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2427
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Lawrence King 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 Lawrence King sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 143 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Lawrence King 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 Lawrence King sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lawrence King is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans the social sciences, with a focus on health disparities, international development, and economic and political factors influencing public health outcomes.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective, 2022, Annual Review of Sociology
  • Incarceration and mortality in the United States, 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • Structural adjustment programmes and infectious disease mortality, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach, 2022, Theory and Society
  • Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis, 2023, Cambridge Journal of Economics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas Stubbs
  • Alexander Kentikelenis
  • Bernhard Reinsberg
  • Elias Nosrati
  • David Stückler

Lawrence King has published multiple works in several academic venues, with the most publications appearing in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Theory and Society
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Their published books are associated with the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, including:

  • Collier on Bankruptcy Taxation, 2020
  • Collier Real Estate Transactions and the Bankruptcy Code, 2020

Lawrence King's main field of study is Social Sciences, with research distributed across subfields including:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Development
  • Political Science and International Relations

The primary topics of their work focus on:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • International Development and Aid
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis

    David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Martin McKee

  • IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014

    Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • Central European Capitalism in Comparative Perspective

    Lawrence P. King

  • Is wealthier always healthier? The impact of national income level, inequality, and poverty on public health in Latin America

    Brian Biggs;Lawrence King;Sanjay Basu;David Stuckler

  • WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease: a comparative analysis

    David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Helen Robinson;Martin McKee

  • The International Monetary Fund and the Ebola outbreak

    Alexander Kentikelenis;Lawrence King;Martin McKee;David Stuckler

  • Mass Privatization, State Capacity, and Economic Growth in Post-Communist Countries

    Patrick Hamm;Lawrence P. King;David Stuckler

  • The State‐Led Transition to Liberal Capitalism: Neoliberal, Organizational, World‐Systems, and Social Structural Explanations of Poland’s Economic Success

    Lawrence P. King;Aleksandra Sznajder

  • Postcommunist Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Transition to Capitalism in Poland and Russia*

    Lawrence King

  • The impact of IMF conditionality on government health expenditure: A cross-national analysis of 16 West African nations.

    Thomas Stubbs;Thomas Stubbs;Alexander Kentikelenis;David Stuckler;Martin McKee

  • International Monetary Fund programs and tuberculosis outcomes in post-communist countries.

    David Stuckler;Lawrence P King;Sanjay Basu

  • How structural adjustment programs affect inequality: A disaggregated analysis of IMF conditionality, 1980-2014.

    Timon Forster;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Bernhard Reinsberg;Thomas H. Stubbs

  • The world system and the hollowing out of state capacity: how structural adjustment programs affect bureaucratic quality in developing countries

    Bernhard Reinsberg;Alexander Kentikelenis;Thomas Stubbs;Lawrence King

  • How to evaluate the effects of IMF conditionality

    Thomas Stubbs;Thomas Stubbs;Bernhard Reinsberg;Bernhard Reinsberg;Alexander Kentikelenis;Lawrence King

  • Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries.

    Timon Forster;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

    Jonathan Kennedy;Jonathan Kennedy;Lawrence King

  • Structural adjustment and public spending on health: evidence from IMF programs in low-income countries

    Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • Can a bank crisis break your heart

    David Stuckler;Christopher M Meissner;Christopher M Meissner;Lawrence Peter King

  • An Objective Corruption Risk Index Using Public Procurement Data

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  • Brazil's health catastrophe in the making.

    Katarzyna Doniec;Rafael Dall'Alba;Lawrence King

  • Catalyzing Aid? The IMF and Donor Behavior in Aid Allocation

    Thomas H. Stubbs;Thomas H. Stubbs;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Lawrence P. King

  • WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease : a comparative analysis. Commentary

    Alan Lopez;David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Helen Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Alexander Kentikelenis
Alexander Kentikelenis Bocconi University
Martin Bobak
Martin Bobak University College London
Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot University College London
Marina Karanikolos
Marina Karanikolos London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Zoltán Kaló
Zoltán Kaló Semmelweis University
Michael McKee
Michael McKee Appalachian State University
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pompeu Fabra University

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