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2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
21466
World Ranking
636
National Ranking
73

Francisco H. G. Ferreira publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco H. G. Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 183 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Francisco H. G. Ferreira D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco H. G. Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a more focused contribution in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation, and Ocean Engineering.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics including:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Economic Theory and Policy

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Francisco H. G. Ferreira include:

  • "Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic" (2021) published in World Development
  • "Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995-2012" (2021) published in The World Bank Economic Review
  • "Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021) published in LSE Public Policy Review
  • "Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America" (2023) published in Working Paper Series
  • "Not all inequalities are alike" (2022) published in Nature

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Ferreira are:

  • Benoît Decerf
  • Olivier Sterck
  • Paolo Brunori
  • D. Mahler
  • Daniel Gerszon Mahler

Francisco H. G. Ferreira has published regularly in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Oxford Open Economics
  • Working Paper Series
  • London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  • OTC Brasil

The scientist has contributed to several book publications, primarily with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including the titles "Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic" (2020) and "The Analysis of Inequality in the Bretton Woods Institutions" (2022). Another notable book is "Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021), published by the World Bank policy research working paper series.

Best Publications

  • Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty

    Ariel Fiszbein;Norbert Schady;Francisco H.G. Ferreira;Margaret Grosh

  • Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History?

    David De Ferranti;Guillermo E. Perry;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Michael Walton

  • The measurement of inequality of opportunity: theory and an application to Latin America

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Jeremie Gignoux

  • World development report 2006 : equity and development

    Berk Ozler;Tamar Manuelyan Atinc;Abhijit Banerjee;Francisco H.G. Ferreira

  • Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil

    François Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Marta Menéndez

  • Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Ricardo Paes de Barros;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Jose R. Molinas Vega;Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi

  • Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

    Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva;Maria Ana Lugo;Renos Vakis;Francisco H. G. Ferreira

  • The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: 1981-2004

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Phillippe G. Leite;Julie A. Litchfield

  • Conditional cash transfers, schooling, and child labor : micro-simulating Brazil's bolsa escola program

    Francois Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Phillippe G. Leite

  • Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Norbert Schady

  • The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Jérémie Gignoux

  • The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Francois Bourguignon;Nora Lusting

  • A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Shaohua Chen;Andrew L. Dabalen;Yuri M. Dikhanov

  • Qualidade e eqüidade na educação fundamental brasileira

    Ângela Albernaz;Francisco Ferreira;Creso Franco

  • Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons

    Paolo Brunori Brunori;Francisco H. G. Ferreira Ferreira;Vito Peragine Peragine

  • Conditional, unconditional and everything in between: a systematic review of the effects of cash transfer programmes on schooling outcomes

    Sarah Baird;Francisco H.G. Ferreira;Berk Özler;Michael Woolcock

  • Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda

    Francois Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Michael Walton

  • The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America

    François Bourguignon;Francisco Ferreira;Nora Lustig

  • Multidimensional poverty analysis: Looking for a middle ground

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Maria Ana Lugo

  • Qualidade e equidade no ensino fundamental brasileiro

    Ângela Albernaz;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Creso Franco

  • Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor

    Francois Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Phillippe G. Leite

Frequent Co-Authors

François Bourguignon
François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics
Peter Lanjouw
Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Norbert Schady
Norbert Schady World Bank
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Julián Messina
Julián Messina University of Alicante
Nora Lustig
Nora Lustig Tulane University
Dean Jolliffe
Dean Jolliffe World Bank
Janet C. Gornick
Janet C. Gornick City University of New York
John Micklewright
John Micklewright University College London

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