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Economics and Finance

D-Index
32
Citations
5048
World Ranking
3431
National Ranking
1849

Political Science

D-Index
32
Citations
4988
World Ranking
1004
National Ranking
516

Ira N. Gang publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira N. Gang sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 166 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Ira N. Gang D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ira N. Gang sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 53rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ira N. Gang is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. Within these fields, the subfields of Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Accounting are notable areas of focus. Additional subfields include Safety Research and Demography.

The main topics addressed in Gang's work encompass Taxation and Compliance Studies, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Gang has contributed to several publication venues, with frequent appearances in the SSRN Electronic Journal and the Working Paper Series. Other notable venues include The Journal of Development Studies, Economics, and the IZA Journal of Development and Migration.

Recent papers authored by Gang include:

  • "Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India's Informal Sector Firms," 2022, The Journal of Development Studies
  • "The gender productivity gap: Evidence from the Indian informal sector," 2021, Working Paper Series

Frequent coauthors working with Gang consist of:

  • Gil S. Epstein
  • Kunal Sen
  • Rajesh Raj Natarajan
  • Ilhom Abdulloev
  • Stefan Sjögren

Gang's contributions also include book publications, notably a title published under the Working Paper Series: "Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

    Ira N. Gang;Klaus F. Zimmermann

  • Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Returns to returning

    Catherine Y. Co;Ira N. Gang;Myeong-Su Yun

  • Foreign aid, taxes, and public investment

    Ira N. Gang;Haider Ali Khan

  • The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

    Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

    Ira N. Gang;Kunal Sen;Myeong-Su Yun

  • Poverty in rural India: Caste and tribe

    Ira N. Gang;Kunal Sen;Myeong Su Yun

  • Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

    Francisco Rivera-Batiz;Myeong-Su Yun;Ira Gang

  • Corruption, Tax Evasion and the Laffer Curve

    Amal Sanyal;Ira N. Gang;Omkar Goswami

  • Labor market effects of immigration in the United States and Europe: substitution vs. complementarity.

    Ira N. Gang;Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz

  • Mobility where mobility is illegal: internal migration and city growth in the Soviet Union.

    Ira N. Gang;Robert C. Stuart

  • The Influence of Stocks and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices

    Thomas Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Economic strain, ethnic concentration and attitudes towards foreigners in the European Union

    Ira N. Gang;Ira N. Gang;Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz;Myeong-Su Yun;Myeong-Su Yun

  • Good governance and good aid allocation

    Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

    Sumon Kumar Bhaumik;Ira N. Gang;Myeong-Su Yun

  • Unemployment and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in Germany

    Ira N. Gang;Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz

  • The Less Developed Economy

    Ira Gang;Kaushik Basu

  • Self-selection and wages during volatile transition

    Ralitza Dimova;Ira N. Gang

  • What are Migration Networks

    Thomas K. Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Some determinants of foreign aid to India, 1960–1985

    Ira N. Gang;Haider Ali Khan

  • Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

    Ira N. Gang;Kunal Sen;Myeong Su Yun

  • Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants

    Thomas Bauer;Gil S. Epstein;Ira N. Gang

  • Economic Strain, Education and Attitudes towards Foreigners in the European Union

    Ira N. Gang;Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz;Myeng-Su Yun

  • Is Child Like Parent

    Ira N. Gang;Klaus F. Zimmermann

  • New directions or not: USAID in Latin America.

    Ira N. Gang;James A. Lehman

  • Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians & Albanians in Kosovo

    Sumon K. Bhaumik;Sumon K. Bhaumik;Ira N. Gang;Ira N. Gang;Myeong-Su Yun;Myeong-Su Yun

  • Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

    Ira N. Gang;Thomas Bauer

  • Original Article Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

    Ilhom Abdulloev;Ira N. Gang;Myeong-Su Yun

Frequent Co-Authors

Gil S. Epstein
Gil S. Epstein Bar-Ilan University
Thomas K. Bauer
Thomas K. Bauer Ruhr University Bochum
Kunal Sen
Kunal Sen University of Manchester
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University
David Feldman
David Feldman Stanford University

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