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Jacob L. Vigdor publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jacob L. Vigdor sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jacob L. Vigdor D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jacob L. Vigdor sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

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

  • The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

    David Cutler;Jacob Vigdor;Edward Glaeser

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

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

  • 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

  • High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals

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

  • Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers

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

  • 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

  • SCALING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: HOME COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

    Jacob L Vigdor;Helen F Ladd

  • 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

  • Racial Segregation in the 2000 Census: Promising News

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

  • How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement

    Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

  • The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

    Jacob Vigdor

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

    Jacob L. Vigdor

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

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

  • Does Gentrification Harm the Poor

    Jacob L. Vigdor

  • The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8

    Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Jacob Vigdor;Edward Glaeser;David Cutler

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles T. Clotfelter
Charles T. Clotfelter Duke University
Helen F. Ladd
Helen F. Ladd Duke University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
David M. Cutler
David M. Cutler Harvard University
Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University
Robert J. MacCoun
Robert J. MacCoun Stanford University
Jens Ludwig
Jens Ludwig University of Chicago
Peter Arcidiacono
Peter Arcidiacono Duke University
Gary Solon
Gary Solon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Adam Drewnowski
Adam Drewnowski University of Washington

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