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D-Index
39
Citations
6128
World Ranking
2433
National Ranking
1371

Peter F. Orazem 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 Peter F. Orazem sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 257 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Peter F. Orazem 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 Peter F. Orazem sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Peter F. Orazem is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with a strong focus on economics and econometrics as the subfield featuring the majority of their publications.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Recent published papers illustrate the diversity of their research focus, including:

  • "Active leisure, passive leisure and health," 2021, published in Economics & Human Biology
  • "Entry threat, entry delay, and Internet speed: The timing of the U.S. broadband rollout," 2020, published in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
  • "Which Small Towns Attract Start-Ups and Why? Twenty Years of Evidence from Iowa," 2020, published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • "How endogenous risk preferences and sample selection affect analysis of firm survival," 2020, published in Small Business Economics
  • "Winners and losers after 25 years of transition: Decreasing wage inequality in Slovenia," 2021, published in Economic Systems

Peter F. Orazem has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Levi Soborowicz
  • Soumyadip Roy
  • Georgeanne M. Artz
  • Younjun Kim
  • Katherine Lacy

Publication venues where they have contributed multiple works are:

  • Small Business Economics
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Economic Systems
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economics & Human Biology

In addition to journal articles, their scholarly output includes books published through World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including the title "Life Expectancy at Birth and Lifetime Education and Earnings" published in 2020.

This profile reflects an academic career characterized by engagement with both theoretical and applied dimensions of economics, with a particular interest in firm dynamics, labor markets, economic growth, and the intersection of technology and economic policy.

Best Publications

  • School Quality, School Cost, and the Public/Private School Choices of Low-Income Households in Pakistan

    Harold Alderman;Peter Orazem;Elizabeth M. Paterno

  • Haddad, Lawrence, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, eds. Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods, and Policy. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 384 pp., $55.00

    Peter F. Orazem

  • Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America

    Victoria Gunnarsson;Peter F. Orazem;Mario A. Sánchez

  • Winners and losers in transition: returns to education, experience, and gender in Slovenia

    Peter F. Orazem;Milan Vodopivec

  • The Effects of Housing Prices, Wages, and Commuting Time on Joint Residential and Job Location Choices

    Kim S. So;Kim S. So;Peter F. Orazem;Daniel M. Otto

  • Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy

    Peter F. Orazem;Elizabeth M. Kling

  • Can Private School Subsidies Increase Enrollment for the Poor? The Quetta Urban Fellowship Program

    Jooseop Kim;Harold Alderman;Peter F. Orazem

  • Value of human capital in transition to market: Evidence from Slovenia

    Peter F. Orazem;Milan Vodopivec

  • Male-female differences in labor market outcomes during the early transition to market: the case of Estonia and Slovenia

    Peter F. Orazem;Milan Vodopivec

  • Limiting Child Labor through Behavior-based Income Transfers: An Experimental Evaluation of the PETI Program in Rural Brazil

    Yoon-Tien Yap;Guilherme Sedlacek;Peter F. Orazem

  • Central Mandates and Local Incentives: The Colombia Education Voucher Program

    Elizabeth King;Peter Orazem;Darin Wohlgemuth

  • Does agglomeration matter everywhere?: new firm location decisions in rural and urban markets

    Georgeanne M. Artz;Younjun Kim;Peter F. Orazem

  • Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments

    Harold Alderman;Jooseoph Kim;Peter F. Orazem

  • Rural Population Growth, 1950-1990: The Roles of Human Capital, Industry Structure and Government Policy

    T. Huang;Peter Orazem;Darin Wohlgemuth

  • A Dynamic Model of Acreage Allocation with General and Crop-Specific Soil Capital

    Peter F. Orazem;John A. Miranowski

  • Empirical Tests of Efficiency Wage Models

    Tzu-Ling Huang;Arne Hallam;Peter Orazem;Elizabeth M. Paterno

  • Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-95

    Rivo Noorkôiv;Peter F. Orazem;Allan Puur;Milan Vodopivec

  • Deriving Empirical Definitions of Spatial Labor Markets: The Roles of Competing versus Complementary Growth

    Romana Khan;Peter F. Orazem;Daniel M. Otto

  • Broadband Internet and New Firm Location Decisions in Rural Areas

    Younjun Kim;Peter F. Orazem

  • Black-White Differences in Schooling Investment and Human Capital Production in Segregated Schools

    Peter Orazem

  • Does the fourth entrant make any difference?: Entry and competition in the early U.S. broadband market

    Mo Xiao;Peter F. Orazem

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Wallace E. Huffman
Wallace E. Huffman Iowa State University
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Leigh Tesfatsion
Leigh Tesfatsion Iowa State University
James C. McElroy
James C. McElroy Iowa State University
Jason F. Shogren
Jason F. Shogren University of Wyoming
Hans Gersbach
Hans Gersbach ETH Zurich
David E. Sahn
David E. Sahn Cornell University
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
Shantayanan Devarajan
Shantayanan Devarajan Georgetown University

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