2026 Gary Burtless: 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	44	1862	1676	1094	960	167	8332

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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

715
Citations
Does money matter? : the effect of school resources on student achievement and adult success

Gary T. Burtless

580
Citations
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research

Gary Burtless

439
Citations
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys

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

427
Citations
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality

Gary Burtless

362
Citations
Can Families Smooth Variable Earnings

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

311
Citations
Demographic Change, Rising Earnings Inequality, and the Distribution of Personal Well-Being, 1959 1989*

Lynn A. Karoly;Gary T. Burtless

291
Citations
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement

Gary Burtless

248
Citations
The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work

Gary Burtless;Robert A. Moffitt

223
Citations
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment:

Gary Burtless

222
Citations
Can America Afford to Grow Old?: Paying for Social Security

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

219
Citations
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution

Gary Burtless

212
Citations
Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Daniel Friedlander;Gary T. Burtless

209
Citations
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans

Gary T. Burtless;Joseph F. Quinn

175
Citations
Growth with equity

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

171
Citations
Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy

Gary Burtless;Larry L. Orr

147
Citations
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence

Gary Burtless

125
Citations
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving

Barry Bosworth;Gary Burtless

123
Citations
Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade

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

114
Citations
Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs

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

34
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Bosworth Brookings Institution

Jerry A. Hausman MIT

Robert E. Litan Brookings Institution

Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison

Henry J. Aaron Brookings Institution

Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University

Alicia Haydock Munnell Boston College

Robert Haveman University of Wisconsin–Madison

Martin Neil Baily Brookings Institution

Janet C. Gornick City University of New York

External Links

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