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D-Index
39
Citations
18202
World Ranking
5467
National Ranking
2580

Overview

Jeffrey R. Kling is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with notable contributions in related subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's scholarly output covers various interconnected topics, including Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Housing Market and Economics, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Social Capital and Networks, as well as Russia and Soviet political economy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeffrey R. Kling include:

  • High performance work systems and firm performance, 2020, Development in Learning Organizations An International Journal
  • Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults, 2021, Housing Policy Debate
  • Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Non-Experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Front Matter, 2024, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • (080) ADVANCING PRECLINICAL MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION: A COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM FOR TEACHING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY TAKING TO MEDICAL STUDENTS THROUGH MULTIMODAL TEACHING TECHNIQUES, 2024, The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • David J. Harding
  • Lisa Sanbonmatsu
  • Greg J. Duncan
  • Lisa A. Gennetian
  • Lawrence F. Katz

Jeffrey R. Kling's work has appeared in multiple scholarly venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research interests. These venues include:

  • Development in Learning Organizations An International Journal
  • Housing Policy Debate
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine

The range of topics covered in their studies demonstrates engagement with complex social and economic dynamics at both micro and macro levels. Their publications contribute to discussions on neighborhood effects on economic outcomes, organizational behavior through high performance work systems, and broader regional economic and spatial analysis.

Best Publications

  • Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

    Jeffrey R Kling;Jeffrey B Liebman;Lawrence F Katz

  • Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

    Lawrence F. Katz;Jeffrey R. Kling;Jeffrey B. Liebman

  • Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Lisa Gennetian;Emma Adam

  • Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

    Jeffrey R. Kling;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Lisa A. Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz

  • The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration

    Bruce Western;Jeffrey R. Kling;David F. Weiman

  • Moving to Opportunity: Interim Impacts Evaluation

    Larry Orr;Judith Feins;Robin Jacob;Eric Beecroft

  • Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

    Jens Ludwig;Greg J Duncan;Lisa A Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

    Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Jeffrey R. Kling;Greg J. Duncan;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

    Jeffrey R. Kling

  • Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

    Jeffrey R. Brown;Jeffrey R. Kling;Sendhil Mullainathan;Marian Vaillant Wrobel

  • Comparison friction: experimental evidence from medicare drug plans.

    Jeffrey R. Kling;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir;Lee C. Vermeulen

  • What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

    Jens Ludwig;Jeffrey B. Liebman;Jeffrey R. Kling;Greg J. Duncan

  • Measuring Interjudge Sentencing Disparity: Before and After the Federal Sentencing Guidelines*

    James M. Anderson;Jeffrey R. Kling;Kate Stith

  • Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

    Jens Ludwig;Jeffrey R. Kling;Sendhil Mullainathan

  • Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling

    Jeffrey R Kling

  • High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance

    Jeffrey Kling

  • Policy and Choice: Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics

    Jeffrey Kling;William J. Congdon;Sendhil Mullainathan

  • Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: how girls fare better than boys.

    Susan Clampet-Lundquist;Kathryn Edin;Jeffrey R. Kling;Greg J. Duncan

  • Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

    Jeffrey R. Kling;Jeffrey B. Liebman;Lawrence F. Katz;Lisa Sanbonmatsu

  • Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market

    John H. Tyler;Jeffrey R. Kling

  • Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program

    Larry Orr;Judith D. Feins;Robin Jacob;Erik Beecroft

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lisa A. Gennetian Duke University
Kathryn Edin
Kathryn Edin Princeton University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir Princeton University
Kristin Turney
Kristin Turney University of California, Irvine
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University

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