2026 Glenn Ellison: 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	53	1155	1026	700	605	126	30754

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2000 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Glenn Ellison is affiliated with MIT in the United States and conducts research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including education, economics and econometrics, computer science applications, cognitive neuroscience, and modeling and simulation.

The main topics covered in their research include:

Teaching and Learning Programming
Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
School Choice and Performance
Higher Education Research Studies

Glenn Ellison has published papers in several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Economic Literature
American Economic Review

Their recent papers include:

"An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease" (2020), published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
"Inside Job or Deep Impact? Extramural Citations and the Influence of Economic Scholarship" (2020), published in Journal of Economic Literature
"The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools" (2021), published in American Economic Review
"Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Implications of heterogeneous SIR models for analyses of COVID-19" (2024), published in Review of Economic Design

Frequent co-authors include Sara Fisher Ellison, Sara L. Ellison, Harini Kannan, Christopher Avery, and William H. Bossert.

Glenn Ellison has received several awards including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2000, and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

Risk taking by mutual funds as a response to incentives

Judith A Chevalier;Glenn D Ellison

4207
Citations
Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach

Glenn Ellison;Edward Ludwig Glaeser

3189
Citations
The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?

Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser

2474
Citations
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser;William R. Kerr

2152
Citations
Learning, Local Interaction, and Coordination

Glenn Ellison

1622
Citations
Learning, local interaction, and coordination

Glenn Ellison

1622
Citations
Are Some Mutual Fund Managers Better Than Others? Cross-Sectional Patterns in Behavior and Performance

Judith Chevalier;Glenn Ellison

1483
Citations
Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process

Guy Dumais;Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser

1397
Citations
Career Concerns of Mutual Fund Managers

Judith Chevalier;Glenn Ellison

1394
Citations
The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?

Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser

1352
Citations
Word-of-Mouth Communication and Social Learning

Glenn Ellison;Drew Fudenberg

1218
Citations
SEARCH, OBFUSCATION, AND PRICE ELASTICITIES ON THE INTERNET

Glenn Ellison;Sara Fisher Ellison

1207
Citations
Rules of Thumb for Social Learning

Glenn Ellison;Drew Fudenberg

1031
Citations
Risk Taking by Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives

Judith A. Chevalier;Judith A. Chevalier;Glenn Ellison;Glenn Ellison

968
Citations
Career Concerns of Mutual Fund Managers

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862
Citations
Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach

Glenn Ellison;Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser

817
Citations
Position Auctions with Consumer Search

Susan Athey;Glenn Ellison

780
Citations
Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma with Anonymous Random Matching

Glenn Ellison

703
Citations
Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma with Anonymous Random Matching

Glenn Ellison

702
Citations
Basins of Attraction, Long-Run Stochastic Stability, and the Speed of Step-by-Step Evolution

Glenn Ellison

625
Citations
A Model of Add-On Pricing

Glenn Ellison

620
Citations
The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process

Glenn Ellison

561
Citations
A search cost model of obfuscation

Glenn Ellison;Alexander Greenberg Wolitzky

429
Citations
Theories of Cartel Stability and the Joint Executive Committee

Glenn Ellison

371
Citations
Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing: A q‐r Theory

Glenn Ellison

334
Citations
Are some mutual fund managers better than others

Judith A. Chevalier;Glenn Ellison

315
Citations
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Glenn Ellison;Glenn Ellison;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;William R. Kerr

234
Citations
Position Auctions with Consumer Search

Susan Athey;Glenn Ellison;Glenn Ellison

212
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Drew Fudenberg MIT

Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University

Susan Athey Stanford University

William R. Kerr Harvard University

Parag A. Pathak MIT

Joshua D. Angrist MIT

Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania

Costas Meghir Yale University

Eddie Dekel Northwestern University

Timothy H. Hannan Federal Reserve System

External Links

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