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Mark R. Rosenzweig

Mark R. Rosenzweig

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
90
Citations
43346
World Ranking
169
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Mark R. Rosenzweig is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans medicine, with a significant focus on physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and molecular biology, alongside intersections with soil science and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics including lung cancer treatments and mutations, mast cells and histamine, mercury impact and mitigation studies, land rights and reforms, agricultural risk and resilience, microfinance and financial inclusion, and tuberous sclerosis complex research. These topics reflect interdisciplinary contributions bridging medical sciences and economic studies.

Recent papers include:

  • Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size (2021, Journal of Political Economy)
  • Characterization of Clinical Cases of Malignant PEComa via Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of DNA and RNA (2020, Oncology)
  • Characterization of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancers With MET Exon 14 Skipping Alterations Detected in Tissue or Liquid: Clinicogenomics and Real-World Treatment Patterns (2021, JCO Precision Oncology)
  • Targetable BRAF and RAF1 Alterations in Advanced Pediatric Cancers (2020, The Oncologist)
  • Identifying the Costs of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh (2020, The Review of Economic Studies)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alexa B. Schrock
  • Rachel Erlich
  • Russell W. Madison
  • Siraj M. Ali
  • Brian M. Alexander

Publications frequently appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Oncology
  • JCO Precision Oncology
  • The Oncologist

Mark R. Rosenzweig's work is recognized in the broader academic community with awards including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1994)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979)

Best Publications

  • Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investments in Bullocks in India

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Kenneth I. Wolpin

  • Wealth, Weather Risk and the Composition and Profitability of Agricultural Investments

    Mark Rosenzweig;Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

  • Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Oded Stark

  • Microeconomics of technology adoption

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Returns to Birthweight

    Jere R. Behrman;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Behavioural and material determinants of production relations in agriculture

    Hans P. Binswanger;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;T. Paul Schultz

  • Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?

    Jere R. Behrman;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • RISK, IMPLICIT CONTRACTS AND THE FAMILY IN RURAL AREAS OF LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

    Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution

    Andrew D Foster;Mark R Rosenzweig

  • Market opportunities genetic endowments and intrafamily resource distribution: child survival in rural India

    Rosenzweig Mr;Schultz Tp

  • Testing the quantity-quality fertility model: the use of twins as a natural experiment.

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Kenneth I. Wolpin

  • Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Kenneth I. Wolpin

  • Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

    Kaivan Munshi;Mark Richard Rosenzweig

  • How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India

    Hans P. Binswanger;Shahidur R. Khandker;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Immigrant health: selectivity and acculturation

    Guillermina Jasso;Douglas S. Massey;Mark R. Rosenzweig;James P. Smith

  • Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China’s ‘One Child’ Policy

    Mark Richard Rosenzweig;Junsen Zhang

  • Fertility, schooling, and the economic contribution of children in rural India: an econometric analysis.

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Robert Evenson

  • Productivity, health and inequality in the intrahousehold distribution of food in low-income countries

    Mark M Pitt;Mark R Rosenzweig;Nazmul Hassan

  • Handbook of development economics

    Hollis Burnley Chenery;T. N. Srinivasan;Jere R. Behrman;T. Paul Schultz

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillermina Jasso
Guillermina Jasso New York University
Andrew D. Foster
Andrew D. Foster Brown University
Kenneth I. Wolpin
Kenneth I. Wolpin University of Pennsylvania
Mark M. Pitt
Mark M. Pitt Brown University
Junsen Zhang
Junsen Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Douglas S. Massey
Douglas S. Massey Princeton University
Christopher Udry
Christopher Udry Northwestern University
T. Paul Schultz
T. Paul Schultz Yale University

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