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  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Eric Neumayer is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with extensive work across subfields such as sociology and political science, modeling and simulation, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of their research encompass COVID-19 epidemiological studies, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, political conflict and governance, COVID-19 and mental health, and agricultural risk and resilience.

Neumayer has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe (2020), Journal of European Public Policy
  • The pandemic predominantly hits poor neighbourhoods? SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 fatalities in German districts (2020), European Journal of Public Health
  • The strategy of protest against Covid-19 containment policies in Germany (2021), Social Science Quarterly
  • Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries (2023), Journal of Peace Research
  • COVID-19 does not stop at open borders: Spatial contagion among local authority districts during England's first wave (2020), Social Science & Medicine

Frequent coauthors in Neumayer's work include Thomas Plümper, Katharina Pfaff, Thomas Pluemper, Martha Finnemore, and Kenneth F. Scheve.

Neumayer's publications are often found in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, International Organization, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

Among their book publications, Neumayer has authored "Weak versus Strong Sustainability," published by Edward Elgar Publishing, scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Weak Versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring The Limits Of Two Opposing Paradigms

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Examining the Impact of Demographic Factors On Air Pollution

    Matthew Cole;Eric Neumayer

  • Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries

    Eric Neumayer;Laura Spess

  • Weak and strong sustainability in the SEEA: Concepts and measurement

    Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer

  • Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights

    Eric Neumayer

  • Do Democracies Exhibit Stronger International Environmental Commitment? A Cross-country Analysis

    Eric Neumayer

  • Recessions lower (some) mortality rates: evidence from Germany.

    Eric Neumayer

  • The human development index and sustainability — a constructive proposal

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Pattern of Aid Giving: The Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Impact of Political Violence on Tourism Dynamic Cross-National Estimation

    Eric Neumayer

  • In defence of historical accountability for greenhouse gas emissions

    Eric Neumayer

  • Bogus Refugees? The Determinants of Asylum Migration to Western Europe

    Eric Neumayer

  • Unequal access to foreign spaces: how states use visa restrictions to regulate mobility in a globalized world

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Determinants of Aid Allocation by Regional Multilateral Development Banks and United Nations Agencies

    Eric Neumayer

  • Do Human Rights Matter in Bilateral Aid Allocation? A Quantitative Analysis of 21 Donor Countries*

    Eric Neumayer

  • Handbook of Sustainable Development

    Giles Atkinson;Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer

  • Asylum Destination Choice: What Makes Some West European Countries More Attractive Than Others?

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Unequal Burden of War: The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy

    Thomas Plümper;Eric Neumayer

  • Model specification in the analysis of spatial dependence

    Thomas Plümper;Eric Neumayer

  • Overcoming barriers to campus greening: A survey among higher educational institutions in London, UK

    Marianne Dahle;Eric Neumayer

  • Are left-wing party strength and corporatism good for the environment? Evidence from panel analysis of air pollution in OECD countries

    Eric Neumayer

  • Weak Versus Strong Sustainability

    Eric Neumayer

  • Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control

    Per G. Fredriksson;Eric Neumayer;Richard Damania;Scott Gates

  • The environment, left-wing political orientation and ecological economics

    Eric Neumayer

  • Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970–1999

    Indra De Soysa;Eric Neumayer

  • Good Policy Can Lower Violent Crime: Evidence from a Cross-National Panel of Homicide Rates, 1980–97:

    Eric Neumayer

  • Geographies of educational mobilities: exploring the uneven flows of international students

    Richard Perkins;Eric Neumayer

  • Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Data on Robbery and Violent Theft

    Eric Neumayer

  • The Unequal Burden of War: The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy

    Thomas Pluemper;Thomas Pluemper;Eric Neumayer

  • Do Human Rights Matter in Bilateral Aid Allocation? A Quantitative Analysis of 21

    Eric Neumayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Plümper
Thomas Plümper Vienna University of Economics and Business
Indra de Soysa
Indra de Soysa Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Nunnenkamp
Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Axel Dreher
Axel Dreher Heidelberg University
Matthew A. Cole
Matthew A. Cole University of Birmingham
Per G. Fredriksson
Per G. Fredriksson University of Louisville
Stephen Gibbons
Stephen Gibbons London School of Economics and Political Science
Scott Gates
Scott Gates Peace Research Institute
Philip Keefer
Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank

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