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Economics and Finance

D-Index
47
Citations
24396
World Ranking
1537
National Ranking
923

Political Science

D-Index
46
Citations
24338
World Ranking
308
National Ranking
175

Rafael Di Tella publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rafael Di Tella sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 191 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Rafael Di Tella D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rafael Di Tella sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rafael Di Tella is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, conducting research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields, including communication, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and general economics, econometrics and finance.

Di Tella's research topics focus notably on media influence and politics, social media and politics, electoral systems and political participation, media studies and communication, taxation and compliance studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, and global trade and economics.

The scientist has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues, with five papers published in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Additional publications appear in the AEA Randomized Controlled Trials series, The Economic Journal, The Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Recent papers include:

  • Labour Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys (2020, The Economic Journal)
  • Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy and Taxation at the Top (2021, The Journal of Law and Economics)
  • Does Social Media Cause Polarization? Evidence from Access to Twitter Echo Chambers During the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments During U.S. And French Elections (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage (2021, Journal of Comparative Economics)

Frequent co-authors include Ernesto Schargrodsky, Vincent Pons, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec, and Ramiro H. Gálvez, with collaborative work appearing in various joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Rents, Competition, and Corruption

    Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

  • Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

    Alberto Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert J. MacCulloch;Andrew J. Oswald

  • The macroeconomics of happiness

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert J. MacCulloch;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

    Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Schargrodsky

  • Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

    Rafael Di Tella;John Haisken De New;Robert MacCulloch

  • THE ROLE OF WAGES AND AUDITING DURING A CRACKDOWN ON CORRUPTION IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES

    Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Schargrodsky

  • NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AND CORRUPTION: SOME UNPLEASANT INTERVENTIONIST ARITHMETIC*

    Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

  • Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

    Rafael Di Tella;Rafael Di Tella;John Haisken-De New;Robert MacCulloch

  • Does Competition Kill Corruption

    Christopher Bliss;Rafael Di Tella

  • Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and some New Results:

    Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

  • The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

    Rafael Di Tella;Sebastian Galiant;Ernesto Schargrodsky

  • The consequences of labor market flexibility: Panel evidence based on survey data

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • "Plata o Plomo?": Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence

    Ernesto Dal Bó;Pedro Dal Bó;Rafael Di Tella

  • Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

    Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Santiago Schargrodsky

  • Partisan Social Happiness

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

    Rafael M. Di Tella;Ignacio Franceschelli

  • Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption

    Miguel Braun;Rafael Di tella

  • The Causes and Consequences of Corruption: A Review of Recent Empirical Contributions

    Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

  • Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

    Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America

    Rafael Di Tella;Sebastian Edwards;Ernesto Schargrodsky

  • Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals

    Rafael Di Tella;William D. Savedoff

  • Inequality and Happiness: Are Americans and Europeans Different?

    Alberto Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Robert McCulloch

  • Inflation and Corruption

    Miguel Braun;Rafael Di Tella

  • Happiness and Beliefs in Criminal Environments

    Rafael Di Tella;Hugo Ñopo;Hugo Ñopo;Robert MacCulloch

  • Introduction to Argentine exceptionalism

    Edward L. Glaeser;Rafael Di Tella;Lucas Llach

  • Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond

    Rafael Di Tella;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Crime Victimization and Income Distribution

    Rafael Di Tella;Sebastián Galiani;Ernesto Schargrodsky

  • Europe vs America: Institutional Hysteresis in a Simple Normative Model

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Fairness and Redistribution: Comment †

    Rafael M. Di Tella;Juan Dubra

  • Political and Economic Incentives during an Anti-Corruption Crackdown

    Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto S. Schargrodsky

  • Some Uses of Happiness Data

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Crime and Violence

    Rafael Di Tella;Lucia Freira;Ramiro H. Gálvez;Ernesto Schargrodsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Alfaro
Laura Alfaro Harvard University
Sebastian Galiani
Sebastian Galiani University of Maryland, College Park
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina Harvard University
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
Sebastian Edwards
Sebastian Edwards University of California, Los Angeles
Raymond Fisman
Raymond Fisman Boston University
Julio J. Rotemberg
Julio J. Rotemberg Harvard University
Andrew J. Oswald
Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick
Agustín Ibáñez
Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University

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