2026 Lance Lochner: 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	45	1695	1520	42	36	136	24663

Overview

Lance Lochner is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and economics, with particular focus on labor economics, family dynamics, and financial literacy.

Their recent published papers include:

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?, 2021, Journal of Labor Economics
Parental Support, Savings, and Student Loan Repayment, 2021, American Economic Journal Economic Policy
Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms, 2022, Quantitative Economics
Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments, 2020, National Bureau of Economic Research
Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change, 2021, The Journal of Human Resources

Lance Lochner frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Youngmin Park
Audra J. Bowlus
Martin Gervais
Jacob Bastian
Elizabeth M. Caucutt

The primary publication venues for their work are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Labor Economics
American Economic Journal Economic Policy
The Journal of Human Resources
Quantitative Economics

The main fields of study covered by their research are:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

More specific subfields include:

Economics and Econometrics
Sociology and Political Science
Gender Studies
Accounting
Education

Lance Lochner's work addresses a range of topics such as:

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Work-Family Balance Challenges
Housing Market and Economics
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Best Publications

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha;James J. Heckman;Lance Lochner;Dimitriy V. Masterov

3709
Citations
The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence From Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

Lance Lochner;Enrico Moretti

3615
Citations
Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

James J. Heckman;Lance J. Lochner;Petra E. Todd

1469
Citations
Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

James Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

1299
Citations
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon B Dahl;Lance J Lochner

1298
Citations
Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

James J. Heckman;Lance J. Lochner;Petra E. Todd

1247
Citations
Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

James J Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

1195
Citations
The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

Philippe Belley;Lance J Lochner

1119
Citations
Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

James J. Heckman;Lance John Lochner;Petra E. Todd

1046
Citations
Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach

Lance Lochner

1030
Citations
Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

Flavio Cunha;James Joseph Heckman;Lance J. Lochner;Lance J. Lochner;Dimitriy V. Masterov

936
Citations
General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

James J. Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

896
Citations
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lance J Lochner

677
Citations
Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha;James J. Heckman;Lance Lochner;Dimitriy V. Masterov

636
Citations
Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

James Joseph Heckman;Lance J. Lochner;Petra E. Todd

599
Citations
The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

Lance J. Lochner;Alexander Monge-Naranjo

508
Citations
Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Lance Lochner

495
Citations
General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

James J Heckman;Lance Lochner;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

442
Citations
Credit Constraints in Education

Lance J Lochner;Alexander Monge-Naranjo

435
Citations
Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family

Elizabeth M Caucutt;Lance J Lochner

383
Citations
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon B. Dahl;Gordon B. Dahl;Gordon B. Dahl;Lance Lochner;Lance Lochner

364
Citations
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

Gordon B. Dahl;Lance Lochner

354
Citations
Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation

James J Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

324
Citations
Chapter 7 Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

James J. Heckman;Lance J. Lochner;Petra E. Todd

319
Citations
The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

Lance Lochner;Lance Lochner;Enrico Moretti;Enrico Moretti;Enrico Moretti

293
Citations
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship. NBER Working Paper No. 16722.

Lance Lochner

67
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Heckman University of Chicago

Christopher Taber University of Wisconsin–Madison

Petra E. Todd University of Pennsylvania

Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley

Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago

External Links

Personal website of Lance Lochner Google Scholar page

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