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Douglas O. Staiger

Douglas O. Staiger

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
78
Citations
54327
World Ranking
420
National Ranking
199

Douglas O. Staiger publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas O. Staiger sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 188 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Douglas O. Staiger D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas O. Staiger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Douglas O. Staiger is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a strong focus on education and health-related topics. Their research portfolio includes work across subfields such as education, general health professions, emergency medical services, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and economics and econometrics.

The main topics explored by Staiger encompass school choice and performance, global health workforce issues, infant development and preterm care, primary care and health outcomes, youth substance use and school attendance, nursing roles and practices, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Staiger has authored or coauthored several papers, notable among these are:

  • Implications Of The Rapid Growth Of The Nurse Practitioner Workforce In The US, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Older Clinicians and the Surge in Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 2020, JAMA
  • Nurse Employment During The First Fifteen Months Of The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022, Health Affairs
  • Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Projecting the Future Registered Nurse Workforce After the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2024, JAMA Health Forum

Frequent coauthors working with Staiger include:

  • David I. Auerbach
  • Peter I. Buerhaus
  • Thomas J. Kane
  • Max C. Yates
  • Dan Goldhaber

The most common venues for Staiger's publications include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
  • Health Affairs
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics

Staiger's work intersects several health and education disciplines and addresses complex issues such as healthcare workforce dynamics and education effectiveness. Their contributions have been recognized with the honor of becoming a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.

Best Publications

  • INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES REGRESSION WITH WEAK INSTRUMENTS

    Douglas Staiger;James H. Stock

  • Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • What does certification tell us about teacher effectiveness?: evidence from New York City

    Thomas J. Kane;Jonah E. Rockoff;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Implications of an aging registered nurse workforce.

    Peter I. Buerhaus;Douglas O. Staiger;David I. Auerbach

  • Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observations with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains. Research Paper. MET Project.

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • The NAIRU, Unemployment and Monetary Policy

    Douglas Staiger;James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • The Recent Surge In Nurse Employment: Causes And Implications

    Peter I. Buerhaus;David I. Auerbach;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

    Justine S. Hastings;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information

    Douglas O. Staiger;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Have We Identified Effective Teachers?: Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment

    Thomas J. Kane;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Trey Miller;Douglas Staiger

  • School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment.

    David James Deming;Justine S. Hastings;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

    Doug Staiger;James Stock;Mark Watson

  • Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher when You Recruit One

    Jonah E. Rockoff;Brian A. Jacob;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Productivity Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

    Amitabh Chandra;Douglas O. Staiger

  • School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices

    Thomas J. Kane;Stephanie K. Riegg;Douglas O. Staiger

  • The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications

    David I. Auerbach;Peter Buerhaus;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff

    Elliott S. Fisher;Douglas O. Staiger;Julie P.W. Bynum;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    Douglas O. Staiger;Joanne Spetz;Ciaran S. Phibbs

  • Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the “Marginal Child”?

    Jonathan Gruber;Phillip B. Levine;Douglas Staiger

  • Volatility in School Test Scores: Implications for Test-Based Accountability Systems

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Kane
Thomas J. Kane Harvard University
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra Harvard University
Justine S. Hastings
Justine S. Hastings University of Washington
Jonah E. Rockoff
Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University
Phillip B. Levine
Phillip B. Levine Wellesley College
Justin B. Dimick
Justin B. Dimick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan S. Skinner
Jonathan S. Skinner Dartmouth College
James H. Stock
James H. Stock Harvard University
John D. Birkmeyer
John D. Birkmeyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan Duke University

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