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D-Index
46
Citations
10335
World Ranking
1653
National Ranking
983

Dirk Krueger 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 Dirk Krueger sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 197 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dirk Krueger 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 Dirk Krueger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All!

    Juan Carlos Conesa;Sagiri Kitao;Dirk Krueger

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

    Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

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

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

  • Social Security Reform with Heterogeneous Agents

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dirk Krueger;Alexander Ludwig

  • On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code

    Juan Carlos Conesa;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger

  • Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality

    Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri

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

    Dirk Krueger;Felix Kubler

  • 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

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

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

  • Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

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

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

    Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

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

    Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

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

    Dirk Krueger;Krishna B. Kumar

  • Computing equilibrium in OLG models with stochastic production

    Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Felix Kubler

  • Public versus Private Risk Sharing

    Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri

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

    Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

  • Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic

    Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig;Taojun Xie

  • Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity

    Dirk Krueger;Kurt Mitman;Fabrizio Perri

  • Competitive risk sharing contracts with one-sided commitment

    Dirk Krueger;Harald Uhlig

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

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

  • Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

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

  • Housing, mortgage bailout guarantees and the macro economy

    Karsten Jeske;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Kurt Mitman

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Perri
Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Harold L. Cole
Harold L. Cole University of Pennsylvania
Hanno Lustig
Hanno Lustig Stanford University
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania
Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig University of Chicago
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University
Jonathan Heathcote
Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania
Giovanni L. Violante
Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University
George J. Mailath
George J. Mailath University of Pennsylvania

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