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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Economics and Finance D-index 69 Citations 26,237 259 World Ranking 298 National Ranking 225

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Awards & Achievements

2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1997 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Statistics
  • Law
  • Econometrics

His primary scientific interests are in Labour economics, Econometrics, Earnings, Welfare and Estimation. His work on Wage as part of general Labour economics study is frequently connected to Selection, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. His Econometrics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Sample, Selection bias and Variables.

His Earnings research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Ask price, Value, Labor mobility and Compensation. His Welfare research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Longitudinal study, Social Welfare, Well-being, Demographic economics and Incentive. The study incorporates disciplines such as Variance, Development economics and Aid to Families with Dependent Children in addition to Demographic economics.

His most cited work include:

  • The Uses of Tobit Analysis (1527 citations)
  • Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review (894 citations)
  • An Economic Model of Welfare Stigma (887 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Welfare, Labour economics, Demographic economics, Earnings and Econometrics are his primary areas of study. His studies deal with areas such as Incentive, Negative income tax, Public economics and Medicaid as well as Welfare. A large part of his Labour economics studies is devoted to Wage.

He works mostly in the field of Demographic economics, limiting it down to topics relating to Aid to Families with Dependent Children and, in certain cases, Food Stamp Program, as a part of the same area of interest. His research integrates issues of Variance, Disadvantaged and Subsidy in his study of Earnings. His Econometrics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Estimation.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Welfare (33.43%)
  • Labour economics (31.77%)
  • Demographic economics (25.41%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2020)?

  • Earnings (24.31%)
  • Econometrics (20.17%)
  • Volatility (4.70%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Robert A. Moffitt mainly investigates Earnings, Econometrics, Volatility, Welfare and Earnings volatility. His studies in Earnings integrate themes in fields like Developing country, Cash and Unemployment. When carried out as part of a general Econometrics research project, his work on Semiparametric model, Panel data and Causal inference is frequently linked to work in Causal analysis, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.

In Panel data, Robert A. Moffitt works on issues like Truncation, which are connected to Estimation. He interconnects Nonparametric statistics, Labour economics and Demographic economics in the investigation of issues within Welfare. The concepts of his Labour economics study are interwoven with issues in Business cycle, Diversification and Demographic Aging.

Between 2015 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Long Run Trends in Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in China (29 citations)
  • Income Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results (10 citations)
  • Child Age and Gender Differences in Food Security in a Low-Income Inner-City Population (10 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Statistics
  • Law
  • Econometrics

His scientific interests lie mostly in Earnings, Food security, Welfare, Food insecurity and Low income. He has included themes like Incentive, Cash and Economic policy in his Earnings study. His Welfare study incorporates themes from Affect, Labour economics, Public economics and Demographic economics.

His work focuses on many connections between Labour economics and other disciplines, such as Unemployment rate, that overlap with his field of interest in Government. His study in Public economics is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Economic growth, Higher education and Value. His work carried out in the field of Socioeconomics brings together such families of science as Poverty, Current Population Survey, Estimation and Rasch model.

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Best Publications

The Uses of Tobit Analysis

John F. McDonald;Robert A. Moffitt.
The Review of Economics and Statistics (1980)

2788 Citations

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald;Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt.
Journal of Human Resources (1998)

2623 Citations

An Economic Model of Welfare Stigma

Robert Moffitt.
The American Economic Review (1983)

1699 Citations

Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review

Robert Moffitt.
Journal of Economic Literature (1992)

1411 Citations

A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT QUADRATURE PROCEDURE FOR THE ONE-FACTOR MULTINOMIAL PROBIT MODEL

J. S. Butler;Robert Moffitt.
Econometrica (1982)

1077 Citations

The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

Peter Gottschalk;Robert Moffitt;Lawrence F. Katz;William T. Dickens.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1994)

842 Citations

A Structural Model Of Multiple Welfare Program Participation And Labor Supply

Michael Keane;Robert Moffitt.
International Economic Review (1998)

817 Citations

Unemployment insurance and the distribution of unemployment spells

Robert Moffitt.
Journal of Econometrics (1985)

595 Citations

The Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains in Self-Selection Models

Anders Bjorklund;Robert Moffitt.
The Review of Economics and Statistics (1987)

514 Citations

Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

Robert A. Moffitt.
Research Papers in Economics (2002)

506 Citations

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