Danny Yagan

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Danny Yagan is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Yagan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Accounting and 6 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Danny Yagan's work include Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (10 papers), School Choice and Performance (6 papers) and Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (5 papers). Danny Yagan is often cited by papers focused on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (10 papers), School Choice and Performance (6 papers) and Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (5 papers). Danny Yagan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Danny Yagan's co-authors include Emmanuel Saez, Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Norbert Hilger, Matthew Weinzierl, N. Gregory Mankiw, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick and Matthew Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Danny Yagan

24 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star

2011 805 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States*

2020 159 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danny Yagan United States	12	1.0k	659	465	417	292	25	2.0k
Holger Sieg United States	21	1.4k 1.4×	378 0.6×	242 0.5×	535 1.3×	278 1.0×	66	2.0k
Patrick A. Puhani Germany	18	959 1.0×	351 0.5×	187 0.4×	589 1.4×	235 0.8×	72	1.9k
Derek Neal United States	19	1.0k 1.0×	917 1.4×	197 0.4×	528 1.3×	205 0.7×	43	2.3k
Julie Berry Cullen United States	16	687 0.7×	589 0.9×	325 0.7×	549 1.3×	263 0.9×	27	1.7k
Fernando Ferreira United States	13	1.5k 1.5×	413 0.6×	390 0.8×	707 1.7×	293 1.0×	18	2.3k
Giacomo De Giorgi United States	16	619 0.6×	278 0.4×	198 0.4×	483 1.2×	208 0.7×	55	1.4k
Zvi Eckstein Israel	27	1.6k 1.6×	221 0.3×	410 0.9×	781 1.9×	468 1.6×	64	2.6k
Lisa Kahn United States	16	1.5k 1.5×	215 0.3×	279 0.6×	548 1.3×	175 0.6×	28	2.2k
Wim P. M. Vijverberg United States	22	981 1.0×	172 0.3×	200 0.4×	510 1.2×	148 0.5×	58	1.8k
Stephen L. Ross United States	25	1.5k 1.5×	500 0.8×	421 0.9×	988 2.4×	110 0.4×	97	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Danny Yagan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Danny Yagan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Yagan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Danny Yagan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Danny Yagan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Danny Yagan. Danny Yagan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Gaubert, Cécile, et al.. (2025). Place-Based Redistribution. American Economic Review. 115(10). 3415–3450.

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Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, & Eric Zwick. (2022). The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4(3). 323–340. 11 indexed citations

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Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, & Eric Zwick. (2021). The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Gaubert, Cécile, Patrick Kline, & Danny Yagan. (2021). Place-Based Redistribution. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Gaubert, Cécile, et al.. (2021). Trends in US Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 111. 520–525. 24 indexed citations

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Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, & Eric Zwick. (2021). The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, & Eric Zwick. (2019). Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 134(4). 1675–1745. 141 indexed citations

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Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, & Eric Zwick. (2019). Capitalists in the Twenty-first Century. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Yagan, Danny. (2018). Employment Hysteresis from the Great Recession. Journal of Political Economy. 127(5). 2505–2558. 136 indexed citations

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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, & Danny Yagan. (2018). The SOI Databank: A case study in leveraging administrative data in support of evidence-based policymaking. Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 34(1). 99–103. 2 indexed citations

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Zidar, Owen, Eric Zwick, Danny Yagan, & Matthew Smith. (2017). Capitalists in the 21st Century. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Cooper, M. G., et al.. (2016). Business in the United States: Who Owns It, and How Much Tax Do They Pay?. Tax Policy and the Economy. 30(1). 91–128. 49 indexed citations

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Yagan, Danny. (2015). Capital Tax Reform and the Real Economy: The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut. American Economic Review. 105(12). 3531–3563. 228 indexed citations

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Yagan, Danny. (2012). LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS UNDER THE UC AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN. 3 indexed citations

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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Norbert Hilger, et al.. (2011). How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126(4). 1593–1660. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2010). How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR. NBER Working Paper No. 16381.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 40 indexed citations

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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2010). $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers. Phi Delta Kappan. 92(3). 22–25. 4 indexed citations

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Mankiw, N. Gregory, Matthew Weinzierl, & Danny Yagan. (2009). Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 73 indexed citations

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Mankiw, N. Gregory, Matthew Weinzierl, & Danny Yagan. (2009). Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations

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Song, Lynda L., Andrei Zlobin, Pushpankur Ghoshal, et al.. (2005). Alteration of SMRT Tumor Suppressor Function in Transformed Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas. Cancer Research. 65(11). 4554–4561. 15 indexed citations

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