2026 Jacob L. Vigdor: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3055	2801	1482	1338	120	16905

Overview

Jacob L. Vigdor is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with particular focus on Economics and Econometrics and Education as key subfields.

Their recent scholarly contributions include a series of papers published in notable academic venues. These are:

Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle, 2022, American Economic Journal Economic Policy
When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information, 2021, Journal of Human Capital
Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers, 2024, Journal of Public Economics
Opening the Black Box: Behavioral Responses of Teachers and Principals to Pay-for-Performance Incentive Programs, 2023, Journal of Human Capital
Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jacob L. Vigdor include:

Ekaterina Jardim
Mark C. Long
Robert D. Plotnick
Emma van Inwegen
Hilary Wething

Their work has been published in several recurring academic journals, notably:

Journal of Human Capital
American Economic Journal Economic Policy
Journal of Public Economics
SSRN Electronic Journal

Major topics addressed in their research encompass:

Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
School Choice and Performance
Employment and Welfare Studies
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

Best Publications

Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

1471
Citations
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser;Jacob L. Vigdor

1351
Citations
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

David Cutler;Jacob Vigdor;Edward Glaeser

1324
Citations
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement: Longitudinal Analysis with Student Fixed Effects.

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

1286
Citations
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

1228
Citations
High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor;Justin Wheeler

853
Citations
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob Vigdor

832
Citations
Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina

Charles Clotfelter;Charles Clotfelter;Elizabeth Glennie;Helen Ladd;Jacob Vigdor;Jacob Vigdor

599
Citations
SCALING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: HOME COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Jacob L Vigdor;Helen F Ladd

474
Citations
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low-performing schools to attract and retain high-quality teachers?

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor;Roger Aliaga Diaz

429
Citations
Racial Segregation in the 2000 Census: Promising News

Edward L. Glaeser;Jacob L. Vigdor;Terry Sanford

403
Citations
How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement

Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

388
Citations
The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Jacob Vigdor

372
Citations
COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND COLLECTIVE ACTION: ANALYZING INITIAL MAIL RESPONSE TO THE 2000 CENSUS

Jacob L. Vigdor

369
Citations
When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation In the United States

David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser;Jacob L. Vigdor

367
Citations
Does Gentrification Harm the Poor

Jacob L. Vigdor

361
Citations
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8

Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

319
Citations
Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

276
Citations
Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser;Jacob L. Vigdor

262
Citations
Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle

Ekaterina Jardim;Mark C Long;Robert Plotnick;Emma van Inwegen

245
Citations
When are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;David M. Cutler;David M. Cutler;Jacob L. Vigdor

53
Citations
High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals. Sanford Working Paper Series. SAN06-08.

Charles Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob Vigdor;Justin Wheeler

18
Citations
When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation In the United States

Jacob Vigdor;Edward Glaeser;David Cutler

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Arcidiacono Duke University

External Links

Personal website of Jacob L. Vigdor

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