2026 Dirk Krueger: 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	46	1653	1480	983	856	197	10335

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Dirk Krueger is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with 34 publications in this area. Subfields of study associated with their work include Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist's research spans several key topics, notably Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis; COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts; Economic theories and models; Income, Poverty, and Inequality; Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth; Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics; and Housing Market and Economics.

Dirk Krueger has frequently collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career, including Harald Uhlig, Alexander Ludwig, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Andrew Glover, and Jonathan Heathcote. These collaborations reflect a network of research contributing to various aspects of economic study.

The frequent venues where their work has been published are:

SSRN Electronic Journal (22 publications)
Journal of Monetary Economics (2 publications)
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics (2 publications)
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Papers (2 publications)
The Economic Journal (1 publication)

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Dirk Krueger are:

"Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
"How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?" (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal

Other prominent papers include:

"The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures" (2022), The Economic Journal
"Consumption Insurance against Wage Risk: Family Labor Supply and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation" (2020), American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"Health versus wealth: On the distributional effects of controlling a pandemic" (2023), Journal of Monetary Economics

In 2020, Dirk Krueger was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an award reflecting acknowledgement in the field of economics and econometrics.

Best Publications

Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri

1500
Citations
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All!

Juan Carlos Conesa;Sagiri Kitao;Dirk Krueger

1015
Citations
Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

611
Citations
CONSUMPTION AND SAVING OVER THE LIFE CYCLE: HOW IMPORTANT ARE CONSUMER DURABLES?

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

573
Citations
Social Security Reform with Heterogeneous Agents

Juan C. Conesa;Juan C. Conesa;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger

536
Citations
Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

472
Citations
Skill-specific rather than General Education: A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences? ∗

Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Krishna B. Kumar

468
Citations
On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Returns to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare

Dirk Krueger;Alexander Ludwig

450
Citations
On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code

Juan Carlos Conesa;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger

445
Citations
Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality

Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri

423
Citations
Pareto-Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete!?

Dirk Krueger;Felix Kubler

383
Citations
Cross-sectional facts for macroeconomists ✩

Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri;Luigi Pistaferri;Luigi Pistaferri;Luigi Pistaferri;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

339
Citations
Inequality trends for Germany in the last two decades: A tale of two countries ✩

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Mathias Sommer

285
Citations
Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

Dirk Kreuger;Dirk Kreuger;Dirk Kreuger;Fabrizio Perri;Fabrizio Perri;Fabrizio Perri

285
Citations
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic: Evaluating the "Swedish Solution"

Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

270
Citations
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic: Evaluating the “Swedish Solution”

Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

257
Citations
US-Europe Differences in Technology-Driven Growth: Quantifying the Role of Education

Dirk Krueger;Krishna B. Kumar

232
Citations
Computing equilibrium in OLG models with stochastic production

Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Felix Kubler

225
Citations
Public versus Private Risk Sharing

Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri

214
Citations
Consumption over the Life Cycle: Some Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

200
Citations
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic

Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

200
Citations
Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity

Dirk Krueger;Kurt Mitman;Fabrizio Perri

199
Citations
Competitive risk sharing contracts with one-sided commitment

Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig

195
Citations
Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;Jose-Victor Rios-Rull

175
Citations
Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

147
Citations
Housing, mortgage bailout guarantees and the macro economy

Karsten Jeske;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Kurt Mitman

131
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Harold L. Cole University of Pennsylvania

Hanno Lustig Stanford University

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania

Harald Uhlig University of Chicago

Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University

Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania

Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University

George J. Mailath University of Pennsylvania

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