2026 Edward Vytlacil: 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	45	1706	1531	1007	880	91	17941

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Edward Vytlacil is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research centers on intersecting topics in economics, econometrics, and decision sciences, with contributions spanning several specialized subfields including statistics and probability, as well as experimental behavioral economics studies.

Their recent scholarly work includes papers published across different venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Selected publications are:

"Front Matter," 2020, Journal of Human Capital
"Issue Information," 2023, Journal of Applied Econometrics
"Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay to Decompose Beliefs and Preferences that Determine Selection into Competition in Lab Experiments," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Eliciting willingness-to-pay to decompose beliefs and preferences that determine selection into competition in lab experiments," 2024, Journal of Econometrics
"On the Identifying Power of Generalized Monotonicity for Average Treatment Effects," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors working with Edward Vytlacil include:

Sarah Moon
Yuehao Bai
Shunzhuang Huang
Azeem M. Shaikh
James J. Heckman

Publications are often featured in journals and repositories that focus on economics and econometrics as well as working papers and preprints, with several contributions to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Econometrics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Human Capital
Journal of Applied Econometrics

Their research spans a range of fields and subfields, notably:

Statistics and Probability
Economics and Econometrics
General Decision Sciences
Safety Research
Hematology

Their work addresses several main topics including:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Statistical Methods and Inference
Hemophilia Treatment and Research
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Edward Vytlacil was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2011.

Best Publications

Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation

James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

2862
Citations
STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS, TREATMENT EFFECTS, AND ECONOMETRIC POLICY EVALUATION

James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

1231
Citations
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J. Heckman;Sergio Urzua;Edward Vytlacil

1183
Citations
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J Heckman;Sergio Urzua;Edward J Vytlacil

1167
Citations
Estimating marginal returns to education

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

891
Citations
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation

James Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

863
Citations
Local instrumental variables and latent variable models for identifying and bounding treatment effects.

James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

793
Citations
Chapter 70 Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation ⁎

James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

665
Citations
Independence, Monotonicity, and Latent Index Models: An Equivalence Result

Edward Vytlacil

632
Citations
Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect

James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

497
Citations
Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability

John Cawley;James Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

487
Citations
Instrumental variables methods for the correlated random coefficient model

James Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

415
Citations
Chapter 71 Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part II: Using the Marginal Treatment Effect to Organize Alternative Econometric Estimators to Evaluate Social Programs, and to Forecast their Effects in New Environments ⁎

James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

410
Citations
Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects

James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

402
Citations
Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling

James Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

364
Citations
Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs

James Heckman;Justin L. Tobias;Edward Vytlacil

360
Citations
Estimating treatment effects for discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary: an application to Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs

Arild Aakvik;James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

315
Citations
Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects

J.P. Florensy;J. Heckmanz;C. Meghirx;Edward Vytlacil

313
Citations
Local Instrumental Variables

James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

301
Citations
LIAR'S LOAN? EFFECTS OF ORIGINATION CHANNEL AND INFORMATION FALSIFICATION ON MORTGAGE DELINQUENCY

Wei Jiang;Ashlyn Aiko Nelson;Edward Vytlacil

288
Citations
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil;Edward Vytlacil;Sergio Urzua

234
Citations
Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects

Jean-Pierre Florens;James J Heckman;Costas Meghir;Edward J Vytlacil

222
Citations
Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

183
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Heckman University of Chicago

John Cawley Cornell University

Pedro Carneiro University College London

Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University

Costas Meghir Yale University

Christopher Taber University of Wisconsin–Madison

Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago

Philip J. Reny University of Chicago

External Links

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