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James P. Ziliak 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 James P. Ziliak sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 155 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James P. Ziliak 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 James P. Ziliak sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James P. Ziliak is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines with a strong emphasis on economics and health-related social sciences. The scientist's research has been published primarily in areas intersecting economics, health, and social policy.

Their research is concentrated within the fields of:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Health Professions

Further, their subfields of study include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Accounting
  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key research topics covered by James P. Ziliak encompass:

  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Food Hardship during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession (2020) in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Income inequality in the United States, 1975-2022 (2024) in Fiscal Studies
  • COVID-19 and the US Safety Net (2020) in Fiscal Studies
  • Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence (2021) in Journal of Political Economy
  • Income Inequality, Race, and the EITC (2022) in National Tax Journal

James P. Ziliak frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Mónica Costa Dias (12 publications)
  • Robert Moffitt (9 publications)
  • Charles Hokayem (7 publications)
  • Christopher R. Bollinger (6 publications)
  • James Cloyne (5 publications)

The most common venues in which this scientist publishes are:

  • Fiscal Studies (10 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (4 publications)
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (3 publications)
  • National Tax Journal (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Food Insecurity And Health Outcomes

    Craig Gundersen;James P. Ziliak

  • Efficient Estimation With Panel Data When Instruments Are Predetermined: An Empirical Comparison of Moment-Condition Estimators

    James P. Ziliak

  • Accounting for the decline in AFDC caseloads: Welfare reform or the economy?

    James P. Ziliak;David N. Figlio;Elizabeth E. Davis;Laura S. Connolly

  • Food Insecurity Research in the United States: Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go

    Craig Gundersen;James P Ziliak

  • The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data

    Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi;Christopher Woock;James P. Ziliak

  • Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline in AFDC Caseloads

    David N. Figlio;James Patrick Ziliak

  • The Rural-Urban Interface: New Patterns of Spatial Interdependence and Inequality in America:

    Daniel T. Lichter;James P. Ziliak

  • Estimating Life Cycle Labor Supply Tax Effects

    James P. Ziliak;Thomas J. Kniesner

  • Poverty and macroeconomic performance across space, race, and family structure.

    Craig Gundersen;James Patrick Ziliak

  • Childhood Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Trends, Causes, and Policy Options

    Craig Gundersen;James P. Ziliak

  • Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession

    John M. McDowell;Larry D. Singell;James P. Ziliak

  • Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: New evidence from panel data quantile regressions

    Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi;James P. Ziliak

  • Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

    Christopher R. Bollinger;Barry T. Hirsch;Charles M. Hokayem;James P. Ziliak

  • Earnings volatility in America: Evidence from matched CPS☆

    James P. Ziliak;Bradley Hardy;Christopher Bollinger

  • Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession

    John M. McDowell;Larry D. Singell;James P. Ziliak

  • Performance-based wages in tax collection: The Brazilian tax collection reform and its effects

    Charles M. Kahn;Emilson C. D. Silva;James P. Ziliak

  • Food Stamp Caseloads over the Business Cycle

    James P. Ziliak;Craig Gundersen;David N. Figlio

  • Do Welfare Asset Limits Affect Household Saving? Evidence from Welfare Reform

    Erik Hurst;James P. Ziliak

  • Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization

    Thomas J. Kniesner;James P. Ziliak

  • The importance of sample attrition in life cycle labor supply estimation

    Thomas J Kniesner;James P Ziliak

  • COVID-19 and the Economy

    James Cloyne;Monica Costa Dias;Matthias Parey;James P. Ziliak

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Kniesner
Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University
Craig Gundersen
Craig Gundersen Baylor University
W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University
Barry T. Hirsch
Barry T. Hirsch Georgia State University
Erik Hurst
Erik Hurst University of Chicago
Kenneth R. Troske
Kenneth R. Troske University of Kentucky
David N. Figlio
David N. Figlio University of Rochester
Robert A. Moffitt
Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University
Dean Jolliffe
Dean Jolliffe World Bank
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London

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