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D-Index
44
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8332
World Ranking
1862
National Ranking
1094

Gary Burtless 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 Gary Burtless sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 167 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gary Burtless 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 Gary Burtless sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gary Burtless is affiliated with the Brookings Institution in the United States. Their research spans several topics related to economics, public policy, and social science, with a particular emphasis on labor dynamics, pension systems, and fiscal growth.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

The subfields covered by their publications are:

  • Gender Studies
  • Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics

Gary Burtless has coauthored work with Isabel V. Sawhill.

Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Intereconomics
  • Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored by Gary Burtless include:

  • Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign, 2020, Intereconomics
  • Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volumes 1A and 1B By John Piggott and Alan Woodland (eds.), North-Holland, 2016 ISBN 978-0-444-53842-0 (Vol. 1A) and 978-0-444-53840-6 (Vol. 1B), 1146 pages., 2020, Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
  • Improving the Fortunes of America's Working Class, 2021, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Inequality and the Relative Well-Being of America's Seniors, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment

    Gary T. Burtless;Jerry A. Hausman

  • Does money matter? : the effect of school resources on student achievement and adult success

    Gary T. Burtless

  • The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research

    Gary Burtless

  • The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys

    Barry Bosworth;Gary Burtless;John Sabelhaus;James M. Poterba

  • International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality

    Gary Burtless

  • Can Families Smooth Variable Earnings

    Susan Dynarski;Jonathan Gruber;Robert A. Moffitt;Gary Burtless

  • Demographic Change, Rising Earnings Inequality, and the Distribution of Personal Well-Being, 1959 1989*

    Lynn A. Karoly;Gary T. Burtless

  • Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement

    Gary Burtless

  • The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work

    Gary Burtless;Robert A. Moffitt

  • Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment:

    Gary Burtless

  • Can America Afford to Grow Old?: Paying for Social Security

    John C. Hambor;Henry J. Aaron;Barry P. Bosworth;Gary Burtless

  • Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution

    Gary Burtless

  • Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs

    Daniel Friedlander;Gary T. Burtless

  • Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans

    Gary T. Burtless;Joseph F. Quinn

  • Growth with equity

    Gary S. Fields;Martin Neil Baily;Gary Burtless;Robert E. Litan

  • Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy

    Gary Burtless;Larry L. Orr

  • The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence

    Gary Burtless

  • Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving

    Barry Bosworth;Gary Burtless

  • Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade

    Erik Izraelewicz;Gary Burtless;Robert Z. Lawrence;Robert E. Litan

  • Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs

    William G. Gale;Janet Rothenberg Pack;Gary T. Burtless

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Bosworth
Barry Bosworth Brookings Institution
Robert E. Litan
Robert E. Litan Brookings Institution
Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henry J. Aaron
Henry J. Aaron Brookings Institution
Robert A. Moffitt
Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University
Robert Haveman
Robert Haveman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Martin Neil Baily
Martin Neil Baily Brookings Institution
Janet C. Gornick
Janet C. Gornick City University of New York

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