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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
105
Citations
45109
World Ranking
76
National Ranking
62

Jere R. Behrman publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jere R. Behrman sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 537 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Jere R. Behrman D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jere R. Behrman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 105 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 1980 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jere R. Behrman is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and specializes in social sciences with a focus on intersections between education, health, and child development. Their research spans several significant subfields including safety research, education, nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and sociology and political science.

The scientist has authored numerous papers published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Lancet, Demography, Economics of Education Review, and Child Development.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Jere R. Behrman include:

  • Global estimates of the implications of COVID-19-related preprimary school closures for children's instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing, 2021, Child Development
  • Hospital nurse staffing and patient outcomes in Chile: a multilevel cross-sectional study, 2021, The Lancet Global Health
  • Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital, 2022, The Lancet
  • Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries, 2023, Nature

Jere R. Behrman's research has engaged with several main topics within the child and family welfare domain:

  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Collaborative research features regularly in their career. Frequent co-authors include Linda Richter, Chunling Lu, Hans-Peter Kohler, Alan Stein, and Emily Hannum.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book publications. Notable works include:

  • Parental Investments and Children's Human Capital in Low-to-Middle-Income Countries, published by Cambridge University Press, 2022
  • Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology, published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, 2024

Jere R. Behrman's career has been recognized by fellowships such as the Fellows of the Econometric Society awarded in 1980 and the Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

    Patrice L Engle;Maureen M Black;Jere R Behrman;Meena Cabral de Mello

  • Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

    Patrice L. Engle;Lia C. H. Fernald;Harold Alderman;Jere Behrman

  • Returns to Birthweight

    Jere R. Behrman;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults

    John Hoddinott;John A Maluccio;Jere R Behrman;Rafael Flores

  • Health and nutrition

    Jere Behrman;Anil Deolalikar

  • Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?

    Jere R. Behrman;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

    Linda M Richter;Bernadette Daelmans;Joan Lombardi;Jody Heymann

  • Intrahousehold distribution and the family

    Jere R. Behrman

  • How Financial Literacy Affects Household Wealth Accumulation

    Jere R. Behrman;Olivia S. Mitchell;Cindy K. Soo;David Bravo

  • The impact of improving nutrition during early childhood on education among Guatemalan adults.

    John A. Maluccio;John Hoddinott;Jere R. Behrman;Reynaldo Martorell

  • Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny

    Jere R. Behrman;Robert A. Pollak;Paul Taubman

  • The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction

    John Hoddinott;Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Lawrence Haddad

  • Will Developing Country Nutrition Improve with Income? A Case Study for Rural South India

    Jere R. Behrman;Anil B. Deolalikar

  • Progressing through PROGRESA: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Experiment in Rural Mexico

    Jere R. Behrman;Piyali Sengupta;Petra Todd

  • INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF NUTRIENTS IN RURAL INDIA: ARE BOYS FAVORED? DO PARENTS EXHIBIT INEQUALITY AVERSION?

    Jere R. Behrman

  • Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment

    Jere R. Behrman;Mark R. Rosenzweig;Paul Taubman

  • Child Health and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Victor Lavy;Rekha Menon

  • Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

    John Hoddinott;Jere R Behrman;John A Maluccio;Paul Melgar

  • Supply response in underdeveloped agriculture; a case study of four major annual crops in Thailand, 1937-1963.

    Jere R. Behrman

  • Attrition in longitudinal household survey data - some tests for three developing-country samples

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Hans-Peter Kohler;John A. Maluccio

  • Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth

    Jere R. Behrman;Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenweig;Prem Vashishtha

  • Handbook of development economics

    Hollis Burnley Chenery;T. N. Srinivasan;Jere R. Behrman;T. Paul Schultz

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Kohler
Hans-Peter Kohler University of Pennsylvania
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
Petra E. Todd
Petra E. Todd University of Pennsylvania
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College
Paul Taubman
Paul Taubman University of Pennsylvania
Reynaldo Martorell
Reynaldo Martorell Emory University
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Mark R. Rosenzweig Yale University
Lia C. H. Fernald
Lia C. H. Fernald University of California, Berkeley
Susan Cotts Watkins
Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles

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