| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1.00 | 74 | 4.42 |
| 2 | University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 2.19 | 7 | 2.60 |
| 3 | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 3.00 | 6 | 0.82 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 3.96 | 7 | 0.95 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 4.87 | 35 | 5.00 |
| 6 | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 5.19 | 253 | 8.25 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 6.41 | 250 | 7.78 |
| 7 | Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 7.00 | 8 | 1.68 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States) | 8.13 | 1 | 0.46 |
| 9 | Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 10.11 | 3 | 1.24 |
| 10 | Duke University → Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, North Carolina (United States) | 11.15 | 3 | 2.09 |
| 11 | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 11.85 | 9 | 1.93 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom | 11.97 | 22 | 2.64 |
| 12 | University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom | 12.61 | 6 | 0.41 |
| 13 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 12.91 | 15 | 3.36 |
| 14 | University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom | 14.48 | 9 | 1.94 |
| 15 | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 15.02 | 2 | 0.62 |
| 16 | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 15.38 | 18 | 4.96 |
| 17 | University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 16.08 | 3 | 0.46 |
| 18 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 16.75 | 15 | 3.72 |
| 19 | University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada | 17.40 | 2 | 0.65 |
| 20 | University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) | 17.71 | 3 | 0.79 |
| 21 | Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19.99 | 8 | 2.71 |
| 22 | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 20.45 | 4 | 0.81 |
| 23 | Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 23.55 | 4 | 1.58 |
| 24 | Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 24.75 | 5 | 1.91 |
| 25 | University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada | 25.91 | 5 | 1.40 |
| 26 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway | 26.58 | 8 | 0.86 |
| 27 | CESifo, München, Germany | 26.99 | 44 | 1.73 |
| 28 | University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States) | 27.58 | 6 | 2.14 |
| 29 | University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada | 28.57 | 3 | 0.90 |
| 30 | University College Dublin → School of Economics, Dublin, Ireland | 28.77 | 5 | 1.21 |
| 31 | Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia | 29.54 | 12 | 1.97 |
| - | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway | 30.56 | 6 | 0.82 |
| - | Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 31.07 | 4 | 2.12 |
| 31 | Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 31.07 | 4 | 2.12 |
| 33 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States) | 31.32 | 3 | 1.08 |
| 34 | University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom | 31.38 | 8 | 2.36 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom | 33.74 | 6 | 1.36 |
| 35 | Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden | 34.81 | 10 | 3.23 |
| 36 | Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark | 35.61 | 9 | 2.78 |
| 37 | Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 36.22 | 1 | 0.37 |
| - | Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 36.22 | 1 | 0.37 |
| 38 | Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 38.15 | 1 | 0.60 |
| - | World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 38.98 | 8 | 1.64 |
| 39 | University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 40.46 | 3 | 1.47 |
| 40 | Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 40.68 | 4 | 1.30 |
| - | University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 41.36 | 1 | 0.21 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom | 42.13 | 11 | 1.16 |
| 42 | Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 43.04 | 3 | 0.75 |
| 43 | University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States) | 43.88 | 4 | 1.71 |
| 44 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain | 44.05 | 10 | 2.16 |
| 45 | Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States) | 44.33 | 4 | 0.70 |
| 46 | University of Melbourne → Faculty of Business and Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 45.02 | 11 | 4.62 |
| 47 | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden | 45.06 | 5 | 1.29 |
| 48 | Università degli Studi di Padova → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali "Marco Fanno", Padova, Italy | 45.98 | 4 | 1.12 |
| 49 | University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States) | 46.17 | 1 | 0.47 |
| - | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden | 47.34 | 4 | 1.22 |
| 50 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel | 47.85 | 2 | 0.55 |
| 51 | Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States) | 48.92 | 3 | 0.57 |
| 52 | University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States) | 49.76 | 2 | 0.80 |
| 53 | University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States) | 50.48 | 3 | 0.94 |
| 54 | University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom | 52.31 | 4 | 1.54 |
| - | Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 52.78 | 7 | 1.31 |
| 55 | University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States) | 54.34 | 3 | 1.49 |
| 56 | University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 54.62 | 2 | 0.40 |
| 57 | Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy | 56.06 | 5 | 1.32 |
| 58 | University of Florida → Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, Florida (United States) | 58.79 | 1 | 0.50 |
| 59 | City University of New York (CUNY) → Graduate Center → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 59.23 | 3 | 0.48 |
| 60 | Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden | 59.52 | 8 | 1.26 |
| 61 | University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom | 59.69 | 5 | 1.54 |
| 62 | Cornell University → Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 60.81 | 2 | 0.48 |
| 63 | KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium | 61.67 | 7 | 1.57 |
| 64 | Government of Sweden → Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet, Stockholm, Sweden | 63.17 | 10 | 1.90 |
| 65 | W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States) | 63.43 | 5 | 1.28 |
| - | Government of Sweden → Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet → Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk Utvärdering (IFAU), Uppsala, Sweden | 64.21 | 9 | 1.89 |
| 66 | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 64.83 | 1 | 0.29 |
| 67 | Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States) | 65.78 | 3 | 0.35 |
| - | University of Bristol → School of Economics → Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), Bristol, United Kingdom | 67.75 | 5 | 1.31 |
| 68 | University of Missouri → Department of Economics, Columbia, Missouri (United States) | 68.44 | 5 | 2.29 |
| 69 | Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 68.52 | 2 | 0.51 |
| 70 | University of Delaware → Lerner College of Business and Economics, Newark, Delaware (United States) | 68.62 | 3 | 2.02 |
| - | University of Delaware → Lerner College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Newark, Delaware (United States) | 68.62 | 3 | 2.02 |
| 71 | Lunds Universitet → Ekonomihögskolan, Lund, Sweden | 69.40 | 8 | 2.97 |
| - | Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia | 70.35 | 2 | 0.38 |
| 71 | Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia | 70.35 | 2 | 0.38 |
| 73 | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 70.74 | 3 | 0.25 |
| 74 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Luskin School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 71.29 | 1 | 0.26 |
| - | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Luskin School of Public Affairs → Public Policy Department, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 72.30 | 1 | 0.26 |
| - | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom | 72.46 | 5 | 0.66 |
| 75 | Stanford University → Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), Stanford, California (United States) | 72.90 | 1 | 0.46 |
| 76 | Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy | 74.24 | 5 | 0.69 |
| - | Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Amsterdam School of Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 74.30 | 7 | 2.04 |
| 77 | University of Washington → Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, Seattle, Washington (United States) | 74.51 | 1 | 0.41 |
| - | Lunds Universitet → Ekonomihögskolan → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Lund, Sweden | 74.55 | 6 | 1.62 |
| 78 | Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 74.67 | 4 | 1.38 |
| 79 | Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 75.30 | 5 | 0.42 |
| 80 | Stockholms Universitet → Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholm, Sweden | 77.61 | 4 | 1.42 |
| 81 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 77.88 | 13 | 4.60 |
| 82 | Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States) | 77.95 | 3 | 0.51 |
| 83 | University of Florida → Economics Department, Gainesville, Florida (United States) | 78.73 | 2 | 1.17 |
| 84 | Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States) | 79.26 | 3 | 0.95 |
| 85 | Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom | 82.41 | 7 | 0.49 |
| 86 | University of Michigan → Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) | 82.41 | 2 | 1.27 |
| - | Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom | 85.66 | 5 | 0.46 |
| 87 | Edith Cowan University → School of Business, Perth, Australia | 87.29 | 1 | 0.45 |
| - | Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 87.91 | 2 | 0.19 |
| - | Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States) | 88.40 | 1 | 0.32 |
| 88 | George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 89.03 | 4 | 0.87 |
| 89 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands | 89.48 | 6 | 1.15 |
| 90 | Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands | 89.64 | 10 | 1.28 |
| 91 | Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 89.68 | 1 | 0.70 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | 90.77 | 6 | 0.71 |
| 92 | Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada | 91.01 | 4 | 1.65 |
| 93 | University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States) | 91.26 | 1 | 0.33 |
| 94 | Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway | 92.35 | 2 | 0.46 |
| - | Lancaster University → Management School → Department of Economics, Lancaster, United Kingdom | 92.69 | 4 | 0.83 |
| 94 | Lancaster University → Management School, Lancaster, United Kingdom | 92.69 | 4 | 0.83 |