Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Development, as of April 2026

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For Development, these are 1125 institutions and 1879 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	1	143	58.43
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	2.00	59	23.12
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.30	9	1.99
3	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.85	59	2.94
4	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	3.85	27	4.80
5	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	5.21	12	3.17
6	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	6.33	9	1.91
7	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	6.54	65	21.03
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	6.75	12	2.41
8	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.35	20	2.12
9	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.94	3	0.66
10	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	9.51	28	6.06
11	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	11.74	55	1.75
12	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	11.92	3	0.75
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	12.64	4	1.19
13	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	13.14	5	1.00
14	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.19	6	1.33
15	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.92	4	1.34
16	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	15.76	3	0.79
17	Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	16.13	22	8.61
18	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	18.28	20	2.39
19	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	18.97	9	1.24
20	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	19.97	135	5.82
21	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	21.76	16	4.40
22	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	21.79	6	2.68
23	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	22.10	17	4.12
24	Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	22.30	5	1.23
25	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	25.17	2	0.19
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	26.47	133	5.24
26	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	28.94	4	1.05
27	Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	29.27	3	0.71
28	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	30.06	8	1.26
29	Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	30.58	8	1.63
-	International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	30.82	4	1.23
30	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	32.10	3	0.69
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	32.41	11	1.69
31	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	32.55	2	0.60
32	Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	32.77	2	0.63
33	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	32.99	4	0.86
34	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	33.74	5	1.42
35	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	33.91	4	0.58
36	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	35.13	3	0.27
37	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	35.68	4	1.48
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	35.71	4	0.25
38	University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	38.87	1	0.30
39	European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	40.71	3	0.33
40	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	40.90	3	1.01
41	Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	41.98	3	0.33
42	Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	43.35	11	3.49
43	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	43.38	5	0.88
44	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	44.36	7	1.28
45	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	45.84	9	2.56
46	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	45.90	1	0.11
47	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	46.67	5	1.94
48	Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	47.30	3	0.48
49	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	48.20	4	1.58
50	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	48.91	1	0.14
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	49.71	10	1.66
51	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	51.29	5	1.13
-	Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	51.71	1	0.38
52	New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	52.30	2	0.70
53	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	52.80	3	0.50
54	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden	53.34	8	3.56
55	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	53.35	6	3.00
56	Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	53.55	3	1.53
-	World Bank Group → International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	54.39	13	6.22
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	54.96	4	0.36
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research → Data Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	56.31	7	3.19
57	Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	57.33	5	1.69
58	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.87	5	0.95
59	Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	57.90	2	1.12
-	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	58.56	6	2.97
-	Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	58.92	5	0.95
60	Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.15	10	2.83
-	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	60.16	1	0.23
61	University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)	60.74	4	0.38
62	University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	62.78	5	1.25
63	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	63.03	3	0.82
64	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	64.23	7	1.61
65	University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	66.10	3	1.06
66	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	66.49	1	0.40
67	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	67.36	10	1.57
68	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	67.85	11	2.43
69	United Nations → Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Roma, Italy	68.91	17	8.10
70	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	70.15	17	1.51
71	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	70.88	3	0.16
72	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	70.89	2	0.23
73	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	71.71	12	1.83
74	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	72.62	2	0.92
75	Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	73.57	1	0.13
76	Universidad Nacional de La Plata → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, La Plata, Argentina	73.64	17	4.89
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	73.68	2	0.43
76	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	73.68	2	0.43
78	Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	74.26	9	1.27
79	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	77.03	10	3.47
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	78.04	10	3.47
80	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	78.96	1	0.33
81	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	79.09	4	0.62
-	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	79.56	1	0.32
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	79.97	1	0.33
82	University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	80.47	4	2.05
83	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	81.77	7	1.70
84	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Göttingen, Germany	83.02	12	4.10
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	86.26	2	0.14
85	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	86.34	5	1.51
86	Université de Genève → Geneva School of Economics and Management, Genève, Switzerland	86.86	4	0.76
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	86.86	1	0.13
87	University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	88.36	2	0.59
88	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	88.47	3	0.45
89	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile	88.88	7	1.46
-	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	90.78	5	1.50
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Centre for Development Economics and Sustainibility (CDES), Melbourne, Australia	91.01	5	1.92
90	Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	91.11	2	0.65
91	University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)	91.34	2	0.63
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Banking and Finance, Caulfield, Australia	92.30	1	0.27
92	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	92.75	5	0.26
93	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	92.93	4	0.42
94	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	93.30	1	0.42
95	Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	93.92	3	1.05
96	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia	94.23	13	2.90
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	94.54	4	0.25
97	Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	95.04	1	0.23
98	The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies → International Economics Section, Genève, Switzerland	95.21	6	1.06
99	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	97.08	3	0.76
-	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Department für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Göttingen, Germany	99.09	8	2.38
-	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy → Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Canberra, Australia	99.47	7	2.41
100	Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	102.07	1	0.55
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	102.88	1	0.64
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	104.41	4	0.95
100	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	104.41	4	0.95
102	University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	105.06	3	1.06
103	Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	105.47	4	1.93
104	Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark	107.01	2	0.56
105	Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom	107.63	4	0.89
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	107.88	9	0.75
-	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	108.19	5	0.89
106	Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	108.19	1	0.11
107	University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	108.49	3	0.96
108	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)	108.69	2	0.63
109	Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) → Facultad de Economía, Bogotá, Colombia	109.25	11	4.34
110	Michigan State University → College of Agriculture and Natural Resources → Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	109.26	9	2.34
-	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	109.72	2	0.63
-	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios → Departamento de Economía, Santiago, Chile	111.16	6	1.33
111	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	111.62	1	0.30
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	111.69	5	0.64
112	Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie, Clermont-Ferrand, France	112.76	21	4.64

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Dani Rodrik Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.24
2	Martin Ravallion †	3.40
3	Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.48
4	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.33
5	Abhijit Banerjee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.74
6	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.60
7	Angus Deaton University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	10.00
8	David Malin Roodman	10.47
9	William Easterly National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	10.85
10	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	12.12
11	Jere Richard Behrman University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	13.24
12	David Mckenzie World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	14.01
13	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	14.09
14	Stephen J Turnovsky University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	14.47
15	Oded Galor Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	17.93
16	Michael Kremer University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	19.07
17	Simon Johnson	20.56
18	Aart Kraay World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	20.60
19	Ross Levine Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	22.26
20	Rafael La Porta National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	22.67
21	Stephen Knack †	23.42
22	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	23.44
23	Pranab K. Bardhan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	23.53
24	David Weil Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	23.83
25	Xavier Sala-i-Martin Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	24.59
26	Peter Howitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	25.21
27	Marcel A Fafchamps Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	26.55
28	Charles I. Jones Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	26.74
29	François J. Bourguignon (Francois J. Bourguignon) Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	27.68
30	David Dollar †	29.59
31	T. Paul Schultz Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	29.71
32	Dilip Mookherjee Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	32.94
33	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	32.96
34	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	33.59
35	Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	34.11
36	Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	34.15
37	Torsten Persson Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	34.32
38	Stephen J. Brown New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	35.49
39	Justin Yifu Lin Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	42.44
40	Jakob Svensson Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	43.20
41	Dean Karlan Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	43.96
42	Thorsten Beck European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	44.42
43	Klaus W. Deininger World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	44.50
44	Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	44.56
45	Robert C. Feenstra University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	46.93
46	Stefan Dercon Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	47.08
47	Christopher Udry Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	47.59
48	Alberto Alesina †	49.73
49	Stephan Klasen †	50.31
50	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	51.56
51	Edward Andrew Miguel University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	51.90
52	James Levinsohn	52.14
53	Anne Case	52.45
54	Orazio Attanasio University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	52.77
55	John Hoddinott Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	57.70
56	Jonathan Temple †	58.35
57	Jonathan Morduch New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	59.26
58	Robert M. Townsend University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	59.27
59	Lant Pritchett Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	59.60
60	Norman V. Loayza World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	63.17
61	Boyan Jovanovic New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	63.25
62	Petia Topalova International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	63.90
63	Petra Elisabeth Todd University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	67.07
64	Arvind Subramanian Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	69.46
65	Pete Klenow Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	69.92
66	Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	70.02
67	Nathan Nunn University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	71.24
68	Axel Dreher Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	72.25
69	Elias Papaioannou London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	73.04
70	Friedrich Georg Schneider Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	75.43
71	Paul William Glewwe University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	75.50
72	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)	76.98
73	John Strauss University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	77.98
74	Dean Yang University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) University of Michigan → Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	79.05
75	Antonio Ciccone Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	81.15
76	Edward C. Prescott †	82.22
77	Emmanuel Skoufias World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	83.39
78	Daniel Kaufmann Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	83.86
79	Adam Wagstaff †	84.07
80	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	85.67
81	Nina Pavcnik Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	85.73
82	Richard H. Adams, Jr. World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	88.84
83	Francesco Caselli London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	89.83
84	Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg	91.22
85	Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	91.76
86	Shang-Jin Wei Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	92.02
87	Scott Rozelle Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	92.60
88	Pedro Carneiro University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	100.70
89	Pascaline Dupas Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	101.18
90	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	103.25
91	Norbert Schady World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	103.31
92	Eliana La Ferrara	103.48
93	Larry E. Jones University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	103.66
94	Howard White Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi, India	104.46
95	Aaron Tornell University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	104.88
96	John Gibson University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	106.59
97	Sanjaya Lall †	106.73
98	Dominique van de Walle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	107.03
99	Duncan Thomas Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	107.84
100	Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	108.16
101	William Goetzmann Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	108.64
102	Shahidur Rahman Khandker International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	109.03
103	Karthik Muralidharan University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	109.60
104	Bronwyn H Hall University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	109.75
105	Matin Qaim Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Institut für Lebensmittel und Ressourcenökonomik, Bonn, Germany	111.06
106	David Bloom Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	111.24
107	Robin Burgess London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	111.43
108	Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	111.71
109	Finn Tarp Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	112.61
110	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	113.47
111	Christopher A Pissarides London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management → Department of Economics, Nicosia, Cyprus	114.80
112	Nancy Qian Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	115.00
113	Anthony J. Venables Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	115.46
114	Agnes Reynes Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	116.16
115	Jeffrey Gale Williamson	120.30
116	Mark M. Pitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	121.10
117	Andrew Foster Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	121.19
118	Pierre-Richard Agénor (Pierre-Richard Agenor) University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	121.93
119	Deon Filmer World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	122.22
120	Francis John Teal Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	124.10
121	Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	124.17
122	David Levine University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	125.63
123	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	126.03
124	Robert Cull World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	127.91
125	Loren Brandt University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	129.80
126	Alberto Chong Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	132.47
127	Peter Frederik Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	132.65
128	Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Ontwikkelings Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	135.68
129	Robert Owen Mendelsohn Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	136.79
130	Stijn Claessens Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	137.29
131	Omer Moav University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	137.42
132	Christopher Woodruff Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	139.99
133	Jonathan Robinson University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	140.34
134	Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	140.58
135	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	140.87
136	Seema Jayachandran Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	142.65
137	John Knight †	143.27
138	Kathleen Beegle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	143.63
139	Xavier Gine World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	144.08
140	Joseph Zeira Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	144.89
141	Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	145.77
142	James R. Tybout National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)	146.04
143	Kenneth Sokoloff †	147.93
144	John Whalley University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	148.33
145	Lori Beaman	148.51
146	Daniel Cohen †	148.86
147	Gaurav Datt Monash University → Monash Business School → Centre for Development Economics and Sustainibility (CDES), Melbourne, Australia	149.31
148	Sonia Bhalotra University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	150.58
149	David Canning Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	151.03
150	陈少华 (Shaohua Chen) Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	152.37
151	Simeon Djankov London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	154.85
152	Hongbin Li Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	157.77
153	Hanan Jacoby World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	157.81
154	Ann E. Harrison University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	158.15
155	Diego Restuccia University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	158.53
156	Geeta Gandhi Kingdon Institute of Education → Department of Quantitative Social Science, London, United Kingdom Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	160.80
157	Eswar Prasad Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	160.98
158	Robert H. Bates	161.79
159	William F. Maloney World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	161.91
160	Wolfgang Keller	162.31
161	Frances Stewart Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	163.34
162	Branko Milanovic World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) City University of New York (CUNY) → Graduate Center → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	163.56
163	Michael A. Clemens	164.88
164	Franklin Allen Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	166.83
165	Paul Segerstrom Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	167.64
166	Gary S. Fields	168.97
167	Douglas Gollin Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	169.47
168	Joshua D Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	172.11
169	Enrico Spolaore Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	172.46
170	Thorvaldur Gylfason	173.01
171	Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	174.22
172	Oliver Morrissey University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham, United Kingdom	175.17
173	Lakshmi Iyer University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	176.62
174	Chris Papageorgiou International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	177.15
175	James Feyrer Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	178.03
176	Daniel Lederman World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	181.11
177	Arne Bigsten Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	181.81
178	Rohini Pande Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	182.27
179	Lisa Cameron University of Melbourne → Faculty of Business and Economics → Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR), Melbourne, Australia	184.04
180	Uwe Sunde Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	184.28
181	Margaret Mcmillan Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	184.52
182	Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	184.53
183	John A. Maluccio Middlebury College → Department of Economics, Middlebury, Vermont (United States)	185.85
184	Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	186.29
185	Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	188.10
186	Stephen James Redding	188.26
187	Ari Kokko Copenhagen Business School → Institut for International Økonomi og Virksomhedsledelse, København, Denmark	188.80

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