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74
Citations
41105
World Ranking
361
National Ranking
249

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Steven N. Durlauf is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Sociology and Political Science. Their work spans a diverse range of topics including Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies, as well as Culture, Economy, and Development Studies.

Their frequent publication venues include the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have contributed extensively, as well as Sociological Methods & Research, Diffusion Fundamentals., Annual Review of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Key recent papers authored by Steven N. Durlauf include:

  • The Great Gatsby Curve (2022) - Annual Review of Economics
  • An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Comment (2020) - Journal of Political Economy
  • Everybody's Talkin' at Me: Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers (2023) - SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Everybody's talkin' at me: levels of majority language acquisition by minority language speakers (2024) - Economic Theory
  • Immobility As Memory: Some New Approaches to Characterizing Intergenerational Persistence via Markov Chains (2024) - SSRN Electronic Journal

They frequently collaborate with a group of scholars, including Yoosoon Chang, Joon Park, Andros Kourtellos, Chih Ming Tan, and William A. Brock.

Steven N. Durlauf has been recognized by their peers through memberships and fellowships. They were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Interpreting Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis

    Andrew B. Bernard;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Handbook of Economic Growth

    Philippe Aghion;Steven N. Durlauf

  • The New Empirics of Economic Growth

    Steven N. Durlauf;Danny T. Quah

  • Discrete Choice with Social Interactions

    William A. Brock;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Multiple regimes and cross‐country growth behaviour

    Steven N. Durlauf;Paul A. Johnson

  • Convergence in international output

    Andrew B. Bernard;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Interactions-Based Models

    William A. Brock;Steven N. Durlauf

  • ON THE EMPIRICS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

    Steven N. Durlauf

  • Multiple Time Series Regression with Integrated Processes

    Peter C.B. Phillips;Steven N. Durlauf

  • A Theory of Persistent Income Inequality

    Steven N. Durlauf;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Growth empirics and reality

    William A. Brock;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Chapter 8 Growth Econometrics

    Steven N. Durlauf;Paul A. Johnson;Jonathan R.W. Temple

  • Nonergodic economic growth

    Steven N. Durlauf

  • Imprisonment and crime

    Steven N. Durlauf;Daniel S. Nagin

  • Identification of Social Interactions

    Lawrence E. Blume;William A. Brock;Steven N. Durlauf;Yannis M. Ioannides

  • Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments

    William A. Brock;Steven N. Durlauf;Kenneth D. West

  • Chapter 4 The new empirics of economic growth

    Steven N. Durlauf;Danny T. Quah

  • Education production functions

    Eric A. Hanushek;Steven N. Durlauf;Lawrence E. Blume

  • Are Any Growth Theories Robust

    Steven N. Durlauf;Andros Kourtellos;Chih Ming Tan

  • The local Solow growth model

    Steven N Durlauf;Andros Kourtellos;Artur Minkin

  • Development Economics

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Brock
William A. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lawrence E. Blume
Lawrence E. Blume Cornell University
Andrew B. Bernard
Andrew B. Bernard Dartmouth College
Daniel S. Nagin
Daniel S. Nagin Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan R.W. Temple
Jonathan R.W. Temple Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
Peter C. B. Phillips
Peter C. B. Phillips Yale University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Yannis M. Ioannides
Yannis M. Ioannides Tufts University
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution
Jeffrey Fagan
Jeffrey Fagan Columbia University

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