For Illinois (United States), there are 506 authors affiliated with 62 institutions.
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| Rank | W.Rank | Author | Score |
| 1 | [1] | James J. Heckman Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 1.17 |
| 2 | [2] | Robert E. Lucas Jr. Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 3.37 |
| 3 | [3] | Eugene F. Fama Sr. Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 4.92 |
| 4 | [4] | John List Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 5.78 |
| 5 | [7] | Luigi Zingales Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 6.64 |
| 6 | [5] | Robert W. Vishny Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 7.48 |
| 7 | [8] | Lars Peter Hansen Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 7.51 |
| 8 | [11] | Lawrence J. Christiano Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 8.14 |
| 9 | [13] | Charles F. Manski Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University, Evanston | 8.81 |
| 10 | [10] | Richard H. Thaler Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 9.5 |
| 11 | [14] | James Alan Robinson Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 11.54 |
| 12 | [18] | Steven Levitt Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 12.35 |
| 13 | [17] | Marianne Bertrand Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 14.08 |
| 14 | [20] | Steven N. Durlauf Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 14.34 |
| 15 | [9] | Martin Eichenbaum Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 16.29 |
| 16 | [23] | Harald Uhlig Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 18.47 |
| 17 | [22] | Douglas W. Diamond Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 18.97 |
| 18 | [26] | Roger B. Myerson Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 21.52 |
| 19 | [30] | Kiminori Matsuyama Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 24.6 |
| 20 | [29] | Michael Greenstone Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 25.31 |
| 21 | [28] | Robert Shimer Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 25.74 |
| 22 | [6] | Raghuram G. Rajan George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 27.7 |
| 23 | [37] | Chad Syverson Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 29.04 |
| 24 | [36] | Ravi Jagannathan Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 29.31 |
| 25 | [31] | Charles L. Evans Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 29.93 |
| 26 | [50] | Patric H. Hendershott Department of Finance, Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, Chicago | 30.34 |
| 27 | [39] | Steven Neil Kaplan Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 31.93 |
| 28 | [41] | Lubos Pastor Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 33.16 |
| 29 | [24] | Anil K Kashyap Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 33.77 |
| 30 | [40] | George M. Constantinides Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 34.01 |
| 31 | [42] | Erik Hurst Applied Economics Workshop, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 34.08 |
| 32 | [16] | Robert J. Gordon Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 35.9 |
| 33 | [43] | Robert H. Topel Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 37.69 |
| 34 | [49] | Jonas D.M. Fisher Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 39.16 |
| 35 | [47] | Asher Wolinsky Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 39.58 |
| 36 | [44] | Robert B Barsky Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 39.86 |
| 37 | [19] | Kevin M. Murphy Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 40.47 |
| 38 | [45] | Nancy L. Stokey Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 40.52 |
| 39 | [78] | Ali M. Kutan Economics Department, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville | 42.18 |
| 40 | [52] | Christopher R. Udry Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 43.61 |
| 41 | [21] | Robert M. Townsend Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 44.56 |
| 42 | [57] | David S. Evans | 45.58 |
| 43 | [53] | Matthias Doepke Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 46.03 |
| 44 | [56] | Daniel F. Spulber Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 46.29 |
| 45 | [58] | Sam Peltzman Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 47.05 |
| 46 | [15] | Sergio T Rebelo Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 49.96 |
| 47 | [59] | Milton Harris Applied Economics Workshop, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 50.87 |
| 48 | [54] | Stefan Nagel Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 51.54 |
| 49 | [55] | Giorgio E. Primiceri Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 54.06 |
| 50 | [25] | Steven J. Davis Applied Economics Workshop, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 54.56 |
| 51 | [60] | Jeffrey Robert Brown College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 55.12 |
| 52 | [64] | Dan A. Black Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 55.28 |
| 53 | [69] | Ehud Kalai Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 57.12 |
| 54 | [117] | Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 57.82 |
| 55 | [66] | Guido Lorenzoni Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 59.12 |
| 56 | [74] | Dennis W. Carlton Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 61.01 |
| 57 | [75] | Ray Ball Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 61.37 |
| 58 | [67] | Fernando Alvarez Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 62.81 |
| 59 | [32] | Casey Mulligan Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 64.33 |
| 60 | [34] | Dean S. Karlan Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 64.45 |
| 61 | [70] | Philip J. Reny Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 65.02 |
| 62 | [71] | Aviv Nevo Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 67.11 |
| 63 | [83] | David Figlio Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University, Evanston | 67.17 |
| 64 | [93] | Daniel McMillen Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 68.12 |
| 65 | [35] | Bruce D. Meyer Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 69.63 |
| 66 | [33] | Mitchell Petersen Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 70.48 |
| 67 | [97] | Sajal Lahiri Economics Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale | 70.84 |
| 68 | [27] | Torben G. Andersen Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 71.24 |
| 69 | [38] | Paola Sapienza Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 72.26 |
| 70 | [90] | Daniel Aaronson Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 73.94 |
| 71 | [79] | Daniel G. Sullivan Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 75.11 |
| 72 | [46] | Don Fullerton Department of Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 77.01 |
| 73 | [87] | George G. Pennacchi Department of Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 77.6 |
| 74 | [82] | Derek A. Neal Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 78.51 |
| 75 | [86] | Hugo F. Sonnenschein Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 78.84 |
| 76 | [89] | Alessandro Pavan Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 79.64 |
| 77 | [102] | Bhashkar Mazumder Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 79.74 |
| 78 | [91] | Steven G. Rivkin Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago | 80.87 |
| 79 | [99] | Firouz Gahvari Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 81.21 |
| 80 | [80] | Christian Leuz Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 81.65 |
| 81 | [48] | Charles Milton Kahn Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign Department of Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 83.1 |
| 82 | [121] | Dhammika Dharmapala Institute of Law and Economics, Law School, University of Chicago, Chicago | 83.12 |
| 83 | [95] | Seema Jayachandran Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 83.42 |
| 84 | [88] | Roger Koenker Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 84.05 |
| 85 | [94] | Efraim Benmelech Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 84.13 |
| 86 | [111] | Ufuk Akcigit Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 85.03 |
| 87 | [109] | Magne Mogstad Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 86.08 |
| 88 | [103] | Gadi Barlevy Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 86.32 |
| 89 | [104] | David Dranove Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 86.89 |
| 90 | [73] | Robert John Kaestner University of Illinois at Chicago | 87.01 |
| 91 | [101] | Robert Korajczyk Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 88.04 |
| 92 | [100] | Christian Hansen Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 88.19 |
| 93 | [108] | Lars A Stole Applied Theory Initiative (ATI), Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 90.18 |
| 94 | [125] | Francois Velde Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 91.6 |
| 95 | [98] | Gilbert W. Bassett Jr. Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago | 92.21 |
| 96 | [113] | David Besanko Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 93.32 |
| 97 | [112] | Richard Hornbeck Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 94.89 |
| 98 | [114] | Brent Neiman Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 95.69 |
| 99 | [118] | Jeffrey C. Ely Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 95.96 |
| 100 | [122] | Francois Gourio Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 96.14 |
| 101 | [127] | Georgios Karras Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago | 96.19 |
| 102 | [110] | Francisco Javier Buera Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 96.23 |
| 103 | [126] | John F. McDonald Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago | 96.99 |
| 104 | [51] | Dan Bernhardt Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 97.43 |
| 105 | [115] | Ali Hortacsu Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 97.62 |
| 106 | [96] | Rajeev K. Goel Department of Economics, Illinois State University, Normal | 98.58 |
| 107 | [119] | Raaj Kumar Sah Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 100.74 |
| 108 | [142] | Scott H. Irwin Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 101.27 |
| 109 | [123] | Jeffrey R. Campbell Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 101.95 |
| 110 | [92] | Inkoo Cho Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 101.98 |
| 111 | [84] | Nancy Qian Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 103.91 |
| 112 | [116] | Joel L. Horowitz Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 104.3 |
| 113 | [131] | Richard Rosen Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 104.48 |
| 114 | [140] | Madhu Khanna Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign | 105.97 |
| 115 | [137] | Pradeep K. Chintagunta Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 106.1 |
| 116 | [120] | Elie Tamer Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 107.77 |
| 117 | [128] | David Aaron Marshall Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago | 107.94 |
| 118 | [62] | Amir Sufi Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 109.13 |
| 119 | [141] | Deirdre N. McCloskey Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago | 109.86 |
| 120 | [63] | Jeffrey T. Grogger Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 111.33 |
| 121 | [124] | Matthew J. Notowidigdo Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 111.37 |
| 122 | [68] | Tomas J Philipson Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 111.54 |
| 123 | [130] | Robert James Weber Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston | 113.02 |
| 124 | [61] | Eddie Dekel Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 113.49 |
| 125 | [65] | Robert H. Porter Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston | 114.17 |
| 126 | [134] | Christopher Blattman Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago | 115.12 |