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D-Index
49
Citations
12366
World Ranking
1434
National Ranking
23

Rafael Lalive 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 Rafael Lalive sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 163 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Rafael Lalive 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 Rafael Lalive sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rafael Lalive is an academic affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their primary field of study is social sciences, with a focused expertise in economics and econometrics.

Their research spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, general health professions, demography, sociology and political science, and gender studies. The main topics covered in their work include employment and welfare studies, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, retirement, disability, and employment, gender, labor, and family dynamics, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, global health care issues, and work-family balance challenges.

Rafael Lalive has published extensively across multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics
  • Labour Economics
  • Nature

Their recent papers reflect a range of interdisciplinary topics and include:

  • "Mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed by helpline calls" (2021, Nature)
  • "COVID-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: evaluation and outlook" (2020, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics)
  • "acreg: Arbitrary correlation regression" (2023, The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata)
  • "How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives" (2022, Science Robotics)
  • "How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming" (2023, American Economic Journal Economic Policy)

Rafael Lalive collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mirjam Bächli
  • Marius Brülhart
  • Fabrizio Colella
  • Michele Pellizzari
  • Achim Ahrens

Best Publications

  • On making causal claims: A review and recommendations

    John Antonakis;Samuel Bendahan;Philippe Jacquart;Rafael Lalive

  • How Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return to Work? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

    Rafael Lalive;Josef Zweimüller

  • The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

    Alois Stutzer;Rafael Lalive

  • How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach

    Rafael Lalive

  • The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

    Rafael Lalive;Jan C. van Ours;Josef Zweimüller

  • How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

    Rafael Lalive;Jan C. van Ours;Josef Zweimüller

  • Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission

    Charles Efferson;Charles Efferson;Charles Efferson;Rafael Lalive;Rafael Lalive;Peter J. Richerson;Richard McElreath

  • Causality and Endogeneity

    John Antonakis;Samuel Bendahan;Philippe Jacquart;Rafael Lalive

  • HOW EFFECTIVE ARE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SANCTIONS? LOOKING BEYOND UNEMPLOYMENT EXIT

    Patrick P. Arni;Patrick P. Arni;Rafael Lalive;Jan C. van Ours

  • Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Duration, and Post-Unemployment Jobs: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

    Rafael Lalive

  • Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

    Fabrizio Colella;Rafael Lalive;Seyhun Orcan Sakalli;Mathias Thoenig

  • The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

    Andreas Kuhn;Rafael Lalive;Josef Zweimüller

  • Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation

    Verena Tiefenbeck;Lorenz Goette;Kathrin Degen;Vojkan Tasic

  • Does Early Child Care Affect Children's Development?

    Christina Felfe;Rafael Lalive

  • Does early child care affect children's development?

    Christina Felfe;Rafael Lalive

  • Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

    Rafael Lalive;M. Alejandra Cattaneo

  • Parental leave and mothers' careers: The relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

    Rafael Lalive;Analía Schlosser;Andreas Steinhauer;Josef Zweimüller

  • Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

    Rafael Lalive;Camille Landais;Josef Zweimüller

  • Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration

    Rafael Lalive;Josef Zweimüller;Josef Zweimüller

  • The Demand for Social Insurance: Does Culture Matter?

    Beatrix Eugster;Rafael Lalive;Andreas Steinhauer;Josef Zweimüller

  • Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being

    Rafael Lalive;Alois Stutzer

  • Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

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Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Zweimüller
Josef Zweimüller University of Zurich
Jan C. van Ours
Jan C. van Ours Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alois Stutzer
Alois Stutzer University of Basel
John Antonakis
John Antonakis University of Lausanne
Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore
Giuliano Bonoli
Giuliano Bonoli University of Lausanne
Gerard J. van den Berg
Gerard J. van den Berg University of Groningen
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Mark Lubell
Mark Lubell University of California, Davis
Armin Falk
Armin Falk University of Bonn

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