2026 James Andreoni: 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	64	615	555	393	347	196	43426

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Economics and Finance

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Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James Andreoni is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields within social sciences and economics, with a focus on experimental behavioral economics, taxation, compliance, and decision-making processes.

The main fields of study for Andreoni's research include:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their subfields of specialization cover:

Economics and Econometrics
Safety Research
Sociology and Political Science
General Decision Sciences
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Andreoni's research topics frequently address:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Taxation and Compliance Studies
Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Recent publications by Andreoni include:

"Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment" (2021, Nature Communications)
"Time inconsistent charitable giving" (2021, Journal of Public Economics)
"Calculating Daf Payout and What We Learn When We Do it Correctly" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan" (2022, Journal of the European Economic Association)

They also co-authored research with colleagues on related interdisciplinary subjects, collaborating primarily with:

Nikos Nikiforakis
B. Douglas Bernheim
Tingyan Jia
Jan Stoop
Marta Serra-García

Frequent venues for Andreoni's publications include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Nature Communications
Journal of Public Economics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of the European Economic Association

Andreoni has been recognized with awards such as:

Fellows of the Econometric Society, awarded in 2011
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, awarded in 1992

Best Publications

IMPURE ALTRUISM AND DONATIONS TO PUBLIC GOODS: A THEORY OF WARM-GLOW GIVING*

James Andreoni

7545
Citations
Giving with Impure Altruism: Applications to Charity and Ricardian Equivalence

James Andreoni

4310
Citations
Giving According to GARP: An Experimental Test of the Consistency of Preferences for Altruism

James Andreoni;John Miller

2798
Citations
Which is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism

James Andreoni;Lise Vesterlund

2000
Citations
Cooperation in Public-Goods Experiments: Kindness or Confusion?

James Andreoni

1800
Citations
Why free ride?: Strategies and learning in public goods experiments

James Andreoni

1705
Citations
Cooperation in Public-Goods Experiments: Kindness or Confusion?

James Andreoni

1523
Citations
The simple analytics of the environmental Kuznets curve

James Andreoni;Arik Levinson

1444
Citations
Social Image and the 50–50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects

James Andreoni;B. Douglas Bernheim

1393
Citations
Warm-Glow versus Cold-Prickle: The Effects of Positive and Negative Framing on Cooperation in Experiments

James Andreoni

1251
Citations
Privately provided public goods in a large economy: The limits of altruism

James Andreoni

1220
Citations
Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma: Experimental Evidence

James Andreoni;John H. Miller

1128
Citations
Public goods experiments without confidentiality: a glimpse into fund-raising

James Andreoni;Ragan Petrie

983
Citations
Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets

James Andreoni;Charles Sprenger

924
Citations
The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation

James Andreoni;William Harbaugh;Lise Vesterlund

797
Citations
Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising?

James Andreoni;A. Abigail Payne

675
Citations
An Experimental Test Of The Public Goods Crowding-Out Hypothesis

James Andreoni

667
Citations
Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences

James Andreoni;Charles Sprenger

653
Citations
Avoiding the Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

James Andreoni;Justin M. Rao;Hannah Trachtman

644
Citations
Toward a Theory of Charitable Fund‐Raising

James Andreoni

617
Citations
Warm-Glow Versus Cold-Prickle: The Effects of Positive and Negative Farming on Cooperation in Experiments

James Andreoni

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. List University of Chicago

Lise Vesterlund University of Pittsburgh

Larry Samuelson Yale University

B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University

Arik Levinson Georgetown University

Yeon-Koo Che Columbia University

Rachel Croson University of Minnesota

Theodore C. Bergstrom University of California, Santa Barbara

Hal R. Varian Google (United States)

Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

External Links

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