David Autor

334 total papers · 64.3k total citations
155 papers, 26.3k citations indexed

About

David Autor is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, David Autor has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 26.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 46 papers in General Health Professions and 36 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in David Autor's work include Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (69 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (39 papers) and Retirement, Disability, and Employment (29 papers). David Autor is often cited by papers focused on Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (69 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (39 papers) and Retirement, Disability, and Employment (29 papers). David Autor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. David Autor's co-authors include David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Richard J. Murnane, Frank Levy, Lawrence F. Katz, Mark Duggan, Daron Acemoğlu, Melissa S. Kearney, Alan B. Krueger and Christina Patterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

David Autor

148 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Skill Content of Rece... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2003 2013 2013 2015 2008 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
    2003 3.3k citations David Autor, Frank Levy et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  2. The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
    2013 2.2k citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. American Economic Review profile →
  3. The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market
    2013 2.0k citations David Autor, David Dorn American Economic Review profile →
  4. Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation
    2015 1.8k citations David Autor The Journal of Economic Perspectives profile →
  5. Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists
    2008 1.4k citations David Autor, Lawrence F. Katz et al. The Review of Economics and Statistics profile →
  6. Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
    1998 1.2k citations David Autor, Lawrence F. Katz et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  7. Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing
    2003 1.1k citations David Autor Journal of Labor Economics profile →
  8. The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms*
    2020 921 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  9. The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment
    2003 598 citations David Autor, Mark Duggan The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  10. The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
    2001 598 citations David Autor, Frank S. Levy et al. SSRN Electronic Journal profile →
  11. Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent”
    2014 595 citations David Autor Science profile →
  12. The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
    2016 573 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. Annual Review of Economics profile →
  13. Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
    2015 528 citations Daron Acemoğlu, David Autor et al. Journal of Labor Economics profile →
  14. Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
    2020 426 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. American Economic Review profile →
  15. Trade Adjustment: Worker-Level Evidence*
    2014 413 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  16. Women, War, and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Midcentury
    2004 390 citations Daron Acemoğlu, David Autor et al. Journal of Political Economy profile →
  17. Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets
    2015 349 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. The Economic Journal profile →
  18. Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
    2019 339 citations Morgan R. Frank, David Autor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages
    2013 325 citations David Autor, Michael Handel Journal of Labor Economics profile →
  20. Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
    2022 277 citations Daron Acemoğlu, David Autor et al. Journal of Labor Economics profile →
  21. Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
    2017 269 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. American Economic Review profile →
  22. The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
    2015 261 citations David Autor, Alan Manning et al. American Economic Journal Applied Economics profile →
  23. When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
    2019 223 citations David Autor, David Dorn et al. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics profile →
  24. Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing
    2014 212 citations Daron Acemoğlu, David Autor et al. American Economic Review profile →
  25. What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz'sThe Race between Education and Technology
    2012 192 citations Daron Acemoğlu, David Autor Journal of Economic Literature profile →
  26. New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
    2024 36 citations David Autor, Anna Salomons et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Autor 16.9k 6.9k 6.0k 4.8k 3.1k 155 26.3k
David Card 15.7k 0.9× 8.8k 1.3× 5.9k 1.0× 2.4k 0.5× 2.6k 0.8× 224 25.5k
Lawrence F. Katz 14.4k 0.9× 9.6k 1.4× 5.3k 0.9× 3.1k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 154 24.9k
Esther Duflo 13.7k 0.8× 7.2k 1.0× 2.6k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 2.1k 0.7× 155 31.1k
George A. Akerlof 14.7k 0.9× 6.9k 1.0× 2.0k 0.3× 3.3k 0.7× 3.0k 1.0× 99 31.2k
David Weil 12.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.4× 1.8k 0.3× 3.3k 0.7× 1.5k 0.5× 150 17.9k
Edward L. Glaeser 20.8k 1.2× 10.6k 1.5× 1.6k 0.3× 2.1k 0.4× 2.4k 0.8× 283 33.6k
Robert E. Hall 21.6k 1.3× 3.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 9.6k 2.0× 1.7k 0.6× 274 27.7k
Jerry A. Hausman 20.6k 1.2× 4.1k 0.6× 2.0k 0.3× 4.0k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 170 34.2k
Emmanuel Saez 13.3k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.3× 2.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 129 21.6k
Abhijit Banerjee 11.8k 0.7× 6.3k 0.9× 1.0k 0.2× 2.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 205 23.5k

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