Top Institutions and Economists in Illinois (United States), as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
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For Illinois (United States), these are 69 institutions with 630 members with a total share of 571.15.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.11	66	59.13
2	[2]	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.78	85	73.69
3	[3]	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.03	52	44.04
4	[4]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	4.00	53	45.24
5	[5]	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.34	34	30.03
6	[6]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.69	56	54.27
7	[7]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	7.07	44	37.69
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	7.24	18	15.11
8	[8]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	8.42	17	14.86
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.02	35	33.28
9	[9]	University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.57	30	24.24
10	[10]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	9.85	52	46.91
11	[11]	Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.81	5	2.74
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	10.82	9	7.10
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.86	13	11.69
-	[-]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.50	2	2
12	[12]	DePaul University → Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.60	16	11.86
13	[13]	University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	13.04	10	9.50
-	[-]	DePaul University → Graduate School of Business → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.41	7	5.67
14	[14]	Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)	14.45	5	4.80
15	[15]	University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	15.16	5	4.44
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	15.44	4	3.50
16	[17]	Southern Illinois University → Economics Department, Carbondale, Illinois (United States)	16.68	9	8.49
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Department of Economics → Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	16.93	3	1.06
17	[16]	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.20	2	1.12

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.34	85	10
2	[2]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.50	66	10
3	[3]	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.10	52	10
4	[4]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.85	53	10
5	[5]	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.10	34	10
6	[6]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	6.18	56	10
7	[7]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	6.64	44	10
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	7.74	18	10
8	[8]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	8.18	17	10
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	8.94	35	10
9	[9]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	9.79	52	10
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	9.99	13	10
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	10.29	9	7.10
10	[10]	Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.42	5	2.74
11	[12]	University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.24	30	10
12	[11]	Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)	11.53	5	4.80
13	[13]	University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.75	5	4.44
-	[-]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.80	2	2
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Center for Business and Public Policy, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	15.14	1	0.86
14	[14]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → School of Labor and Employment Relations, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	15.15	4	3.22
15	[15]	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.66	2	1.12
16	[17]	Northeastern Illinois University → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.74	4	4
17	[18]	Illinois State University → Department of Economics, Normal, Illinois (United States)	18.76	13	8.59

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	James J. Heckman	1.05
2	[2]	Eugene F. Fama, Sr.	4.17
3	[5]	Raghuram G. Rajan	4.26
4	[10]	Charles Manski	6.41
5	[4]	Robert W. Vishny	6.44
6	[7]	Lars Peter Hansen	7.50
7	[6]	Luigi Zingales	8.12
8	[12]	Lawrence J. Christiano	8.26
9	[8]	Marianne Bertrand	8.85
10	[3]	John List	9.08
11	[11]	Richard H. Thaler	10.79
12	[14]	James Alan Robinson	11.88
13	[16]	Harald Uhlig	14.09
14	[23]	Kevin M. Murphy	14.17
15	[15]	Michael Kremer	15.78
16	[19]	Steven Levitt	17.43
17	[21]	Steven N. Durlauf	17.48
18	[13]	Sendhil Mullainathan	18.50
19	[20]	Michael Greenstone	19.33
20	[22]	Douglas W. Diamond	22.22
21	[36]	Roger B. Myerson	23.18
22	[25]	Chad Syverson	24.16
23	[27]	Steven Neil Kaplan	25.37
24	[29]	Lubos Pastor	26.88
25	[32]	Magne Mogstad	26.96
26	[33]	Robert Shimer	28.33
27	[31]	Erik Hurst	28.77
28	[9]	Martin Eichenbaum	28.97
29	[41]	Kiminori Matsuyama	29.57
30	[30]	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg	31.36
31	[39]	George-Marios Angeletos	31.91
32	[40]	Charles L. Evans	32.73
33	[38]	Stefan Nagel	33.64
34	[43]	George M. Constantinides	34.06
35	[69]	Patric H. Hendershott	35.50
36	[42]	Ufuk Akcigit	38.89
37	[47]	Ravi Jagannathan	40.46
38	[28]	Dean Karlan	41.87
39	[26]	Anil Kashyap	41.98
40	[34]	Paola Sapienza	42.46
41	[46]	Greg Warren Kaplan	43.48
42	[51]	Ali Hortacsu	44.04
43	[18]	Robert J. Gordon	44.43
44	[49]	Christopher Udry	45.37
45	[50]	Christian Hansen	46.22
46	[83]	Austan Goolsbee	48.07
47	[87]	Ali M. Kutan	48.32
48	[48]	Giorgio Primiceri	48.80
49	[57]	Guido Lorenzoni	50.64
50	[71]	Daniel F. Spulber	50.89
51	[64]	Jonas Fisher	55.04
52	[61]	Milton Harris	55.77
53	[60]	Robert H. Topel	55.95
54	[63]	Asher Wolinsky	56.45
55	[75]	Ray Ball	56.55
56	[59]	Benjamin F. Jones	57.68
57	[56]	Christian Leuz	58.77
58	[66]	Mikhail Golosov	58.97
59	[67]	Brent Neiman	59.40
60	[62]	Robert Barsky	59.97
61	[65]	Nancy Stokey	61.03
62	[73]	Jens Ludwig	62.23
63	[44]	Bruce D. Meyer	62.98
64	[68]	Matthew J. Notowidigdo	64.36
65	[24]	Robert M. Townsend	64.40
66	[76]	Jeffrey Robert Brown	66.76
67	[74]	Aviv Nevo	70.51
68	[84]	Sam Peltzman	70.53
69	[81]	David Evans	72.27
70	[37]	Mitchell Petersen	73.32
71	[80]	Dan Black	73.51
72	[78]	Robert Kaestner	75.96
73	[90]	Dimitris Papanikolaou	78.23
74	[106]	Dennis W. Carlton	78.37
75	[17]	Sergio Rebelo	78.55
76	[103]	Konstantin Sonin	78.90
77	[85]	Daniel G. Sullivan	80.27
78	[89]	Richard Hornbeck	80.27
79	[88]	Efraim Benmelech	80.62
80	[92]	Philip J. Reny	81.05
81	[96]	Alessandro Pavan	81.72
82	[101]	Ehud Kalai	82.12
83	[91]	Leonardo Bursztyn	83.00
84	[94]	Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi	85.44
85	[104]	Jing Cynthia Wu	86.71
86	[98]	Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)	86.83
87	[108]	Daniel Aaronson	87.13
88	[116]	Pradeep K. Chintagunta	87.48
89	[100]	Janice Eberly	87.55
90	[105]	Francois Gourio	89.81
91	[97]	Fernando Alvarez	90.10
92	[93]	Roger Koenker	91.13
93	[53]	Don Fullerton	91.21
94	[35]	Torben G. Andersen	91.52
95	[107]	Dacheng Xiu	92.68
96	[77]	Nancy Qian	92.81
97	[125]	Daniel McMillen	92.97
98	[102]	Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.	93.86
99	[113]	David Dranove	93.94
100	[140]	Sajal Lahiri	94.60
101	[52]	Casey Mulligan	94.80
102	[109]	Constantine Nicholas Yannelis	96.45
103	[54]	Amir Sufi	98.52
104	[70]	Charles Milton Kahn	99.79
105	[146]	John F. McDonald	100.87
106	[119]	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	101.02
107	[117]	Joseph Vavra	103.61
108	[118]	Steven G. Rivkin	104.48
109	[141]	Erik Dietzenbacher	104.70
110	[121]	Azeem M. Shaikh	104.88
111	[124]	Firouz Gahvari	104.90
112	[127]	George G. Pennacchi	105.52
113	[55]	Eddie Dekel	106.91
114	[120]	Jonathan Guryan	107.56
115	[112]	Derek Neal	107.72
116	[126]	Mark Mitchell	109.50
117	[150]	Scott H. Irwin	110.39
118	[129]	Robert Korajczyk	110.47
119	[123]	Devin Pope	111.69
120	[131]	Lars A Stole	114.09
121	[143]	Tom Doan	114.43
122	[130]	Joshua D. Gottlieb	115.39
123	[58]	Dan Bernhardt	117.24
124	[132]	Andrea Frazzini	117.71
125	[128]	Murillo Campello	118.09
126	[134]	Christopher Blattman	120.69
127	[72]	Tomas Philipson	122.24
128	[162]	Georgios Karras	122.83
129	[139]	David Besanko	123.11
130	[142]	Stavros Panageas	124.54
131	[145]	Riza Demirer	124.72
132	[208]	Scott William Hegerty	128.59
133	[148]	Jing Zhang	129.78
134	[147]	Matthew Rognlie	129.82
135	[168]	Rik Hafer	130.40
136	[136]	Elie Tamer	130.49
137	[167]	Marcelo C. Medeiros	131.29
138	[171]	Francois Velde	131.99
139	[86]	Joel Mokyr	132.35
140	[137]	Tatyana Deryugina	132.50
141	[151]	Koichiro Ito	134.10
142	[149]	Jeffrey Ely	134.34
143	[156]	Bruno H. Strulovici	134.82
144	[154]	Raaj Kumar Sah	135.38
145	[82]	Robert H. Porter	135.91
146	[144]	Joel L. Horowitz	136.43
147	[159]	Hannes Schwandt	136.88
148	[161]	David Aaron Marshall	137.53
149	[160]	Jason Faberman	138.04
150	[221]	Richard Grabowski	139.95
151	[158]	Felix Tintelnot	140.24
152	[155]	Darren Lubotsky	141.29
153	[99]	Bob Chirinko	144.49
154	[157]	Ivan Alexis Canay	144.57
155	[152]	Ryan Kellogg	144.90
156	[173]	Richard Rosen	146.66
157	[172]	Sandeep Baliga	146.83
158	[163]	David Yves Albouy	147.72

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Magne Mogstad	2.06
2	[4]	Brent Neiman	3.69
3	[6]	Greg Warren Kaplan	5.99
4	[3]	Ufuk Akcigit	6.73
5	[1]	John List	7.07
6	[9]	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	7.57
7	[16]	Dacheng Xiu	8.21
8	[5]	James J. Heckman	8.57
9	[12]	Marianne Bertrand	10.97
10	[11]	Chad Syverson	10.99
11	[10]	Constantine Nicholas Yannelis	11.11
12	[15]	Stefan Nagel	12.47
13	[13]	Michael Greenstone	13.12
14	[23]	Lubos Pastor	14.82
15	[14]	Ali Hortacsu	15.05
16	[20]	Harald Uhlig	15.15
17	[26]	Riza Demirer	15.71
18	[19]	Guido Lorenzoni	16.53
19	[8]	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg	17.48
20	[18]	George-Marios Angeletos	17.52
21	[27]	Charles Manski	18.18
22	[17]	Matthew J. Notowidigdo	18.49
23	[25]	Peter Nathan Ganong	20.16
24	[24]	Erik Hurst	21.12
25	[30]	Christian Hansen	21.93
26	[7]	Sendhil Mullainathan	22.37
27	[28]	Matthew Rognlie	22.63
28	[29]	Leonardo Bursztyn	27.95
29	[38]	Diego Raoul Känzig (Diego Raoul Kaenzig)	30.26
30	[33]	Kilian Huber	30.39
31	[34]	Joseph Vavra	33.09
32	[35]	Jens Ludwig	36.16
33	[52]	Konstantin Sonin	36.98
34	[60]	Austan Goolsbee	37.01
35	[37]	Felix Tintelnot	38.36
36	[40]	Dimitris Papanikolaou	38.48
37	[42]	Efraim Benmelech	38.97
38	[44]	Hannes Schwandt	39.67
39	[47]	Alexander Torgovitsky	41.64
40	[32]	Dean Karlan	41.92
41	[43]	Alexander W Bartik (Alexander Wickman Bartik)	41.96
42	[39]	Thibaut Lamadon	43.28
43	[48]	Benjamin F. Jones	43.62
44	[45]	Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi	43.88
45	[55]	Tom Doan	44.46
46	[53]	Niels Gormsen	46.64
47	[21]	Martin Eichenbaum	47.70
48	[51]	David P Molitor	47.77
49	[70]	Ali M. Kutan	49.15
50	[56]	Luigi Zingales	49.30
51	[69]	Azeem M. Shaikh	49.82
52	[49]	Tatyana Deryugina	50.39
53	[65]	W Walker Hanlon	50.63
54	[50]	Giorgio Primiceri	50.93
55	[54]	Christopher Udry	51.37
56	[72]	Raghuram G. Rajan	51.42
57	[64]	Jiekun Huang	51.86
58	[57]	Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)	54.17
59	[59]	Robert Shimer	56.29
60	[73]	Eliza Forsythe	57.56
61	[58]	Christian Leuz	58.95
62	[66]	Jörg L. Spenkuch (Jorg L. Spenkuch)	58.96
63	[71]	Jack Mountjoy	61.12
64	[61]	Mikhail Golosov	61.71
65	[80]	Jing Cynthia Wu	62.05
66	[76]	Janice Eberly	62.17
67	[78]	Lars Peter Hansen	63.85
68	[67]	ManasI Deshpande	66.09
69	[75]	Hyunseob Kim	66.41
70	[79]	Francois Gourio	69.68
71	[74]	Jacob A. Robbins	70.08
72	[84]	Marta Lachowska	70.84
73	[92]	Koichiro Ito	71.53
74	[86]	Julian Reif	72.79
75	[91]	Lesley Jeanne Turner	73.71
76	[104]	Marcelo C. Medeiros	74.92
77	[85]	Ivan Alexis Canay	75.27
78	[83]	Robert Kaestner	76.54
79	[90]	Alessandro Pavan	78.57
80	[96]	Ian Louis Dew-Becker	78.70
81	[81]	Michael Kremer	79.89
82	[105]	Kiminori Matsuyama	80.74
83	[97]	Joel David	80.90
84	[94]	Emanuele Colonnelli	81.81
85	[63]	Nancy Qian	81.86
86	[127]	Pradeep K. Chintagunta	82.53
87	[103]	Daniel Aaronson	83.32
88	[107]	Stavros Panageas	83.85
89	[110]	Benjamin M. Marx	84.22
90	[114]	Gal Hochman	84.53
91	[100]	Benjamin Golub	84.92
92	[41]	Piotr Dworczak	85.47
93	[106]	Michael Powell	87.16
94	[164]	Bryan C. McCannon	88.77
95	[99]	Joshua D. Gottlieb	88.85
96	[112]	Anna Marie Costello	91.39
97	[108]	James Alan Robinson	91.89
98	[113]	Nicola Bianchi	92.57
99	[82]	Molly Schnell	95.05
100	[119]	Jason Faberman	97.21
101	[120]	Greg Howard	99.54
102	[115]	Michael Dinerstein	100.08
103	[46]	Veronica Guerrieri	100.79
104	[111]	Adam Osman	101.60
105	[123]	Lawrence J. Christiano	103.05
106	[109]	Jacob Conway	103.43
107	[135]	Hope C. Michelson	103.66
108	[142]	John R. Birge	103.77
109	[122]	Steven N. Durlauf	104.26
110	[118]	Richard Hornbeck	107.17
111	[124]	Carola Frydman	107.70
112	[128]	Daniel F. Spulber	109.09
113	[130]	Ezra Karger	109.17
114	[62]	Damon Jones	109.55
115	[126]	Anjali Adukia	110.55
116	[68]	Amir Sufi	111.61
117	[136]	Daniel Aaron Hartley	112.97
118	[141]	Luojia Hu	113.55
119	[152]	William Ridley	113.91
120	[133]	Russell Weinstein	115.59
121	[139]	Jing Zhang	115.63
122	[89]	Geoffrey J. D. Hewings	116.38
123	[148]	Francois Velde	117.53
124	[102]	Anil Kashyap	118.84
125	[150]	Daniel Martin	120.06
126	[134]	Bruno H. Strulovici	120.80
127	[226]	Scott William Hegerty	120.95
128	[144]	Mark Borgschulte	121.26
129	[137]	Filippo Mezzanotti	121.91
130	[87]	Mar Reguant	122.24
131	[129]	Devin Pope	122.54
132	[143]	Mahyar Kargar	124.40
133	[154]	Hardik A Marfatia	125.36
134	[158]	Rebecca Taylor	125.75
135	[140]	Richard H. Thaler	127.29
136	[88]	C. Kirabo Jackson	127.61
137	[131]	Christopher Blattman	130.11
138	[77]	Dan Bernhardt	133.31
139	[145]	Ameet Morjaria	134.87
140	[156]	Jorge Lemus	135.50
141	[151]	Sean Higgins	138.00
142	[117]	Bruce D. Meyer	138.25
143	[159]	Andrew Dillon	138.52
144	[147]	Rafael Lopes de Melo	139.33
145	[153]	Pietro Tebaldi	140.72
146	[157]	Mathias Kronlund	142.18
147	[176]	Sarah Ann Janzen	143.82
148	[216]	Richard Thomas Melstrom	147.21
149	[138]	Paola Sapienza	148.12
150	[179]	Liad Wagman	148.59
151	[198]	Sébastien Mary (Sebastien Mary)	151.30
152	[190]	Ji Hyung Lee	153.50
153	[168]	David Dranove	155.10
154	[172]	Michael Gibbs	155.52
155	[187]	Jonas Fisher	155.83
156	[174]	Guglielmo Briscese	156.20
157	[95]	Joel Mokyr	156.31
158	[177]	Jacopo Ponticelli	158.03

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