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D-Index
58
Citations
31499
World Ranking
885
National Ranking
27

Overview

Oded Stark is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has a substantial body of research within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, and Safety Research. Stark's research also addresses a variety of topics such as Migration and Labor Dynamics, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Employment and Welfare Studies, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, and Agricultural risk and resilience.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on socioeconomic issues, inequality, and behavioral economics. Notable papers include:

  • A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen's measures of inequality and social welfare (2021, Kyklos)
  • On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress (2023, Economics & Human Biology)
  • Risk aversion when preferences are altruistic (2022, Economics Letters)
  • Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks? (2023, Journal of Mathematical Sociology)
  • Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling (2020, Public Choice)

Frequently publishing in a variety of venues, Stark contributes often to the SSRN Electronic Journal, along with Economics & Human Biology, Economics Letters, Econstor, and RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. These outlets reflect their interdisciplinary research impact and engagement with both theoretical and applied economic and social topics.

Collaboration is a significant feature of Stark's research activity. Frequent co-authors include Grzegorz Kosiorowski, Marcin Jakubek, Wiktor Budziński, Ruxanda Berlinschi, and Łukasz Byra. This network of collaborators suggests ongoing partnerships that may cross disciplinary boundaries within social science and economics.

Best Publications

  • The Migration of Labor

    Oded Stark

  • The new economics of labor migration

    Oded Stark;David E Bloom

  • Motivations to Remit: Evidence from Botswana

    Robert E. B. Lucas;Oded Stark

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

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Oded Stark

  • Migration incentives migration types: the role of relative deprivation.

    Oded Stark;J. Edward Taylor

  • On Migration and Risk in LDCs

    Oded Stark;David Levhari

  • Remittances and Inequality

    Oded Stark;J. Edward Taylor;Shlomo Yitzhaki

  • Relative deprivation and international migration oded stark

    Oded Stark;J. Edward Taylor

  • Migration, remittances and the family

    Oded Stark;Robert E. B. Lucas

  • A Brain Gain with a Brain Drain

    Oded Stark;Christian Helmenstein;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Labor Migration and Risk Aversion in Less Developed Countries

    Eliakim Katz;Oded Stark

  • Inducing human capital formation: migration as a substitute for subsidies

    Oded Stark;Oded Stark;Yong Wang

  • Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a “curse”?

    Oded Stark;Oded Stark;Christian Helmenstein;Alexia Prskawetz

  • RETHINKING THE BRAIN DRAIN

    Oded Stark;Oded Stark

  • Individual Migration as a Family Strategy: Young Women in the Philippines

    Jennifer Lauby;Oded Stark

  • Rural-to-Urban Migration in LDCs: A Relative Deprivation Approach*

    Oded Stark

  • Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges within Families and Groups

    Oded Stark

  • Migrants savings the probability of return migration and migrants performance.

    Oded Galor;Oded Stark

  • Altruism within the family reconsidered: do nice guys finish last?

    Bernheim Bd;Stark O

  • Migration, remittances and inequality: A sensitivity analysis using the extended Gini index☆

    Oded Stark;Oded Stark;J.Edward Taylor;Shlomo Yitzhaki

  • Handbook of population and family economics

    Mark Richard Rosenzweig;Oded Stark

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Edward Taylor
J. Edward Taylor University of California, Davis
Oded Galor
Oded Galor Brown University
Shlomo Yitzhaki
Shlomo Yitzhaki Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Mark R. Rosenzweig Yale University
Donald Cox
Donald Cox Boston College
Franz Rendl
Franz Rendl University of Klagenfurt
Robert E. Lucas
Robert E. Lucas University of Chicago
Theodore C. Bergstrom
Theodore C. Bergstrom University of California, Santa Barbara
Junsen Zhang
Junsen Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong

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