Lawrence Katz

Lawrence Katz

Harvard University

H-index: 113

North America-United States

About Lawrence Katz

Lawrence Katz, With an exceptional h-index of 113 and a recent h-index of 71 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Harvard University, specializes in the field of Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Inequality, Economic History.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice

Introduction to" Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century"

“When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders

Evaluating contradictory experimental and nonexperimental estimates of neighborhood effects on economic outcomes for adults

The Inequality Economist

Effect of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Americans without dependent children on psychological distress: the Paycheck Plus Health Study randomized controlled trial

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the American Economic Review

Why do sectoral employment programs work? Lessons from WorkAdvance

Lawrence Katz Information

University

Position

Allison Professor of Economics

Citations(all)

104538

Citations(since 2020)

30389

Cited By

86201

hIndex(all)

113

hIndex(since 2020)

71

i10Index(all)

290

i10Index(since 2020)

145

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Lawrence Katz Skills & Research Interests

Economics

Labor Economics

Economics of Education

Inequality

Economic History

Top articles of Lawrence Katz

Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice

2019/8/19

Introduction to" Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century"

2024

“When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

2023/9/1

Evaluating contradictory experimental and nonexperimental estimates of neighborhood effects on economic outcomes for adults

Housing policy debate

2023/3/4

The Inequality Economist

2023/12

Effect of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Americans without dependent children on psychological distress: the Paycheck Plus Health Study randomized controlled trial

American journal of epidemiology

2022/8

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the American Economic Review

AEA Papers and Proceedings

2022

Why do sectoral employment programs work? Lessons from WorkAdvance

Journal of Labor Economics

2022/4/1

A Modern Safety Net

Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government’s Role, The MIT press, Cambridge, London

2021/2/2

EVALUATING CONTRADICTORY EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-EXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATES OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FOR ADULTS

2021/2

Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Journal of Economic Perspectives

2021/11

Response to “The Moving to Opportunity experiment: What do heterogeneous estimates of the effect of moving imply about causes?”

Econ Journal Watch

2020/9/1

The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City: Study examines the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus program that …

Health Affairs

2020/7/1

The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

2017/5

Extending the Race between Education and Technology

AEA Papers and Proceedings

2020/5/1

In praise of moderation: Suggestions for the scope and use of pre-analysis plans for rcts in economics

2020/4/20

Comments and Discussion

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

2018/4/1

The Incubator of Human Capital: The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm

2020/3/30

The Incubator of human capital

2020/3

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