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

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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)1.156659.13
2[2]University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)1.758573.69
3[3]Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)3.155143.37
4[4]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)3.845345.24
5[5]University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)5.453430.03
6[6]Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)5.495654.27
7[7]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)7.064437.69
-[-]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)7.241815.11
8[8]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)8.421714.86
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)8.933533.28
9[9]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)9.285246.91
10[10]University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)9.643024.24
-[-]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)10.7297.10
11[11]Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)10.7852.74
-[-]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)10.861311.69
-[-]University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)11.6222
12[12]DePaul University → Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)12.551611.86
13[13]University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration, Chicago, Illinois (United States)12.78109.50
14[15]Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)14.3954.80
-[-]DePaul University → Graduate School of Business → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)14.4075.67
15[14]University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.0854.44
-[-]University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.3643.50
16[17]Southern Illinois University → Economics Department, Carbondale, Illinois (United States)16.2098.99
-[-]Northwestern University → Department of Economics → Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Evanston, Illinois (United States)16.9231.06
17[16]American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)17.0221.12

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)1.458510
2[2]University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)1.486610
3[3]Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)3.135110
4[4]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)3.635310
5[5]University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)5.183410
6[6]Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)6.185610
7[7]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)6.454410
-[-]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)7.341810
8[8]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)8.201710
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)8.943510
9[9]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)9.655210
-[-]Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)9.931310
-[-]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)10.3097.10
10[10]Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)10.5152.74
11[12]University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)11.273010
12[11]Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)11.5154.80
13[13]University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)12.5854.44
-[-]University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)12.8722
14[14]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → School of Labor and Employment Relations, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)15.0743.22
-[-]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Center for Business and Public Policy, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)15.3710.86
15[17]Northeastern Illinois University → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)17.5844
16[15]American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)17.7421.12
17[18]Illinois State University → Department of Economics, Normal, Illinois (United States)18.43138.59

Top authors, all publications years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[1]James J. Heckman1.11
2[5]Raghuram G. Rajan4.29
3[2]Eugene F. Fama, Sr.5.19
4[11]Charles Manski6.62
5[4]Robert W. Vishny7.22
6[8]Lars Peter Hansen7.39
7[7]Luigi Zingales7.90
8[13]Lawrence J. Christiano8.21
9[6]Marianne Bertrand8.65
10[3]John List9.05
11[12]Richard H. Thaler11.45
12[15]James Alan Robinson11.88
13[23]Kevin M. Murphy13.20
14[17]Harald Uhlig13.52
15[16]Michael Kremer15.14
16[20]Steven N. Durlauf15.67
17[19]Steven Levitt16.86
18[9]Sendhil Mullainathan17.06
19[21]Michael Greenstone18.06
20[22]Douglas W. Diamond21.78
21[26]Lubos Pastor21.84
22[37]Roger B. Myerson22.14
23[31]Steven Neil Kaplan23.63
24[27]Chad Syverson24.02
25[29]Magne Mogstad24.06
26[41]Kiminori Matsuyama26.68
27[32]Robert Shimer26.94
28[10]Martin Eichenbaum27.88
29[36]Erik Hurst28.64
30[30]Esteban Rossi-Hansberg29.15
31[40]George-Marios Angeletos29.43
32[38]Stefan Nagel29.99
33[39]Charles L. Evans30.42
34[66]Patric H. Hendershott31.87
35[44]George M. Constantinides31.87
36[81]Ali M. Kutan35.64
37[43]Ufuk Akcigit36.24
38[25]Dean Karlan37.10
39[68]Daniel F. Spulber38.15
40[50]Ravi Jagannathan38.39
41[46]Greg Warren Kaplan39.71
42[49]Ali Hortacsu40.02
43[33]Paola Sapienza41.23
44[28]Anil Kashyap41.77
45[42]Christian Hansen42.36
46[47]Christopher Udry44.18
47[95]Austan Goolsbee44.74
48[54]Giorgio Primiceri47.39
49[67]Tom Doan47.42
50[63]Guido Lorenzoni49.90
51[79]Ray Ball50.91
52[65]Mikhail Golosov52.31
53[72]Jonas Fisher52.53
54[62]Milton Harris53.39
55[59]Christian Leuz53.97
56[70]Asher Wolinsky54.00
57[58]Robert Barsky56.04
58[60]Benjamin F. Jones56.51
59[73]Robert H. Topel56.83
60[69]Brent Neiman57.80
61[76]Jens Ludwig58.45
62[71]Nancy Stokey59.09
63[78]Jeffrey Robert Brown60.42
64[74]Matthew J. Notowidigdo60.50
65[82]Robert Kaestner61.60
66[130]Scott H. Irwin62.13
67[45]Bruce D. Meyer62.21
68[24]Robert M. Townsend62.70
69[109]Pradeep K. Chintagunta63.81
70[89]Sam Peltzman64.76
71[14]Robert J. Gordon65.92
72[34]Mitchell Petersen66.04
73[90]David Evans68.86
74[136]Sajal Lahiri69.31
75[87]Philip J. Reny69.78
76[105]Dennis W. Carlton70.23
77[88]Dan Black71.66
78[75]Aviv Nevo71.68
79[97]Dimitris Papanikolaou71.85
80[103]Ehud Kalai71.90
81[98]Efraim Benmelech75.19
82[139]John F. McDonald75.39
83[18]Sergio Rebelo75.46
84[94]Daniel G. Sullivan75.80
85[84]Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.75.97
86[99]Alessandro Pavan76.04
87[106]Konstantin Sonin76.56
88[92]Leonardo Bursztyn79.07
89[100]Richard Hornbeck79.59
90[96]Roger Koenker80.10
91[127]Daniel McMillen80.67
92[108]Dacheng Xiu81.31
93[102]Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)81.62
94[125]Firouz Gahvari83.43
95[51]Joel Mokyr83.67
96[53]Don Fullerton83.98
97[173]Scott William Hegerty84.02
98[107]Janice Eberly84.40
99[104]Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi84.52
100[48]Casey Mulligan84.83
101[116]Daniel Aaronson84.92
102[112]Jing Cynthia Wu85.55
103[35]Torben G. Andersen86.27
104[113]Francois Gourio89.81
105[56]Roy Wada90.13
106[111]Constantine Nicholas Yannelis90.30
107[77]Fernando Alvarez90.47
108[86]Nancy Qian91.37
109[121]David Dranove93.02
110[154]Georgios Karras93.97
111[57]Amir Sufi95.42
112[187]Richard Grabowski95.85
113[114]Joseph Vavra96.04
114[170]Rik Hafer96.82
115[80]Charles Milton Kahn97.20
116[120]Mikkel Plagborg-Moller97.44
117[146]Erik Dietzenbacher98.26
118[147]Riza Demirer100.50
119[123]Azeem M. Shaikh101.23
120[133]George G. Pennacchi101.79
121[122]Steven G. Rivkin103.17
122[119]Jonathan Guryan103.41
123[131]Mark Mitchell105.31
124[117]Derek Neal106.47
125[55]Dan Bernhardt106.80
126[184]Philip Garcia107.30
127[61]Eddie Dekel107.65
128[134]Robert Korajczyk108.19
129[128]Joshua D. Gottlieb109.50
130[85]Geoffrey J. D. Hewings110.96
131[168]Marcelo C. Medeiros111.62
132[137]Lars A Stole112.50
133[129]Devin Pope112.63
134[132]Murillo Campello113.54
135[135]Andrea Frazzini114.25
136[140]Stavros Panageas116.20
137[235]Gary Donald Schnitkey116.26
138[144]Christopher Blattman120.89
139[83]Tomas Philipson121.06
140[169]Francois Velde121.55
141[150]Matthew Rognlie121.93
142[151]David Besanko123.08
143[155]Jing Zhang124.57
144[149]Bruno H. Strulovici125.69
145[145]Elie Tamer128.42
146[152]Jeffrey Ely129.36
147[141]Joel L. Horowitz129.55
148[148]Tatyana Deryugina131.28
149[180]Deirdre N. McCloskey131.93
150[160]Raaj Kumar Sah132.34
151[159]Hannes Schwandt132.90
152[158]Felix Tintelnot134.06
153[161]Koichiro Ito134.38
154[224]Bryan C. McCannon135.30
155[186]Madhu Khanna135.53
156[162]Jason Faberman135.95
157[93]Robert H. Porter135.97
158[156]Ivan Alexis Canay137.24

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[2]Magne Mogstad2.43
2[5]Brent Neiman5.78
3[7]Greg Warren Kaplan6.80
4[4]Ufuk Akcigit6.82
5[1]John List8.00
6[17]Dacheng Xiu8.05
7[14]Mikkel Plagborg-Moller8.49
8[3]James J. Heckman8.92
9[18]Chad Syverson10.29
10[10]Marianne Bertrand10.70
11[16]Constantine Nicholas Yannelis10.84
12[19]Stefan Nagel12.12
13[15]Michael Greenstone13.01
14[28]Lubos Pastor14.04
15[13]Ali Hortacsu14.67
16[29]Riza Demirer15.45
17[9]George-Marios Angeletos15.47
18[22]Harald Uhlig15.47
19[31]Charles Manski15.91
20[21]Guido Lorenzoni16.81
21[6]Sendhil Mullainathan17.06
22[12]Esteban Rossi-Hansberg18.02
23[11]Matthew J. Notowidigdo18.06
24[26]Christian Hansen18.15
25[27]Peter Nathan Ganong19.22
26[24]Erik Hurst20.64
27[32]Matthew Rognlie20.64
28[40]Diego Raoul Känzig (Diego Raoul Kaenzig)26.59
29[34]Leonardo Bursztyn27.84
30[37]Kilian Huber30.23
31[35]Joseph Vavra31.16
32[36]Felix Tintelnot31.28
33[47]Dimitris Papanikolaou32.61
34[38]Jens Ludwig32.82
35[63]Austan Goolsbee33.33
36[51]Konstantin Sonin34.00
37[8]Tom Doan34.39
38[23]Dean Karlan35.51
39[49]Alexander W Bartik (Alexander Wickman Bartik)38.54
40[70]Ali M. Kutan38.85
41[50]Hannes Schwandt38.93
42[43]Thibaut Lamadon39.63
43[48]Efraim Benmelech39.64
44[44]Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi40.32
45[53]Benjamin F. Jones40.35
46[54]Alexander Torgovitsky41.62
47[42]Jack Mountjoy43.97
48[20]Martin Eichenbaum45.20
49[59]Niels Gormsen45.33
50[57]Tatyana Deryugina45.45
51[72]Azeem M. Shaikh46.60
52[66]Jiekun Huang47.32
53[60]David P Molitor47.72
54[71]W Walker Hanlon47.89
55[58]Luigi Zingales48.17
56[45]Christopher Udry48.94
57[73]Raghuram G. Rajan49.09
58[62]Christian Leuz49.74
59[56]Giorgio Primiceri50.30
60[128]Bryan C. McCannon50.77
61[61]Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)52.67
62[77]Eliza Forsythe55.14
63[55]Mikhail Golosov55.33
64[69]Jörg L. Spenkuch (Jorg L. Spenkuch)56.06
65[67]Robert Shimer56.36
66[88]Jing Cynthia Wu57.30
67[90]James Alan Robinson57.56
68[86]Robert Kaestner59.71
69[82]Janice Eberly60.53
70[52]Lars Peter Hansen60.54
71[119]Pradeep K. Chintagunta60.59
72[65]ManasI Deshpande60.85
73[83]Hyunseob Kim62.89
74[168]Scott William Hegerty65.37
75[109]Marcelo C. Medeiros65.62
76[127]John R. Birge67.26
77[78]Jacob A. Robbins67.62
78[85]Francois Gourio68.35
79[39]Joel Mokyr68.48
80[94]Marta Lachowska69.68
81[96]Koichiro Ito69.95
82[93]Julian Reif70.76
83[84]Alessandro Pavan70.97
84[99]Kiminori Matsuyama73.74
85[101]Lesley Jeanne Turner73.90
86[64]Michael Kremer75.00
87[87]Joshua D. Gottlieb75.10
88[97]Stavros Panageas75.57
89[95]Ivan Alexis Canay75.65
90[113]Gal Hochman76.41
91[103]Ian Louis Dew-Becker77.39
92[102]Emanuele Colonnelli79.08
93[41]Piotr Dworczak79.08
94[98]Michael Powell80.26
95[75]Nancy Qian81.42
96[105]Joel David82.08
97[111]Daniel Aaronson82.99
98[114]Benjamin M. Marx83.10
99[107]Benjamin Golub84.01
100[112]Anna Marie Costello84.15
101[108]Steven N. Durlauf84.69
102[106]Jacob Conway87.79
103[115]Nicola Bianchi88.38
104[46]Veronica Guerrieri90.46
105[125]Greg Howard90.94
106[81]Geoffrey J. D. Hewings91.68
107[143]Francois Velde92.99
108[129]Daniel F. Spulber94.56
109[91]Molly Schnell94.78
110[124]Jason Faberman95.60
111[142]Hope C. Michelson95.67
112[116]Michael Dinerstein95.71
113[117]Adam Osman98.48
114[140]Ezra Karger100.58
115[120]Richard Hornbeck101.19
116[133]Lawrence J. Christiano101.46
117[165]William Ridley101.90
118[131]Russell Weinstein103.06
119[135]Carola Frydman106.82
120[137]Anjali Adukia107.62
121[68]Damon Jones107.72
122[126]Bruno H. Strulovici108.35
123[195]Dimitrios Nikolaou108.90
124[145]Daniel Aaron Hartley109.35
125[76]Amir Sufi110.99
126[222]Richard Thomas Melstrom112.17
127[150]Luojia Hu112.19
128[151]Jing Zhang112.78
129[179]Liad Wagman112.80
130[157]Daniel Martin114.48
131[134]Richard H. Thaler115.73
132[132]Devin Pope115.92
133[110]Anil Kashyap117.03
134[162]Jorge Lemus118.05
135[154]Mark Borgschulte118.42
136[149]Filippo Mezzanotti118.65
137[171]Rebecca Taylor119.44
138[152]Mahyar Kargar121.35
139[158]Hardik A Marfatia121.87
140[148]Sean Higgins125.44
141[186]Sarah Ann Janzen126.19
142[92]C. Kirabo Jackson126.53
143[144]Ameet Morjaria127.22
144[80]Dan Bernhardt128.50
145[139]Christopher Blattman129.51
146[147]Rafael Lopes de Melo132.92
147[163]Mathias Kronlund135.60
148[176]Andrew Dillon136.26
149[122]Bruce D. Meyer136.81
150[159]Pietro Tebaldi136.97
151[191]Michael Gibbs139.58
152[146]Paola Sapienza142.30
153[237]Sajal Lahiri145.02
154[209]Sébastien Mary (Sebastien Mary)145.34
155[208]Ji Hyung Lee146.03
156[182]Robert Korajczyk149.53
157[214]Bryan Seegmiller149.68
158[161]Michael Graber149.83
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