2026 Magne Mogstad: 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	1739	1563	1027	899	239	11021

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Magne Mogstad is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within economics and social sciences with a focus on labor market dynamics, inequality, and causal inference methods.

Their recent publications include:

Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market (2021, American Economic Review)
Trade and Domestic Production Networks (2020, The Review of Economic Studies)
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables (2021, American Economic Review)
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children? (2020, Journal of Political Economy)
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade (2021, American Economic Journal Applied Economics)

Magne Mogstad frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

Azeem M. Shaikh
Alexander Torgovitsky
Emmanuël Dhyne
Felix Tintelnot
Ayumu Ken Kikkawa

Their scholarly work is published primarily in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
American Economic Review
The Review of Economic Studies
Journal of Labor Economics
AEA Papers and Proceedings

Magne Mogstad's fields of study focus on:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences

They engage with several subfields including:

Economics and Econometrics
Sociology and Political Science
Accounting
Statistics and Probability
Gender Studies

Main topics covered in their research are:

Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Economic Policies and Impacts
Global trade and economics
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

In 2015, Magne Mogstad was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

Tarjei Havnes;Magne Mogstad

831
Citations
The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Anders Akerman;Ingvil Gaarder;Magne Mogstad

764
Citations
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection*

Lars J. Kirkeboen;Edwin Leuven;Magne Mogstad

763
Citations
Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Tarjei Havnes;Magne Mogstad

549
Citations
Peer Effects in Program Participation

Gordon B. Dahl;Katrine V. Løken;Magne Mogstad

520
Citations
Family Welfare Cultures

Gordon Boyack Dahl;Andreas Ravndal Kostøl;Magne Mogstad

465
Citations
Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Lasse Eika;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Basit Zafar

406
Citations
Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment

Manudeep Bhuller;Gordon B. Dahl;Katrine Vellesen Loken;Magne Mogstad

372
Citations
Beyond LATE with a Discrete Instrument

Christian N. Brinch;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Matthew Wiswall

297
Citations
What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Katrine V. Løken;Magne Mogstad;Matthew Wiswall

290
Citations
What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave

Gordon B. Dahl;Katrine Vellesen Loken;Magne Mogstad;Kari Vea Salvanes

280
Citations
Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

David Autor;Andreas Ravndal Kostol;Magne Mogstad;Bradley Setzler

280
Citations
Is universal child care leveling the playing field

Tarjei Havnes;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad

274
Citations
Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity

Rolf Aaberge;Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Vito Peragine

270
Citations
The distributional impact of public services when needs differ

Rolf Aaberge;Manudeep Bhuller;Audun Langørgen;Magne Mogstad

253
Citations
Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?*

Manudeep Bhuller;Tarjei Havnes;Edwin Leuven;Magne Mogstad

246
Citations
How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

Andreas Ravndal Kostøl;Magne Mogstad

216
Citations
Using Instrumental Variables for Inference about Policy Relevant Treatment Effects

Magne Mogstad;Magne Mogstad;Andres Santos;Alexander Torgovitsky

200
Citations
Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Manudeep Bhuller;Manudeep Bhuller;Tarjei Havnes;Edwin Leuven;Magne Mogstad

173
Citations
Trade and Domestic Production Networks

Felix Tintelnot;Ken Kikkawa;Magne Mogstad;Emannuel Dhyne

163
Citations
Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family

Richard Blundell;Michael Graber;Magne Mogstad

158
Citations
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market

Thibaut Lamadon;Magne Mogstad;Bradley Setzler

110
Citations
Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Manudeep Bhuller;Magne Mogstad;Kjell G Salvanes

51
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Aaberge Statistics Norway

Kjell G. Salvanes Norwegian School of Economics

David H. Autor MIT

John A. List University of Chicago

Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago

Ariel Kalil University of Chicago

Richard Blundell University College London

Basit Zafar University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Roger B. Myerson University of Chicago

Robert H. Topel University of Chicago

External Links

Personal website of Magne Mogstad Google Scholar page

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