2026 Frédéric Docquier: 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	59	854	769	1	1	315	23021

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Frédéric Docquier is affiliated with the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) in Luxembourg. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in economics, econometrics, and finance.

The scholar's work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, modeling and simulation, demography, and political science and international relations.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

Migration and labor dynamics
Climate change, adaptation, and migration
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies
Regional economics and spatial analysis
Fiscal policy and economic growth
Economic growth and productivity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frédéric Docquier are:

Pierre Schaus
Hillel Rapoport
Joël Machado
Michel Beine
Michel Bierlaire

Publication venues where this researcher frequently publishes include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Demographic Economics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of the European Economic Association

Selected recent papers are:

"Global migration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the unstoppable force of demography," 2021, Review of World Economics
"The Academic Market and The Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000-1800)," 2023, Journal of the European Economic Association
"Cross-border mobility responses to COVID-19 in Europe: new evidence from facebook data," 2022, Globalization and Health
"Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis," 2021, Journal of Economic Geography
"The geography of climate migration," 2021, Journal of Demographic Economics

Best Publications

Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

1969
Citations
Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport

1967
Citations
The Economics of Migrants' Remittances

Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport;Frédéric Docquier;Frédéric Docquier

1723
Citations
Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development

Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

1546
Citations
International migration by educational attainment, 1990-2000

Frédéric Docquier;Addeslam Marfouk

1319
Citations
Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

1161
Citations
Brain drain in developing countries

Frédéric Docquier;Olivier Lohest;Abdeslam Marfouk

688
Citations
Brain Drain in Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier;Olivier Lohest;Abdeslam Marfouk

687
Citations
Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport

644
Citations
Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport

508
Citations
Measuring the international mobility of skilled workers (1990-2000) : release 1.0

Frédéric Docquier;Addeslam Marfouk

498
Citations
A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration

Frédéric Docquier;Lindsay B.L. Lowell;Abdeslam Marfouk

469
Citations
Diasporas

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435
Citations
Emigration and democracy

Frédéric Docquier;Elisabetta Lodigiani;Hillel Rapoport;Maurice Schiff

334
Citations
The Cross‐country Determinants of Potential and Actual Migration

Frédéric Docquier;Giovanni Peri;Ilse Ruyssen

304
Citations
Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

297
Citations
A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of non-OECD Destinations

Erhan Artuc;Frederic Docquier;Caglar Ozden;Christopher Parsons

294
Citations
Brain Drain and Brain Gain: The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled Migrants

Tito Boeri;Herbert Brücker;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

285
Citations
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Maurice Schiff

251
Citations
Skilled Migration and Business Networks

Frédéric Docquier;Frédéric Docquier;Elisabetta Lodigiani;Elisabetta Lodigiani

237
Citations
A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Cecily Oden Defoort

200
Citations
Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Frédéric Docquier

196
Citations
Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine;Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport

191
Citations
Remittances, Migrants’Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Frédéric Docquier;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport;Sara Salomone;Sara Salomone

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics

Michel Beine University of Luxembourg

Caglar Ozden World Bank

Maurice Schiff Institute of Labor Economics

Giovanni Peri University of California, Davis

Christopher A. Parsons University of Western Australia

Pierre Pestieau University of Liège

Aysit Tansel Middle East Technical University

Jaime de Melo University of Geneva

Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles

External Links

Wikipedia of Frédéric Docquier Personal website of Frédéric Docquier Google Scholar page

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