Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Economic Growth, as of March 2026

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For Economic Growth, these are 589 institutions and 596 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	1	6	1.21
2	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	2.00	22	3.55
3	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3	3	0.41
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.21	2	0.11
5	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.77	26	0.56
6	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	6.22	1	0.34
7	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	7.62	3	1.16
8	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	7.87	3	0.35
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	9.26	8	0.23
9	Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	9.35	4	0.77
10	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	10.94	11	1.67
11	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	11.16	4	1.41
12	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	13.32	7	1.09
13	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	13.49	2	0.29
14	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	14.41	4	0.76
15	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	15.13	46	0.40
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	15.23	5	0.27
16	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	16.32	1	0.11
17	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	18.21	3	0.36
18	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	18.69	2	0.20
19	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	20.68	35	0.68
20	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	20.92	1	0.09
21	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	21.01	5	1.03
22	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	21.64	3	0.19
23	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	21.89	3	1.27
24	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	23.04	6	1.13
25	Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	23.57	2	1.16
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	24.21	2	0.16
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	24.49	4	1.13
26	Southern Methodist University → Department of Economics, Dallas, Texas (United States)	24.77	3	1.04
27	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	25.64	2	0.06
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	25.96	5	0.98
28	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	27.61	7	1.43
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	28.73	34	0.57
29	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	29.33	7	0.39
30	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	29.65	8	1.20
31	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	30.79	2	0.20
32	Korea University → Department of Economics, Seoul, South Korea	31.72	2	0.27
33	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	31.76	8	2.41
-	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	31.95	7	1.19
34	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	34.27	1	0.38
35	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	36.02	3	0.13
36	Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China	36.65	3	0.75
-	Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China	37.91	3	0.75
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	37.97	1	0.48
37	George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	38.06	3	0.89
38	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	39.21	1	0.02
-	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	39.58	2	0.22
39	WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria	39.94	5	0.87
40	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	40.26	1	0.02
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	40.26	1	0.02
41	Tel-Hai College → Department of Economics and Management, Upper Galilee, Israel	41.41	1	0.66
42	University of Houston → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)	43.05	2	0.34
-	Princeton University → Department of Economics → International Economics Section, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	43.78	1	0.05
43	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	44.26	2	0.17
-	WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien → Department Volkswirtschaft, Wien, Austria	45.01	4	0.75
44	Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy	45.53	5	0.75
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	45.90	4	0.21
46	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	47.32	3	0.62
47	ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	48.13	5	0.77
48	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	48.87	4	0.72
49	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Göttingen, Germany	49.01	1	0.21
50	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	49.23	1	0.34
51	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy	49.47	3	0.35
-	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Department für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Göttingen, Germany	50.08	1	0.21
-	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	51.62	2	0.27
51	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	51.62	2	0.27
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	52.07	2	0.13
53	Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland	52.40	3	0.42
54	University of Western Australia → Business School, Perth, Australia	52.60	1	0.25
-	University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia	52.60	1	0.25
-	WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien → Department Volkswirtschaft → Institut für Makroökonomie, Wien, Austria	53.32	2	0.43
55	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	53.63	5	1.22
56	United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht, Netherlands	53.98	2	0.51
57	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	54.81	1	0.06
58	University of Macau → Faculty of Business Administration, Macau, Macao	55.72	3	1.98

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Oded Galor Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	1.38
2	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.69
3	Charles I. Jones Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	3.45
4	Elhanan Helpman Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.64
5	Joseph Stiglitz	6.82
6	Alberto Alesina †	8.13
7	David Weil Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	8.53
8	Nathan Nunn University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	8.63
9	Gene Grossman	10.47
10	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	12.65
11	Stephen Broadberry Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	12.96
12	Nicholas Crafts †	13.67
13	Joel Mokyr Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States) Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	15.02
14	Isaac Ehrlich	16.50
15	Romain Wacziarg University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	16.70
16	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	18.10
17	Avner Greif Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	18.73
18	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	20.12
19	Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	20.37
20	Mohammad Hashem Pesaran University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	23.06
21	Thomas Chaney University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	24.55
22	Dani Rodrik Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	25.57
23	Pietro F. Peretto Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	27.79
24	David de la Croix Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	27.88
25	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	28.18
26	Paola Giuliano	29.29
27	Emi Nakamura University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	31.64
28	Kiminori Matsuyama Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	31.83
29	Raphael Franck Tel-Hai College → Department of Economics and Management, Upper Galilee, Israel	32.10
30	Enrico Spolaore Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	32.81
31	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	32.97
32	Pascual Restrepo Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	33.67
33	Quamrul H. Ashraf Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	33.67
34	Jorn-Steffen Pischke	34.10
35	Holger Strulik Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Department für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Göttingen, Germany	37.60
36	Jakob B. Madsen University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia	37.82
37	Omer Moav University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	38.02
38	Heng-fu Zou Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China	38.89
39	Klaus Prettner WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien → Department Volkswirtschaft → Institut für Makroökonomie, Wien, Austria	40.69
40	Jong-Wha Lee Korea University → Department of Economics, Seoul, South Korea	41.71
41	Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	42.61
42	Ömer Özak (Omer Ozak) Southern Methodist University → Department of Economics, Dallas, Texas (United States)	44.20
43	Jonathan Temple	46.73
44	Muhammad Shahbaz Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China	48.69
45	Ezra Oberfield Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	50.00
46	John van Reenen London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	51.92
47	Moritz Schularick Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	52.83
48	Harald Uhlig University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	52.89
49	Cormac Ó Gráda (Cormac O Grada) University College Dublin → School of Economics, Dublin, Ireland	52.90
50	Sascha O. Becker University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	53.22
51	Remi Jedwab George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	54.80
52	Angus C. Chu University of Macau → Department of Economics, Macau, Macao	56.81
53	Sefa Awaworyi Churchill RMIT University → School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, Melbourne, Australia	57.92
54	Marc Klemp Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	58.34
55	Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Madrid, Spain Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Madrid, Spain	59.57
56	Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	61.62
57	Enrico Moretti University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	62.54
58	Nancy Qian Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	65.62
59	Jared Rubin Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States)	66.19

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