2026 Erzo F. P. Luttmer: 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	32	3342	3046	1800	1590	105	13511

Overview

Erzo F. P. Luttmer is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their recent research contributions cover topics centered around fiscal policy, economic growth, and the intersection of fiscal policies with political economy and monetary policy impacts.

Luttmer's recent scholarly publications include:

Can Fiscal Externalities Be Internalized? (2022) - SSRN Electronic Journal
Behavioral Biases and Annuity Choice (2020) - AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Behavioral Biases and Annuity Choice (2020) - AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Behavioral Biases and Annuity Choice (2020) - AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Behavioral Biases and Annuity Choice (2020) - AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

The frequent co-authors working alongside Luttmer include:

Dmitry Taubinsky
Priscila de Oliveira
Priscila Oliveira

Publication venues where Luttmer has contributed multiple papers are:

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research spans key fields and subfields including:

Economics and Econometrics
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Main topics of research explored by Luttmer consist of:

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

The body of work by Erzo F. P. Luttmer reflects an engagement with both theoretical and empirical dimensions of economics, focusing on areas where fiscal decisions intersect with behavioral responses and policy efficacy.

Best Publications

Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

Erzo F. P. Luttmer

3301
Citations
Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution

Erzo F. P. Luttmer

1459
Citations
NETWORK EFFECTS AND WELFARE CULTURES

Marianne Bertrand;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Sendhil Mullainathan

1391
Citations
Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers

Rajkamal Iyer;Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Kelly Shue

772
Citations
Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Monica Singhal

702
Citations
WHAT GOOD IS WEALTH WITHOUT HEALTH? THE EFFECT OF HEALTH ON THE MARGINAL UTILITY OF CONSUMPTION

Amy Finkelstein;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Matthew J. Notowidigdo

650
Citations
Tax Morale

Unknown

592
Citations
Tax Morale

Unknown

519
Citations
The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control

Edward L. Glaeser;Erzo F. P. Luttmer

501
Citations
Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer

428
Citations
Insuring consumption and happiness through religious organizations

Rajeev Dehejia;Thomas DeLeire;Thomas DeLeire;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

355
Citations
Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

Amy N. Finkelstein;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Matthew J. Notowidigdo

333
Citations
Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Jeffrey B Liebman;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

320
Citations
The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Amy Finkelstein;Nathaniel Hendren;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

280
Citations
Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Rajkamal Iyer;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Kelly Shue

253
Citations
The cost of diabetes.

K. Gerard;C. Donaldson;A. K. Maynard

217
Citations
What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty

Christina M. Fong;Erzo F. P. Luttmer

215
Citations
Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

Jeffrey B. Liebman;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;David G. Seif

215
Citations
Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Sendhil Mullainathan;Sendhil Mullainathan

203
Citations
Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment

Christina M. Fong;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

193
Citations
Social support substitution and the earnings rebound: Evidence from a regression discontinuity in disability insurance reform

Lex Borghans;Anne C Gielen;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

174
Citations
Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

Rajkamal Iyer;Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Kelly Shue

141
Citations
The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security.

Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Andrew A. Samwick

125
Citations
Private Investment and Government Protection

Carolyn Kousky;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Richard Zeckhauser

113
Citations
The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think

Jeffrey Liebman;Erzo Luttmer

100
Citations
What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

Amy Finkelstein;Amy Finkelstein;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Matthew Notowidigdo

51
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivia S. Mitchell University of Pennsylvania

Arie Kapteyn University of Southern California

Jeffrey R. Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amy Finkelstein MIT

Thomas DeLeire Georgetown University

Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University

Rajeev H. Dehejia New York University

Hilary Williamson Hoynes University of California, Berkeley

Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University

Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago

External Links

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