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62
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Louis Putterman 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 Louis Putterman sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 249 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Louis Putterman 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 Louis Putterman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% 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

  • 1983 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Louis Putterman is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields including sociology and political science, demography, safety research, economics and econometrics, and political science and international relations.

Their work covers a range of interconnected topics, notably culture, economy, and development studies; experimental behavioral economics studies; psychology of moral and emotional judgment; world systems and global transformations; international development and aid; decision-making and behavioral economics; and evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Louis Putterman has published in various academic venues, with a notable presence in the following journals and series:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Economic Review
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Economica
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Frequent collaborators include Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Matthias Sutter, and James Kai-sing Kung.

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Louis Putterman include:

  • "Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence" (2020) published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis" (2021) published in Explorations in Economic History
  • "The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19" (2023) published in European Economic Review
  • "Trust, Beliefs and Cooperation: Excavating a Foundation of Strong Economies" (2022) published in European Economic Review
  • "Civic engagement, the leverage effect and the accountable state" (2023) published in European Economic Review

Among recognitions, Louis Putterman was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1983.

Best Publications

  • Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments

    Olivier Bochet;Talbot Page;Louis Putterman

  • Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?

    John P. Bonin;Derek C. Jones;Louis Putterman

  • Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

    Louis Putterman;David N. Weil

  • States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start

    Valerie Bockstette;Areendam Chanda;Louis Putterman

  • Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency*

    Talbot Page;Louis Putterman;Bulent Unel

  • INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF DEMOCRACY.

    Pedro Dal Bó;Andrew Foster;Louis Putterman

  • Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism

    Christopher M. Anderson;Louis Putterman

  • PREFERENCES FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND PERCEPTION OF FAIRNESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

    Ruben Durante;Louis Putterman;Joël van der Weele

  • Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment

    Matthias Cinyabuguma;Talbot Page;Louis Putterman

  • Economics of Cooperation and the Labour-Managed Economy

    John P. Bonin;Louis G. Putterman

  • Share and share alike? Gender-pairing, personality, and cognitive ability as determinants of giving

    Avner Ben-Ner;Fanmin Kong;Louis Putterman

  • Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem

    Arhan Ertan;Talbot Page;Louis Putterman

  • Economics, values, and organization

    Avner Ben-Ner;Louis G. Putterman

  • Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment?

    Matthias Cinyabuguma;Talbot Page;Louis Putterman

  • Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game

    Avner Ben-Ner;Louis Putterman;Fanmin Kong;Dan Magan

  • Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Sanction Regimes

    Thomas Markussen;Louis Putterman;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • The ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation

    Umut Ones;Louis Putterman

  • Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment

    Avner Ben-Ner;Louis Putterman

  • State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia

    Oana Borcan;Ola Olsson;Louis Putterman

  • Cooperation and Punishment

    Louis Putterman

  • States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start

    Louis Putterman;Valerie Bockstette;Areendam Chanda

  • Trust and its determinants: Evidence from the Trustlab experiment

    Fabrice Murtin;Lara Fleischer;Vincent Siegerink;Arnstein Aassve

  • Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequity

    Louis Putterman;David Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran University of Vienna
Avner Ben-Ner
Avner Ben-Ner University of Minnesota
Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Martin G. Kocher
Martin G. Kocher University of Vienna
Andrew D. Foster
Andrew D. Foster Brown University
Randall S. Kroszner
Randall S. Kroszner University of Chicago
John E. Roemer
John E. Roemer Yale University
Arnstein Aassve
Arnstein Aassve Bocconi University

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