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D-Index
51
Citations
14869
World Ranking
1307
National Ranking
20

Michael Lechner 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 Michael Lechner sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 274 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Lechner 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 Michael Lechner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Lechner is affiliated with the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple interconnected disciplines, primarily within engineering and mathematics. The main fields of study covered in their work include Engineering and Mathematics, with significant contributions to subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, Mechanics of Materials, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their scholarly output includes both journal articles and conference publications. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
  • Labour Economics
  • Production Engineering

Michael Lechner's research topics are diverse, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise. Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Metal Forming Simulation Techniques
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis
  • Metallurgy and Material Forming
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

Their most recent papers include:

  • "Review on mechanical joining by plastic deformation," 2022, Journal of Advanced Joining Processes
  • "Cyber-Physical Systems in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Review, Categorization and Outlook," 2022, Information Systems Frontiers
  • "Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programs," 2020, The Journal of Human Resources
  • "Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium," 2022, Labour Economics
  • "Causal Machine Learning and its use for public policy," 2023, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics

Michael Lechner has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Marion Merklein, Simon Wituschek, Hugo Bodory, Martin Huber, and Andreas Hetzel. These collaborations reflect a broad network of scholarly interaction across both engineering and economics-related fields.

Best Publications

  • Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption

    Michael Lechner

  • The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods

    Michael Lechner

  • Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies

    Michael Lechner

  • Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-job Training in East Germany after Unification

    Michael Lechner

  • A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

    Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

  • LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY

    Michael Lechner;Ruth Miquel;Conny Wunsch

  • Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods

    Michael Lechner

  • An Evaluation of Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

    Michael Lechner

  • The performance of estimators based on the propensity score

    Martin Huber;Michael Lechner;Conny Wunsch

  • Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities.

    Michael Lechner

  • The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

    Michael Lechner;Ruth Miquel;Conny Wunsch

  • A Note on the Common Support Problem in Applied Evaluation Studies

    Michael Lechner

  • Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? Aneconometric analysis of two different schemes

    Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner;Heidi Steiger

  • Sports and Child Development

    Christina Felfe;Michael Lechner;Andreas Steinmayr

  • What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

    Conny Wunsch;Michael Lechner

  • Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High

    Michael Lechner;Conny Wunsch

  • East German Fertility After Unification: Crisis or Adaptation?

    Christoph Conrad;Michael Lechner;Welf Werner

  • An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

    Martin Eichler;Michael Lechner

  • Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

    Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

  • Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

    Michael Lechner

  • A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

    Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

  • Effects of continuous off-the-job training in East Germany after unification

    Michael Lechner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Downward
Paul Downward Loughborough University
Jörg Breitung
Jörg Breitung University of Cologne
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Arthur van Soest
Arthur van Soest Tilburg University
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Bernd Fitzenberger
Bernd Fitzenberger University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Almas Heshmati
Almas Heshmati Jönköping University
Michael G. Kenward
Michael G. Kenward London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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