2026 Rafael Di Tella: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	46	308	274	175	148	191	24338
Economics and Finance	47	1537	1373	923	804	176	24396

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.

Best Publications

Rents, Competition, and Corruption

Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

3129
Citations
Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alberto Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

2963
Citations
Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness

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

2480
Citations
The macroeconomics of happiness

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

2428
Citations
Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

1241
Citations
Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Schargrodsky

1072
Citations
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Rafael Di Tella;John Haisken De New;Robert MacCulloch

828
Citations
THE ROLE OF WAGES AND AUDITING DURING A CRACKDOWN ON CORRUPTION IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES

Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Schargrodsky

815
Citations
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AND CORRUPTION: SOME UNPLEASANT INTERVENTIONIST ARITHMETIC*

Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

791
Citations
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

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

723
Citations
Does Competition Kill Corruption

Christopher Bliss;Rafael Di Tella

613
Citations
Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

477
Citations
The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and some New Results:

Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

470
Citations
The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

Rafael Di Tella;Sebastian Galiant;Ernesto Schargrodsky

458
Citations
The consequences of labor market flexibility: Panel evidence based on survey data

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

392
Citations
"Plata o Plomo?": Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence

Ernesto Dal Bó;Pedro Dal Bó;Rafael Di Tella

338
Citations
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto Santiago Schargrodsky

330
Citations
Partisan Social Happiness

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

299
Citations
Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

Rafael M. Di Tella;Ignacio Franceschelli

286
Citations
Inflation, Inflation Variability, and Corruption

Miguel Braun;Rafael Di tella

225
Citations
The Causes and Consequences of Corruption: A Review of Recent Empirical Contributions

Alberto Ades;Rafael Di Tella

212
Citations
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

182
Citations
The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America

Rafael Di Tella;Sebastian Edwards;Ernesto Schargrodsky

114
Citations
Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals

Rafael Di Tella;William D. Savedoff

113
Citations
Inequality and Happiness: Are Americans and Europeans Different?

Alberto Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Robert McCulloch

65
Citations
Inflation and Corruption

Miguel Braun;Rafael Di Tella

26
Citations
Happiness and Beliefs in Criminal Environments

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

21
Citations
Introduction to Argentine exceptionalism

Edward L. Glaeser;Rafael Di Tella;Lucas Llach

17
Citations
Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond

Rafael Di Tella;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

14
Citations
Crime Victimization and Income Distribution

Rafael Di Tella;Sebastián Galiani;Ernesto Schargrodsky

11
Citations
Europe vs America: Institutional Hysteresis in a Simple Normative Model

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

11
Citations
Fairness and Redistribution: Comment †

Rafael M. Di Tella;Juan Dubra

10
Citations
Political and Economic Incentives during an Anti-Corruption Crackdown

Rafael Di Tella;Ernesto S. Schargrodsky

6
Citations
Some Uses of Happiness Data

Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

5
Citations
Crime and Violence

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Alfaro Harvard University

Sebastian Galiani University of Maryland, College Park

Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Alberto Alesina Harvard University

Dani Rodrik Harvard University

Sebastian Edwards University of California, Los Angeles

Raymond Fisman Boston University

Julio J. Rotemberg Harvard University

Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick

Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University

External Links

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