2026 Emmanuel Saez: 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	97	122	110	94	83	289	72033

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

Overview

Emmanuel Saez is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, education, accounting, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their work covers diverse topics including intergenerational and educational inequality studies, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, higher education research studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, income, poverty, and inequality, as well as corporate taxation and avoidance.

Among their recent publications are several papers published in notable venues:

Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts, 2020, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Distributional National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts Used in the World Inequality Database, 2020, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Rethinking capital and wealth taxation, 2023, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Ending Corporate Tax Avoidance and Tax Competition: A Plan to Collect the Tax Deficit of Multinationals, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Emmanuel Saez has frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors, including Raj Chetty, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan, John N. Friedman, and Gabriel Zucman. These collaborations have contributed to an extensive publication record.

Their publications are mainly found in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Journal of Public Economics.

Best Publications

Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

5682
Citations
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States*

Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Patrick Kline;Emmanuel Saez

4308
Citations
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

Anthony Barnes Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

3652
Citations
Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data

Emmanuel Saez;Gabriel Zucman

2484
Citations
World Inequality Report 2018

Facundo Alvaredo;Lucas Chancel;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

2212
Citations
The role of information and social interactions in retirement plan decisions: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Esther Duflo;Emmanuel Saez

2154
Citations
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star

Raj Chetty;John Norton Friedman;John Norton Friedman;Nathanial Hilger;Nathanial Hilger;Emmanuel Saez;Emmanuel Saez

2092
Citations
The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review

Emmanuel Saez;Joel B Slemrod;Seth H Giertz

1709
Citations
Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence From a Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven;Martin B. Knudsen;Claus Thustrup Kreiner;Søren Pedersen

1649
Citations
Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates

Emmanuel Saez

1508
Citations
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Gabriel Zucman

1472
Citations
The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1449
Citations
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

David Card;Alexandre Mas;Enrico Moretti;Emmanuel Saez

1445
Citations
The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications

Jon Gruber;Jon Gruber;Emmanuel Saez;Emmanuel Saez

1431
Citations
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1405
Citations
Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Patrick Kline;Emmanuel Saez

1367
Citations
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Ilyana Kuziemko;Michael Irwin Norton;Emmanuel Saez;Stefana Pentcheva Stantcheva

1331
Citations
Inequality in the long run.

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1288
Citations
Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities †

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Stefanie Stantcheva

1273
Citations
The Top 1% in International and Historical Perspective

Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1155
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics

Raj Chetty Harvard University

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven Princeton University

Esther Duflo MIT

Anthony B. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science

Wojciech Kopczuk Columbia University

David Card University of California, Berkeley

Mike Brewer University of Essex

Jonathan Gruber MIT

Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley

External Links

Wikipedia of Emmanuel Saez Personal website of Emmanuel Saez Google Scholar page

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