey A Miron;David N Weil

  • The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade

    J. Vernon Henderson;Tim L Squires;Adam Storeygard;David N Weil

  • A Bright Idea for Measuring Economic Growth.

    J Vernon Henderson;Adam Storeygard;David N Weil

  • Health and Economic Growth

    David N. Weil

  • The Saving of the Elderly in Micro and Macro Data

    David N. Weil

  • The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: a Study of the Founding of the Federal Reserve

    N. Gregory Mankiw;N. Gregory Mankiw;Jeffrey A. Miron;Jeffrey A. Miron;David N. Weil;David N. Weil

  • How Much of Cross-Country Income Variation is Explained by Health?

    Gauri Kartini Shastry;David N. Weil

  • When Does Improving Health Raise GDP

    Quamrul Ashraf;Ashley Lester;David Weil

  • Appropriate Technology and Growth

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;David N. Weil;David N. Weil

  • Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequity

    Louis Putterman;David Weil

  • Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition

    Oded Galor;David N. Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Edwards
Sebastian Edwards University of California, Los Angeles
N. Gregory Mankiw
N. Gregory Mankiw Harvard University
Oded Galor
Oded Galor Brown University
Alan J. Auerbach
Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Miron
Jeffrey A. Miron Cato Institute
J. Vernon Henderson
J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Christopher D. Carroll
Christopher D. Carroll Johns Hopkins University
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Laurence J. Kotlikoff Boston University
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Brown University

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