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Ian Ayres publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Ayres sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 253 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Ian Ayres D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Ayres sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ian Ayres is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the social sciences and economics fields. Their work spans disciplines such as economics and econometrics, law, accounting, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

The primary research topics covered by Ayres include:

  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Ian Ayres are:

  • Languages and future-oriented economic behavior-Experimental evidence for causal effects, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Do Languages Generate Future-Oriented Economic Behavior?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • How to Make COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps work: Insights From Behavioral Economics, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Ayres include:

  • Quinn Curtis
  • Fredrick E. Vars
  • Zachary Shelley
  • Ji Young Kim
  • Tamar Kricheli-Katz

Ian Ayres has published in various academic venues with notable frequency including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Review of Law and Economics

In addition to journal articles, Ayres has authored books published by prominent presses:

  • Retirement Guardrails, Cambridge University Press, 2023
  • Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights, 2020

Awards received include being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate

    Ian Ayres;John Braithwaite

  • Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules

    Ian Ayres;Robert Gertner

  • Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage

    Ian Ayres;Sophie Raseman;Alice Shih

  • Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car

    Ian Ayres;Peter Siegelman

  • Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations

    Ian Ayres

  • Solomonic Bargaining: Dividing a Legal Entitlement To Facilitate Coasean Trade

    Ian Ayres;Eric Talley

  • Strategic Contractual Inefficiency and the Optimal Choice of Legal Rules

    Ian Ayres;Robert Gertner

  • Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack

    Ian Ayres;Steven D. Levitt

  • Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination

    Ian Ayres

  • The No-Reading Problem in Consumer Contract Law

    Ian Ayres;Alan Schwartz

  • A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting

    Ian Ayres;Joel Waldfogel

  • Legal Entitlements as Auctions: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Beyond

    Ian Ayres;Jack M. Balkin

  • Does Affirmative Action Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers

    Ian Ayres;Richard R.W. Brooks

  • Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis

    Ian Ayres;John J Donohue

  • Economic Rationales for Mediation

    Ian Ayres;Jennifer Gerarda Brown

  • Filling gap in incomplete contracts: an economic theory of default rules

    Ian Ayres;Robert Gertner

  • Deficit Reduction Through Diversity: How Affirmative Action at the FCC Increased Auction Competition

    Ian Ayres;Peter Cramton

  • DETERMINANTS OF CITATIONS TO ARTICLES IN ELITE LAW REVIEWS

    Ian Ayres;Fredrick E. Vars

  • Racial Equity in Renal Transplantation The Disparate Impact of HLA-Based Allocation

    Robert S. Gaston;Ian Ayres;Laura G. Dooley;Arnold G. Diethelm

  • To Insure Prejudice: Racial Disparities in Taxicab Tipping

    Ian Ayres;Frederick E Vars;Nasser Zakariya

  • Outcome Tests of Racial Disparities in Police Practices

    Ian Ayres

  • Tripartism: Regulatory Capture and Empowerment

    Ian Ayres;John Braithwaite

  • Further Evidence of Discrimination in New Car Negotiations and Estimates of Its Cause

    Ian Ayres

  • MUTUAL AND UNILATERAL MISTAKE IN CONTRACT LAW

    Eric B. Rasmusen;Ian Ayres

  • Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance

    Bruce A. Ackerman;Ian Ayres

  • Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights

    Ian Ayres;Jennifer Gerarda Brown

  • Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements

    Ian Ayres

  • Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

    John J. Donohue;Ian Ayres

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Yale University
Barry Nalebuff
Barry Nalebuff Yale University
John J. Donohue
John J. Donohue Stanford University
Peter Cramton
Peter Cramton University of Maryland, College Park
John Braithwaite
John Braithwaite Australian National University
Steven D. Levitt
Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago
Jeremy Bulow
Jeremy Bulow Stanford University
Christine Jolls
Christine Jolls Yale University
Paul Klemperer
Paul Klemperer University of Oxford
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University

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