2026 Solomon W. Polachek: 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	45	1714	1539	1010	883	165	16146

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Economics and Finance

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165

16146

Overview

Solomon W. Polachek is affiliated with Binghamton University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with a focus on economics and econometrics, health, gender studies, safety research, and general health professions.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Agricultural risk and resilience
Health and Conflict Studies
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Polachek has published papers in multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Vaccine
World Development
Labour
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Notable recent papers include:

"The impact of paid family leave on the timely vaccination of infants," 2021, Vaccine
"The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War," 2022, World Development
"Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program," 2020, Labour
"COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking," 2024, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
"The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Polachek has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, with multiple joint publications involving:

Duong Trung Le
Ozlem Tonguc
Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Thanh Minh Pham
Marlon R. Tracey

Best Publications

Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women

Jacob Mincer;Solomon Polachek

3738
Citations
Occupational self-selection: a human capital approach to sex differences in occupational structure.

Solomon William Polachek

1670
Citations
Conflict and Trade

Solomon William Polachek

1171
Citations
The Economics of Earnings

Solomon Polachek;William Siebert

631
Citations
The economics of earnings

Solomon W. Polachek;W. Stanley Siebert

626
Citations
Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s

Unknown

474
Citations
Empirical Evidence on the Functional Form of the Earnings-Schooling Relationship

James Heckman;Solomon Polachek

441
Citations
An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: Women's Earnings Reexamined

Jacob Mincer;Solomon Polachek

348
Citations
Why Democracies Cooperate More and Fight Less: The Relationship Between International Trade and Cooperation

Solomon W. Polachek

341
Citations
Sex Differences in College Major.

Solomon William Polachek

338
Citations
Conflict and Interdependence East-West Trade and Linkages in the Era of Detente

Mark Gasiorowski;Solomon W. Polachek

317
Citations
Liberalism and Interdependence: Extending the Trade-Conflict Model

Solomon W. Polachek;John Robst;Yuan-Ching Chang

308
Citations
Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings

Claudia Goldin;Solomon Polachek

265
Citations
Potential Biases in Measuring Male-Female Discrimination.

Solomon William Polachek

249
Citations
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Solomon Polachek

249
Citations
Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Solomon W. Polachek

248
Citations
How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets

Ariel R. Belasen;Solomon W. Polachek

247
Citations
Differences in Expected Post-School Investment as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials

Solomon William Polachek

220
Citations
Panel Estimates of Male-Female Earnings Functions

Moon-Kak Kim;Solomon W. Polachek

206
Citations
A life cycle approach to migration: analysis of the perspicacious peregrinator

Solomon W. Polachek;Francis W. Horvath

190
Citations
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy.

Solomon William Polachek;Ronald G. Ehrenberg;Robert S. Smith

95
Citations
Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap

Solomon William Polachek

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Gaynor Carnegie Mellon University

Norman E. Spear Binghamton University

Eric Strobl University of Bern

Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University

Ronald G. Ehrenberg Cornell University

Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University

James J. Heckman University of Chicago

Claudia Goldin Harvard University

Olivier Bargain University of Bordeaux

Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics

External Links

Personal website of Solomon W. Polachek Google Scholar page

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