2026 Ronald Lee: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	74	371	332	254	223	236	21716

Overview

Ronald Lee is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the social sciences and medicine, with a strong emphasis on demography and related subfields.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Social Sciences
Medicine

Within these broader areas, their research focuses on several subfields such as:

Demography
General Health Professions
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics

The central topics covered in Ronald Lee's publications concentrate on demographic and health issues, including:

Global Health Care Issues
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ronald Lee are:

"Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy" (2022), published in Population and Development Review
"Equality of access and resilience in urban population-facility networks" (2022), published in npj Urban Sustainability
"Redistributive effects of different pension systems when longevity varies by socioeconomic status" (2020), published in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
"Fine-grained data reveal segregated mobility networks and opportunities for local containment of COVID-19" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

Ronald Lee frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of the most frequent co-authors include:

Ali Mostafavi
Chao Fan
Xiangqi Jiang
Paul Demeny
Raya Muttarak

Their research outputs have been published in several notable venues, with multiple publications in:

Population and Development Review
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
npj Urban Sustainability
Scientific Reports

Best Publications

Modeling and forecasting U. S. mortality

Ronald D. Lee;Lawrence R. Carter

2549
Citations
The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change

Ronald Lee

1449
Citations
Evaluating the performance of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality.

Ronald Lee;Timothy Miller

775
Citations
Determinants of fertility in developing countries.

Bulatao Ra;Lee Rd;Hollerbach Pe;Bongaarts Jp

712
Citations
Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective

Ronald Demos Lee;Andrew Mason

653
Citations
The Lee-Carter Method for Forecasting Mortality, with Various Extensions and Applications

Ronald Lee

623
Citations
Fertility, Human Capital, and Economic Growth over the Demographic Transition

Ronald Demos Lee;Andrew Mason

552
Citations
Stochastic population forecasts for the United States: beyond high, medium, and low.

Ronald D. Lee;Shripad Tuljapurkar

470
Citations
The Outlook for Population Growth

Ronald Lee

466
Citations
Back to Basics: What is the Demographic Dividend?

Ronald Lee;Andrew Mason

423
Citations
Reform and Support Systems for the Elderly in Developing Countries: Capturing the Second Demographic Dividend

Andrew Mason;Ronald Lee

357
Citations
Demographic perspectives on mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics

Joshua R Goldstein;Ronald D Lee

331
Citations
Mortality decline and long-run economic growth

Junsen Zhang;Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Ronald Lee

302
Citations
Rising longevity, education, savings, and growth

Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Junsen Zhang;Ronald Lee

290
Citations
Life cycle saving and the demographic transition: the case of Taiwan.

Lee R;Mason A;Miller T

287
Citations
Population Aging and the Generational Economy

Ronald Lee;Andrew Mason

277
Citations
Population dynamics of humans and other animals.

Ronald D. Lee

276
Citations
Probabilistic Approaches to Population Forecasting

Ronald D. Lee

274
Citations
Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts

Ronald Lee;Timothy Miller

272
Citations
Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers: Introducing Age into National Accounts

Andrew Mason;Ronald Lee;An-Chi Tung;Mun-Sim Lai

262
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Miller University of Queensland

Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

David N. Weil Brown University

Justin Wolfers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Kerwin Kofi Charles Yale University

Alexia Prskawetz TU Wien

Germano Mwabu University of Nairobi

John Bongaarts Population Council

Junsen Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong

External Links

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