2026 Guido W. Imbens: 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	101	97	86	76	66	332	106713

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2020 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Guido W. Imbens is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Mathematics, with notable contributions to Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The main topics covered in their work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Statistical Methods and Inference, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Economic Policies and Impacts, Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, and Income, Poverty, and Inequality.

Some of their recent papers include:

Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics, 2020, Journal of Economic Literature
Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty, 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Other notable publications associated with their research network, although not directly authored by them, are:

Sampling-Based versus Design-Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis, 2020, Econometrica
Design-based analysis in Difference-In-Differences settings with staggered adoption, 2021, Journal of Econometrics
Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors working with Guido W. Imbens include:

Susan Athey
Dmitry Arkhangelsky
Jann Spiess
Alberto Abadie
James M. McQueen

Their work has been published regularly in influential venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Econometrics
Econometrica
The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Guido W. Imbens has received several awards throughout their career, including:

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2020
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
Fellows of the Econometric Society, 2001
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

11423
Citations
Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens;Donald B. Rubin

8295
Citations
Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation

Guido W. Imbens;Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

6079
Citations
Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

Guido W. Imbens;Thomas Lemieux

6039
Citations
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Joshua D. Angrist;Joshua D. Angrist;Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

5885
Citations
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Guido W. Imbens;Joshua D. Angrist

4362
Citations
Nonparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects under Exogeneity: A Review

Guido W. Imbens

4213
Citations
Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects

Alberto Abadie;Guido W. Imbens

3679
Citations
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator

Guido Imbens;Karthik Kalyanaraman

3365
Citations
Efficient estimation of average treatment effects using the estimated propensity score

Keisuke Hirano;Guido W. Imbens;Geert Ridder

3044
Citations
Redefine statistical significance

Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

2992
Citations
Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences

Guido W. Imbens;Donald B. Rubin

2950
Citations
Why High-Order Polynomials Should Not Be Used in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Andrew Gelman;Guido Imbens

2196
Citations
Bias-Corrected Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects

Alberto Abadie;Guido W. Imbens

1648
Citations
Implementing matching estimators for average treatment effects in Stata

Alberto Abadie;David M. Drukker;Jane Leber Herr;Guido W. Imbens

1635
Citations
Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences Models

Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens

1592
Citations
Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects

Susan Athey;Guido Imbens

1581
Citations
On the Failure of the Bootstrap for Matching Estimators

Alberto Abadie;Guido W. Imbens

1484
Citations
The Propensity Score with Continuous Treatments

Keisuke Hirano;Guido W. Imbens

1450
Citations
Estimation of Causal Effects using Propensity Score Weighting: An Application to Data on Right Heart Catheterization

Keisuke Hirano;Guido W. Imbens

1439
Citations
Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation of Average Causal Effects in Models with Variable Treatment Intensity

Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

1407
Citations
Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Joshua Angrist;Guido Imbens;D.B. Rubin

1200
Citations
Evolution and Rationality Some Recent Game-Theoretic Results. Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Guido Imbens

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Athey Stanford University

Joshua D. Angrist MIT

V. Joseph Hotz Duke University

Geert Ridder University of Southern California

Gary Chamberlain Harvard University

Raj Chetty Harvard University

Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science

Thomas Lemieux University of British Columbia

David Cesarini New York University

Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison

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