| 1 | [1] | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 1.00 | 64 | 50.00 |
| 2 | [2] | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 2.19 | 67 | 53.51 |
| 3 | [3] | Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States) | 2.80 | 50 | 43.87 |
| 4 | [5] | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States) | 5.56 | 51 | 42.05 |
| 5 | [6] | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States) | 5.93 | 52 | 45.36 |
| 6 | [4] | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States) | 6.03 | 20 | 13.38 |
| 7 | [7] | University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 6.21 | 75 | 58.92 |
| 8 | [8] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 7.03 | 57 | 49.28 |
| 9 | [9] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 8.59 | 37 | 34.70 |
| 10 | [10] | University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States) | 9.24 | 52 | 48.06 |
| 11 | [11] | University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States) | 9.48 | 48 | 45.26 |
| 12 | [12] | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States) | 10.30 | 41 | 38.90 |
| 13 | [13] | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 13.05 | 38 | 34.11 |
| 14 | [15] | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 14.04 | 29 | 24.43 |
| 15 | [14] | University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States) | 14.11 | 46 | 40.37 |
| - | [-] | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States) | 14.84 | 33 | 28.96 |
| 16 | [16] | University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 15.29 | 25 | 21.71 |
| - | [-] | University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 17.65 | 14 | 12.21 |
| 17 | [17] | California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States) | 17.75 | 18 | 16.54 |
| 18 | [18] | University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 17.91 | 28 | 23.64 |
| 19 | [19] | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States) | 19.05 | 50 | 37.44 |
| 20 | [21] | University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States) | 20.02 | 30 | 28.39 |
| 21 | [20] | Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States) | 20.07 | 24 | 12.10 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Berkeley, California (United States) | 21.36 | 8 | 5.68 |
| - | [-] | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States) | 21.44 | 41 | 24.41 |
| 22 | [22] | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States) | 21.61 | 11 | 8.84 |
| 23 | [23] | University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States) | 22.16 | 37 | 36.34 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 23.36 | 8 | 6.50 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 24.68 | 3 | 2.47 |
| 24 | [25] | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States) | 24.82 | 13 | 10.29 |
| 25 | [24] | University of California-Davis → Graduate School of Management, Davis, California (United States) | 25.44 | 4 | 4 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics → Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Berkeley, California (United States) | 25.70 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | [26] | University of Southern California → Center for Economic and Social Research, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 26.19 | 19 | 16.15 |
| 27 | [28] | Claremont McKenna College → Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont, California (United States) | 26.52 | 26 | 24.37 |
| 28 | [27] | Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States) | 27.18 | 8 | 5.69 |
| 29 | [29] | University of California-Merced → Department of Economics, Merced, California (United States) | 28.31 | 16 | 15.90 |
| 30 | [30] | RAND, Santa Monica, California (United States) | 29.42 | 29 | 25.80 |
| 31 | [32] | Santa Clara University → Department of Economics, Santa Clara, California (United States) | 29.84 | 19 | 16.44 |
| 32 | [31] | University of California-Berkeley → Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, California (United States) | 30.72 | 10 | 6.60 |
| 33 | [33] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Luskin School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 30.88 | 6 | 4.57 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States) | 32.83 | 5 | 4.49 |
| 34 | [34] | University of Southern California → Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 34.72 | 19 | 10.11 |
| 35 | [35] | University of California-Irvine → Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine, California (United States) | 35.81 | 10 | 9.05 |
| - | [-] | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Luskin School of Public Affairs → Public Policy Department, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 36.15 | 1 | 1 |
| 36 | [36] | Claremont Graduate University → School of Politics and Economics, Claremont, California (United States) | 37.45 | 7 | 6 |
| - | [-] | Claremont Graduate University → School of Politics and Economics → Department of Economics, Claremont, California (United States) | 38.40 | 6 | 5 |
| 37 | [37] | California Polytechnic State University → Orfalea College of Business, San Luis Obispo, California (United States) | 38.44 | 15 | 15 |
| 38 | [38] | University of California-Riverside → School of Public Policy, Riverside, California (United States) | 38.59 | 6 | 6 |
| - | [-] | Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States) | 39.30 | 4 | 3 |
| - | [-] | California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences → Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science, Pasadena, California (United States) | 39.37 | 2 | 0.43 |
| 39 | [42] | Loyola Marymount University → Economics Department, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 40.68 | 11 | 9.89 |
| 40 | [40] | Pomona College → Economics Department, Claremont, California (United States) | 40.88 | 12 | 11.50 |