2026 W. Kip Viscusi: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	93	6	6	6	6	558	35177
Economics and Finance	95	133	120	101	89	551	35610

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

W. Kip Viscusi is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and conducts research primarily in economics and health-related fields. Their recent scholarly contributions include multiple papers focusing on the intersections of global health risks, economic impacts of pandemics, and risk perception.

Selected recent papers by W. Kip Viscusi include:

Pricing the global health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Economic lessons for COVID-19 pandemic policies, 2021, Southern Economic Journal
Electronic cigarette risk beliefs and usage after the vaping illness outbreak, 2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
The global COVID-19 mortality cost report card: 2020, 2021, and 2022, 2023, PLoS ONE

Viscusi's frequent co-authors include Elissa Philip Gentry, Thomas J. Kniesner, Joel Huber, Robert J. Cramer, and Clayton J. Masterman.

Their work frequently appears in scholarly venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Regulation & Governance

W. Kip Viscusi's research spans several subfields within social sciences and health-related disciplines, including:

Economics and Econometrics
General Health Professions
Sociology and Political Science
Demography
General Decision Sciences

The main topics explored in their work cover:

Economic and Environmental Valuation
Global Health Care Issues
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Healthcare Policy and Management
Risk Perception and Management
Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Best Publications

The value of a statistical life: A critical review of market estimates throughout the world

W. Kip Viscusi;Joseph E. Aldy

2716
Citations
Economics of regulation and antitrust

W. Kip Viscusi;John Mitcham Vernon;Joseph Emmett Harrington

2536
Citations
Coda : Creativity and Improvisation in Jazzand Organizations: Implications Fororganizational Learning

Anil Gaba;W. Kip Viscusi;Alan Meyer;Frank J. Barrett

1189
Citations
Fatal Tradeoffs: Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk

W. Kip Viscusi

832
Citations
Utility Functions that Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications

W. Kip Viscusi;William N. Evans

780
Citations
Effectiveness of the EPA's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of Industrial Effluent Standards

Wesley A. Magat;W. Kip Viscusi

600
Citations
Do Smokers Underestimate Risks

W. Kip Viscusi

595
Citations
Economic Contests: Comparative Reward Schemes

Mary O'Keeffe;W. Kip Viscusi;Richard J. Zeckhauser

576
Citations
Workers' compensation and injury duration: evidence from a natural experiment

Bruce D Meyer;W. Kip Viscusi;David L Durbin

532
Citations
Prospective reference theory: Toward an explanation of the paradoxes

W Kip Viscusi

503
Citations
Smoking: Making the Risky Decision

W. Kip Viscusi

490
Citations
Pricing environmental health risks: survey assessments of risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs for chronic bronchitis☆

W Kip Viscusi;Wesley A Magat;Joel Huber

481
Citations
An Investigation of the Rationality of Consumer Valuations of Multiple Health Risks

W. Kip Viscusi;Wesley A. Magat;Joel Huber

458
Citations
Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects

Joseph E. Aldy;W. Kip Viscusi

421
Citations
Reforming products liability

W. Kip Viscusi

411
Citations
Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers?

W. Kip Viscusi;Charles J. O'Connor

410
Citations
Employment Hazards: An Investigation of Market Performance

W. Kip Viscusi

398
Citations
THE QUANTITY-ADJUSTED VALUE OF LIFE

Michael J. Moore;W. Kip Viscusi

362
Citations
Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning about Risk

Ted Gayer;James T. Hamilton;W. Kip Viscusi

339
Citations
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation

W. Kip Viscusi

309
Citations
Risk by choice : regulating health and safety in the workplace

W. Kip Viscusi

296
Citations
Rational Risk Policy

William Feldhaus;W. Kip Viscusi

293
Citations
A Note on "Lemons" Markets with Quality Certification

W. Kip Viscusi

262
Citations
Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers

W. Kip Viscusi;Joni Hersch

258
Citations
Rates of time preference and valuations of the duration of life

W.Kip Viscusi;Michael J. Moore

253
Citations
The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World

W. Kip Viscusi;Joseph E. Aldy

252
Citations
The Value of a Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;Thomas J. Kniesner;W. Kip Viscusi

92
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University

Joel Huber Duke University

Joni Hersch Vanderbilt University

Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University

Joseph E. Aldy Harvard University

James P. Ziliak University of Kentucky

William N. Evans University of Notre Dame

Robert N. Stavins Harvard University

Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford

Michael J. Boskin Stanford University

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