2026 Paul Seabright: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	42	4623	4273	49	31	199	11253

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

4623

4273

199

11253

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

11253

World Ranking

4623

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Paul Seabright is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their academic work spans various topics primarily in the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, safety research, gender studies, management science and operations research, and demography.

Their research contributions cover topics such as:

Religion, Society, and Development
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Religion and Society Interactions
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Game Theory and Applications
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Paul Seabright has published extensively in various venues. Among the frequent publication platforms are:

Harvard Dataverse
Society
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Digital Access to Libraries
Evolutionary Human Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul Seabright include:

Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science, 2021, Evolutionary Human Sciences
God Insures those Who Pay? Formal Insurance and Religious Offerings in Ghana, 2020, Digital Access to Libraries
God Insures those Who Pay? Formal Insurance and Religious Offerings in Ghana, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics

The author has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Emmanuelle Auriol
Julie Lassébie
Amma Panin
Eva Raiber
Charlotte Wang

Among the distinctions received, Paul Seabright has been elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

Accountability and decentralisation in government: An incomplete contracts model

Paul Seabright

1288
Citations
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life Revised Edition

Paul Seabright

939
Citations
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life

Paul Seabright

728
Citations
The Economics of Tacit Collusion

Marc Ivaldi;Bruno Jullien;Patrick Rey;Paul Seabright

600
Citations
Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-country Survey

Wendy Carlin;Steven Fries;Mark E Schaffer;Paul Seabright

562
Citations
A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Wendy Carlin;Mark E. Schaffer;Paul Seabright

559
Citations
Managing Local Commons: Theoretical Issues in Incentive Design

Paul Seabright

542
Citations
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid

Bertin Martens;Uwe Mummert;Peter Murrell;Paul Seabright

532
Citations
Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation

Pierre Dubois;Olivier de Mouzon;Fiona Scott-Morton;Paul Seabright

308
Citations
Accountability and Decentralization in Government: An Incomplete Contracts Model

Paul Seabright

271
Citations
REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

Konstantine Gatsios;Paul Seabright

200
Citations
Competition, Privatisation and Productive Efficiency: Evidence From the Airline Industry

Charles K. Ng;Paul Seabright

195
Citations
Bailing out the Banks: Reconciling Stability and Competition

Thirsten Beck;Diane Coyle;Mathias Dewatripont;Xavier Freixas

193
Citations
Competition Policy and the Transformation of Central Europe

John Fingleton;Eleanor Fox;Damien Neven;Paul Seabright

180
Citations
Merger in Daylight: The Economics and Politics of European Merger Control

Damien J. Neven;Robin Nuttall;Paul Seabright

175
Citations
The effects and policy implications of state aids to industry: an economic analysis

Timothy Besley;Paul Seabright

173
Citations
Honest signaling in trust interactions: smiles rated as genuine induce trust and signal higher earning opportunities

Samuele Centorrino;Elodie Djemai;Astrid Hopfensitz;Manfred Milinski

161
Citations
Merger in daylight

Damien Neven;Robin Nuttall;Paul Seabright

155
Citations
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- THE AIRBUS CASE.

Damien J Neven;Paul Seabright

138
Citations
Bank Performance in Transition Economies

Steven Fries;Damien Neven;Paul Seabright

135
Citations
The Company of Strangers

Unknown

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Schaffer Heriot-Watt University

Manfred Milinski Max Planck Society

Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

Kenneth Siddle University of Cambridge

Barry I. Posner McGill University

Eric van Damme Tilburg University

External Links

Personal website of Paul Seabright Google Scholar page

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