Robert Manduca

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 797 citations indexed

About

Robert Manduca is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Manduca has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 797 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Robert Manduca's work include Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (9 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (6 papers). Robert Manduca is often cited by papers focused on Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (9 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (6 papers). Robert Manduca collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. Robert Manduca's co-authors include Nathaniel Hendren, Raj Chetty, David B. Grusky, Robert J. Sampson, Mario Luis Small, Seth Spielman, David C. Folch, Yuri Ostrovsky, Espen Bratberg and Martin D. Munk and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Robert Manduca

18 papers receiving 751 citations

Hit Papers

The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobi... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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. The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
    2017 448 citations Raj Chetty, David B. Grusky et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Manduca United States 10 495 203 140 132 92 20 797
Jonathan Rothwell United States 12 630 1.3× 299 1.5× 171 1.2× 83 0.6× 101 1.1× 43 953
Nick Buck United Kingdom 10 406 0.8× 218 1.1× 142 1.0× 110 0.8× 120 1.3× 15 810
Timo M. Kauppinen Finland 18 726 1.5× 219 1.1× 231 1.6× 114 0.9× 110 1.2× 54 993
Francesco Fasani United Kingdom 17 655 1.3× 184 0.9× 307 2.2× 93 0.7× 67 0.7× 33 894
Corrado Giulietti United Kingdom 15 493 1.0× 202 1.0× 152 1.1× 61 0.5× 109 1.2× 42 755
Jacob S. Rugh United States 13 961 1.9× 527 2.6× 347 2.5× 125 0.9× 88 1.0× 22 1.3k
Lesley Williams Reid United States 16 685 1.4× 81 0.4× 262 1.9× 102 0.8× 63 0.7× 30 902
Romina Boarini France 11 247 0.5× 185 0.9× 128 0.9× 101 0.8× 61 0.7× 23 663
Jennifer L. Doleac United States 16 472 1.0× 225 1.1× 99 0.7× 36 0.3× 56 0.6× 44 940
Nissa Finney United Kingdom 18 923 1.9× 131 0.6× 235 1.7× 114 0.9× 92 1.0× 54 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Manduca

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Manduca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Manduca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Manduca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Manduca 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 Robert Manduca. Robert Manduca 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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O’Brien, Rourke, et al.. (2025). Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality. SSM - Population Health. 30. 101791–101791.
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Manduca, Robert. (2025). Should social insurance programs count as wealth? Augmented wealth in research and policy. Socio-Economic Review. 23(4). 1863–1893.
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Manduca, Robert, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, et al.. (2024). Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe. American Economic Journal Applied Economics. 16(2). 1–30. 5 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert, et al.. (2021). Supplemental materials for paper: The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert, et al.. (2021). The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas. Regional Studies. 55(7). 1299–1310. 29 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert & Robert J. Sampson. (2021). Childhood exposure to polluted neighborhood environments and intergenerational income mobility, teenage birth, and incarceration in the USA. Population and Environment. 42(4). 501–523. 18 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, et al.. (2020). Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2020). The spatial structure of US metropolitan employment: New insights from administrative data. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 48(5). 1357–1372. 4 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2020). The spatial structure of US metropolitan employment: New insights from administrative data. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 48(5). 1357–1372. 15 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2019). The Contribution of National Income Inequality to Regional Economic Divergence. Social Forces. 98(2). 622–648. 61 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2019). Antitrust Enforcement as Federal Policy to Reduce Regional Economic Disparities. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 685(1). 156–171. 5 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert & Robert J. Sampson. (2019). Punishing and toxic neighborhood environments independently predict the intergenerational social mobility of black and white children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(16). 7772–7777. 76 indexed citations
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Small, Mario Luis, et al.. (2018). Ethnography, Neighborhood Effects, and the Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods across Cities. City and Community. 17(3). 565–589. 35 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2018). Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities. Sociological Science. 5. 182–205. 65 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2018). The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from LODES Data. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Manduca, Robert. (2018). The US Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Datasets. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). R5–R12. 4 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2017). The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science. 356(6336). 398–406. 448 indexed citations breakdown →
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Folch, David C., Seth Spielman, & Robert Manduca. (2017). Fast Food Data: Where User‐Generated Content Works and Where It Does Not. Geographical Analysis. 50(2). 125–140. 15 indexed citations
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Green, Ben, et al.. (2015). Mining Administrative Data to Spur Urban Revitalization. 1829–1838. 4 indexed citations

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