2026 Nora Lustig: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	52	199	175	120	101	310	15474
Economics and Finance	53	1170	1040	708	613	299	16014

Overview

Nora Lustig is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research spans fields primarily within Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant work in subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, General Health Professions, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics covered in Lustig's research include:

Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Taxation and Compliance Studies
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Employment and Welfare Studies
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Lustig has published extensively, with recent papers such as:

"Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America," 2023, published in Economía
"Measuring the Distributional Impact of Taxation and Public Spending: The Practice of Fiscal Incidence Analysis," 2020, published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
"The Pink Tide and Income Inequality in Latin America," 2023, published in Latin American Politics and Society
"How Brazil and Mexico Diverged on Social Protection in the Pandemic," 2021, published in Current History
"Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality: A Comparison of Correction Methods using Simulations and Linked Survey and Tax Data," 2022, published in Review of Income and Wealth

In addition to journal articles, Lustig has authored books published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks and CAF eBooks. Notable titles include:

"How Redistributive Is Fiscal Policy in China? New Evidence on the Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Spending," 2024
"El desafio del desarrollo en America Latina. Politicas para una region mas productiva, integrada e inclusiva," 2020

Frequent publication venues where Lustig's work appears include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Oxford Open Economics
The Journal of Economic Inequality
Harvard Dataverse
Economía

Their research collaborations often involve coauthors such as Valentina Martínez Pabón, Guido Neidhöfer, Patricio Larroulet, Mariano Tommasi, and Ali Enami.

Best Publications

World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty

Ravi Kanbur;Christina Malmberg Calvo;Monica Das Gupta;Christiaan Grootaert

3603
Citations
Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy

Nora Lustig

1025
Citations
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Nora Lustig;Luis F. Lopez-Calva;Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

933
Citations
Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?

Luis Felipe López-Calva;Nora Claudia Lustig

794
Citations
The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America

Leonardo Gasparini;Nora Lustig

490
Citations
The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America

Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Francois Bourguignon;Nora Lusting

460
Citations
The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America

François Bourguignon;Francisco Ferreira;Nora Lustig

334
Citations
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: Introduction to the Special Issue

Nora Lustig;Carola Pessino;John Scott

330
Citations
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Nora Lustig

297
Citations
Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig

242
Citations
Minimum Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries: Some Empirical Evidence

Nora Lustig;Darryl McLeod

216
Citations
Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics

Nancy Birdsall;Nora Lustig;Darryl McLeod

205
Citations
Pobreza y desigualdad en América Latina

Mauricio (Cárdenas Santa-María) Cárdenas S.;Nora Lustig

189
Citations
Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics

Nora Lustig

189
Citations
An Evaluation of World Bank Research, 1998-2005

Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Ken Rogoff;Ken Rogoff;Abhijit Banerjee;Edward Hsu

187
Citations
Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig;Luis F. Lopez-Calva;Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

186
Citations
Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Maynor Cabrera;Nora Lustig;Hilcías E. Morán

162
Citations
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?

Nancy Birdsall;Nora Lustig;Nora Lustig;Christian J. Meyer

160
Citations
Why is Inequality Back on the Agenda

Ravi Kanbur;Nora Lustig

143
Citations
North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact

William Diebold;Nora Lustig;Barry B. Bosworth;Robert Z. Lawrence

141
Citations
Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth

Nora Lustig

138
Citations
Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America

Liliana Rojas-Suárez;Nancy Birdsall;Moisés Naím;Eduardo Lora

136
Citations
Social Spending, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in Uruguay:

Marisa Bucheli;Nora Lustig;Máximo Rossi;Florencia Amábile

136
Citations
Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s The Increasing Role of Noncontributory Pensions

Nora Lustig;Carola Pessino

128
Citations
Investing in Health for Economic Development

Nora Lustig

122
Citations
The distributional impact of fiscal policy in South Africa

Gabriela Inchauste;Nora Lustig;Mashekwa Maboshe;Catriona Purfield

121
Citations
Labor markets in Latin America : combining social protection with market flexibility

Sebastián Edwards;Nora Lustig

114
Citations
Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom *

Nora Lustig

105
Citations
Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty

Nora Lustig

59
Citations
Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor?

Sean Higgins;Sean Higgins;Nora Lustig;Nora Lustig

50
Citations
Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases

Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Nora Lustig;Daniel Teles

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

John T. Scott Dartmouth College

Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development

Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science

Ricardo Hausmann Harvard University

Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison

François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics

Sebastian Edwards University of California, Los Angeles

Barry Bosworth Brookings Institution

Andrés Velasco London School of Economics and Political Science

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