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Donald Young

Decision Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Established · publishing since 1966
Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesCorporate Social Responsibility ReportingCorporate Finance and Governance

Publications

85

Citations

1,226

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

60

Publishing since 1966

Research summary
AI-generated

Donald Young's work centers on how people and organizations make decisions in accounting and financial reporting settings, often using behavioral experiments. Recent studies examine topics such as how contract wording and payoff uncertainty affect employee effort, how social norms shape reporting honesty, and how companies' environmental (ESG/emissions) disclosures influence investor judgments. Some recent publications also involve community-engaged public health research in Baltimore.

Behavioral accounting and reporting decisionsAudit judgment qualityESG and emissions disclosure effects on investorsSocial norms and reporting honestyCommunity-engaged public health research

Publication activity has been irregular over the last decade, peaking around 2019-2020, dipping in 2022-2023, and rising again in 2024, averaging about two publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 86 established Decision Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 1,226cohort median 1,756
h-index: 17cohort median 20
Publications / year (recent): 2.0cohort median 2.9

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 30% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 13 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
17182019: 4 publications192020: 6 publications6202021: 3 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 5 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 1 collaborator at the same institution2022: 1 collaborator at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×7
  • Contemporary Accounting Research×3
  • The Accounting Review×2
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials×2
  • Journal of Business Ethics×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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