2026 Kerwin Kofi Charles: 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	42	2032	1834	1182	1041	94	10569

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Economics and Finance

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1834

1182

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10569

Overview

Kerwin Kofi Charles is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research profile concentrating primarily in social sciences with a substantial focus on economics and econometrics as well as sociology and political science. Their work spans a range of subfields including general health professions, gender studies, and political science and international relations.

The researcher's academic output includes multiple recent papers published in well-known journals. Notable publications include:

"Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men" (2020) in Journal of Political Economy
"Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws" (2020) in Journal of Political Economy
"Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality" (2022) in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
"Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining" (2021) in Journal of Labor Economics
"The Effects of Sexism on American Women" (2022) in The Journal of Human Resources

Frequent co-authors of the researcher include:

Daniel I. Rees
D. Mark Anderson
Krzysztof Karbownik
Camila Steffens
Jonathan Guryan

The researcher's contributions have appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Political Economy
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
The Journal of Human Resources
Journal of Public Economics

Research topics addressed by this individual cover a spectrum of social science and policy-related issues. Main research topics include:

Historical Economic and Social Studies
Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation
Healthcare Policy and Management
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Race, History, and American Society
Social Policy and Reform Studies

Kerwin Kofi Charles's work integrates perspectives from economics, sociology, health professions, and gender studies to explore labor markets, public health, policy impacts, and social inequalities across different population groups. The combination of fields and topics suggests a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex societal issues within a framework of empirical research and policy analysis.

Best Publications

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst;Nikolai Roussanov

976
Citations
The Correlation of Wealth Across Generations

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst

612
Citations
Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Jonathan Guryan

575
Citations
Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Melvin Stephens

564
Citations
Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap: A Nonparametric Approach

Robert Barsky;John Bound;Kerwin Kofi Charles;Joseph P. Lupton

546
Citations
Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

Kerwin Kofi Charles

522
Citations
Taste-based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots

Jonathan Guryan;Kerwin Kofi Charles

423
Citations
Conspicuous Consumption and Race

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst;Nikolai Roussanov

415
Citations
The Transition to Home Ownership and the Black-White Wealth Gap

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst

373
Citations
Can family caregiving substitute for nursing home care

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Purvi Sevak

353
Citations
Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst;Matthew J. Notowidigdo

346
Citations
Male Incarceration, the Marriage Market, and Female Outcomes

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Ming Ching Luoh

313
Citations
Local labor market fluctuations and health: Is there a connection and for whom?

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Philip DeCicca

311
Citations
Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men

Mark Aguiar;Mark Bils;Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst

252
Citations
Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men Since 1940

Patrick Bayer;Patrick Bayer;Kerwin Kofi Charles;Kerwin Kofi Charles

231
Citations
Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Jonathan Guryan

208
Citations
Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Erik Hurst;Erik Hurst;Matthew Notowidigdo

207
Citations
Gender Differences in Completed Schooling

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Ming-Ching Luoh

201
Citations
The Longitudinal Structure of Earnings Losses among Work-Limited Disabled Workers

Kerwin Kofi Charles

164
Citations
Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling

Kerwin Kofi Charles;Patrick Kline

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Hurst University of Chicago

Daniel I. Rees University of Colorado Denver

Patrick J. Bayer Duke University

Sheldon Danziger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley

Robert F. Schoeni University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

John Bound University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

Ronald Lee University of California, Berkeley

Justin Wolfers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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