William Jack

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
61 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

William Jack is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, William Jack has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in William Jack's work include Global Health Care Issues (15 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (11 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (11 papers). William Jack is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (15 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (11 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (11 papers). William Jack collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William Jack's co-authors include Tavneet Suri, James Habyarimana, Lehana Thabane, Paul Ritvo, Sarah Karanja, Edward J. Mills, Benson Estambale, Lawrence Gelmon, Michael H. Chung and Francis A. Plummer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

William Jack

56 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial

2010 989 citations Richard Lester, Paul Ritvo et al. The Lancet profile →
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution

2013 748 citations William Jack, Tavneet Suri American Economic Review profile →
The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money

2016 634 citations Tavneet Suri, William Jack profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Jack United States	19	1.6k	1.1k	728	535	521	61	3.4k
Pascaline Dupas United States	28	2.1k 1.3×	570 0.5×	230 0.3×	205 0.4×	163 0.3×	73	5.1k
John R. Kimberly United States	29	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	71 0.1×	752 1.4×	35 0.1×	82	6.5k
Bas Donkers Netherlands	35	1.7k 1.0×	551 0.5×	110 0.2×	146 0.3×	111 0.2×	93	5.0k
Markus Goldstein United States	27	1.1k 0.7×	907 0.8×	307 0.4×	16 0.0×	609 1.2×	137	4.3k
Jean‐Louis Denis Canada	45	1.2k 0.8×	3.7k 3.4×	66 0.1×	498 0.9×	70 0.1×	228	8.6k
Andrew Goodman-Bacon United States	9	2.0k 1.3×	689 0.6×	62 0.1×	60 0.1×	30 0.1×	17	4.1k
Aneil K. Mishra United States	18	333 0.2×	1.6k 1.4×	93 0.1×	373 0.7×	66 0.1×	31	5.1k
Ryan Riordan Canada	23	1.8k 1.1×	448 0.4×	212 0.3×	86 0.2×	140 0.3×	60	4.0k
Denise Anthony United States	26	505 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	150 0.2×	64 0.1×	298 0.6×	74	3.2k
Liran Einav United States	34	3.0k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	123 0.2×	246 0.5×	10 0.0×	93	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William Jack

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Jack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Jack

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Jack. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Jack 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 William Jack. William Jack 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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Sinharoy, Sheela, Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Karen A. Grépin, et al.. (2017). Effect of community health clubs on child diarrhoea in western Rwanda: cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health. 5(7). e699–e709. 30 indexed citations

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Habyarimana, James & William Jack. (2014). State versus Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya. National Bureau of Economic Research. 307–330. 1 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2012). Public Intervention in Health Insurance Markets. The World Bank Research Observer.

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Jack, William. (2012). Social Investment Funds. The World Bank Research Observer.

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Jack, William, Tavneet Suri, & Robert M. Townsend. (2010). Monetary Theory and Electronic Money: Reflections on the Kenyan Experience. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 96(1). 83–122. 29 indexed citations

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Lester, Richard, Paul Ritvo, Edward J. Mills, et al.. (2010). Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial. The Lancet. 376(9755). 1838–1845. 989 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hanson, Kara & William Jack. (2008). Health worker preferences for job attributes in Ethiopia : results from a discrete choice experiment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1–34. 33 indexed citations

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Laat, Joost de & William Jack. (2008). Adverse Selection and Career Outcomes in the Ethiopian Physician Labor Market. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Jack, William & Jean O. Lanjouw. (2008). Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2006). Optimal risk adjustment with adverse selection and spatial competition. Journal of Health Economics. 25(5). 908–926. 18 indexed citations

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Brun, Jean‐François, Patrick Guillaumont, J. Paul Gibson, et al.. (2005). The World Bank economic review 19 (1). The World Bank Economic Review. 19. 1–143. 2 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2004). The Organization of Public Service Provision. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 6(3). 409–425. 3 indexed citations

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Devarajan, Shantayanan, Fabrizio Bresciani, Gershon Feder, et al.. (2002). The World Bank research observer 17 (1). The World Bank Research Observer. 17. 1–148. 2 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2001). Public Policy toward Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2001). The public economics of tuberculosis control. Health Policy. 57(2). 79–96. 10 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2000). Health Insurance Reform in Four Latin American Countries: Theory and Practice. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (2000). Decentralizing the Provision of Health Services: An Incomplete Contracts Approach. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 1 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (1999). Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 47(7). 830–835. 67 indexed citations

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Jack, William & Louise Sheiner. (1997). Welfare-Improving Health Expenditure Subsidies. American Economic Review. 87(1). 206–221. 22 indexed citations

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Jack, William. (1994). SOME EFFECTS OF TAX CAPS ON INSURANCE PRICING AND COVERAGE RATES. National Tax Journal. 47(3). 519–528. 2 indexed citations

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