David Clingingsmith

909 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 487 citations indexed

About

David Clingingsmith is a scholar working on Accounting, Economics and Econometrics and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, David Clingingsmith has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 487 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Accounting, 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 6 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in David Clingingsmith's work include Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (6 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (5 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 papers). David Clingingsmith is often cited by papers focused on Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (6 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (5 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 papers). David Clingingsmith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. David Clingingsmith's co-authors include Michael Kremer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Scott Shane, Jeffrey G. Williamson, Will Drover, Moran Cerf, Roman M. Sheremeta, Leah Platt Boustan and Mark Conley and has published in prestigious journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science and The Economic Journal.

In The Last Decade

David Clingingsmith

19 papers receiving 459 citations

Hit Papers

Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering *
    2009 200 citations David Clingingsmith, Asim Ijaz Khwaja 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
David Clingingsmith United States 9 214 100 95 89 60 20 487
Martina Gianecchini Italy 12 107 0.5× 46 0.5× 63 0.7× 50 0.6× 51 0.8× 21 570
Robert K. Robinson United States 9 165 0.8× 40 0.4× 124 1.3× 44 0.5× 33 0.6× 44 505
Ignacio Ferrero Spain 14 136 0.6× 37 0.4× 51 0.5× 103 1.2× 31 0.5× 30 563
Julie Irene Hancock United States 8 141 0.7× 63 0.6× 85 0.9× 54 0.6× 19 0.3× 14 661
Frederick Scott Bentley United States 6 81 0.4× 67 0.7× 50 0.5× 77 0.9× 96 1.6× 8 381
Reuven Brenner Canada 11 183 0.9× 215 2.1× 110 1.2× 67 0.8× 57 0.9× 40 598
Margaret Heffernan Ireland 12 130 0.6× 41 0.4× 34 0.4× 48 0.5× 16 0.3× 27 665
Alain Klarsfeld France 12 255 1.2× 69 0.7× 25 0.3× 37 0.4× 38 0.6× 27 596
Tanja Rabl Germany 11 219 1.0× 51 0.5× 63 0.7× 96 1.1× 51 0.8× 23 530

Countries citing papers authored by David Clingingsmith

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Clingingsmith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Clingingsmith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Clingingsmith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Clingingsmith 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 David Clingingsmith. David Clingingsmith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Clingingsmith, David, Will Drover, & Scott Shane. (2022). Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study. Small Business Economics. 60(3). 947–974. 8 indexed citations
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Boustan, Leah Platt, et al.. (2022). Automation after the Assembly Line: Computerized Machine Tools, Employment and Productivity in the United States. SSRN Electronic Journal. 9 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David, Mark Conley, & Scott Shane. (2021). How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest. Journal of Innovation Economics & Management. N° 37(1). 139–175. 1 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2019). Mental accounts and the marginal propensity to give. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5(2). 170–181. 1 indexed citations
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Shane, Scott, Will Drover, David Clingingsmith, & Moran Cerf. (2019). Founder passion, neural engagement and informal investor interest in startup pitches: An fMRI study. Journal of Business Venturing. 35(4). 105949–105949. 75 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Scott Shane. (2017). Let Others Go First: How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest in Elevator Pitches. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints).
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Clingingsmith, David & Scott Shane. (2017). Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States. Management Science. 64(11). 5164–5179. 47 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Roman M. Sheremeta. (2017). Status and the demand for visible goods: experimental evidence on conspicuous consumption. Experimental Economics. 21(4). 877–904. 24 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Scott Shane. (2017). How Individual Income Tax Policy Affects Entrepreneurship. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 5 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Scott Shane. (2017). Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2016). Negative emotions, income, and welfare: Causal estimates from the PSID. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 130. 1–19. 9 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Roman M. Sheremeta. (2015). Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2015). Are the World’s Languages Consolidating? The Dynamics and Distribution of Language Populations. The Economic Journal. 127(599). 143–176. 6 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2014). Industrialization and Bilingualism in India. The Journal of Human Resources. 49(1). 73–109. 3 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2014). Industrialization and Bilingualism in India. The Journal of Human Resources. 49(1). 73–109. 7 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, & Michael Kremer. (2009). Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering *. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 124(3). 1133–1170. 200 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clingingsmith, David, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, & Michael Kremer. (2008). Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering. SSRN Electronic Journal. 35 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David. (2007). Bilingualism, Language Shift, and Industrialization in Mid-20 th Century India. 1 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Jeffrey G. Williamson. (2007). Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent. Explorations in Economic History. 45(3). 209–234. 44 indexed citations
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Clingingsmith, David & Jeffrey G. Williamson. (2004). India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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