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Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
90
Citations
30886
World Ranking
172
National Ranking
124

Orazio Attanasio 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 Orazio Attanasio sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 409 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Orazio Attanasio 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 Orazio Attanasio sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Orazio Attanasio is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their primary research domain lies within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Education, Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Safety Research.

The core topics in their research address various socio-economic issues and developmental concerns. These topics include:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets

Orazio Attanasio has authored several recent papers, contributing to prominent academic journals. Notable publications are:

  • "Early Childhood Development, Human Capital, and Poverty," 2022, Annual Review of Economics
  • "Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India," 2020, The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT," 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • "Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison," 2020, Journal of Public Economics
  • "Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children," 2020, The Journal of Human Resources

Their work appears frequently in several academic venues, with a significant number of publications in the following journals and outlets:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Econometrica
  • PEDIATRICS
  • Journal of Public Economics

Collaboration plays a role in their research efforts, with frequent co-authorship alongside several scholars. Most frequent co-authors include:

  • Costas Meghir
  • Pamela Jervis
  • Gabriella Conti
  • Sally Grantham-McGregor
  • Marta Rubio-Codina

Recognition of their contributions includes honors such as being named Fellows of the Econometric Society in 2001 and being elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • A Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households

    Orazio P. Attanasio

  • Capital in the 21st Century

    Andrew Haldane;Rachana Shanbhogue;Orazio Attanasio;Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley

  • Is consumption growth consistent with intertemporal optimization? Evidence from the consumer expenditure survey

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Guglielmo Weber

  • Trade reforms and wage inequality in Colombia

    Orazio Attanasio;Pinelopi K. Goldberg;Nina Pavcnik

  • Consumption growth, the interest rate and aggregation

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Guglielmo Weber

  • Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption

    Orazio Attanasio;Steven J. Davis

  • Humps and Bumps in Lifetime Consumption

    Orazio P. Attanasio;James Banks;Costas Meghir;Guglielmo Weber

  • Consumption over the life-cycle and over the business-cycle

    Orazio P Attanasio;Martin Browning

  • Consumption Over the Life Cycle and Over the Business Cycle

    Orazio Attanasio;Martin Browning

  • Stock-Market Participation, Intertemporal Substitution, and Risk-Aversion

    Annette Vissing-Jørgensen;Orazio P. Attanasio

  • Saving, Growth, and Investment: A Macroeconomic Analysis Using a Panel of Countries

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Lucio Picci;Antonello E. Scorcu

  • Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Guglielmo Weber

  • Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa

    Orazio Attanasio;Costas Meghir;Ana Santiago

  • Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Costas Meghir;Ana Santiago

  • Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model

    Orazio Attanasio;Hamish Low;Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

  • The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia

    Orazio Attanasio;Britta Augsburg;Ralph De Haas;Emla Fitzsimons

  • Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals

    Andrés Ruiz-Linares;Kaustubh Adhikari;Victor Acuña-Alonzo;Mirsha Quinto-Sanchez

  • Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

    Orazio Attanasio;Adriana Kugler;Costas Meghir

  • A Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households

    Orazio Attanasio

  • A Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households

    Orazio Attanasio

  • Tests of income pooling in household decisions

    Orazio Attanasio;Valérie Lechene

  • Social Security and Households' Saving

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Agar Brugiavini

  • Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer program to deliver a scalable integrated early child development program in Colombia: cluster randomized controlled trial.

    Orazio Attanasio;Camila Fernandez;Emla Fitzsimons;Sally Grantham-McGregor

  • Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

    Orazio Attanasio;Guglielmo Weber;Guglielmo Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir Yale University
Guglielmo Weber
Guglielmo Weber University of Padua
James Banks
James Banks University of Manchester
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Pedro Carneiro
Pedro Carneiro University College London
Giovanni L. Violante
Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University
Thomas DeLeire
Thomas DeLeire Georgetown University
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania

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