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

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For Development, these are 1119 institutions and 1894 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	1.00	144	57.92
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	2	59	22.78
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.37	9	1.97
3	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.88	59	2.94
4	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	3.65	27	4.86
5	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	5.23	12	3.17
6	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	6.29	66	21.04
7	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	6.38	9	1.90
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	6.61	12	2.44
8	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.38	20	2.12
9	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	8.94	28	6.05
10	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.97	3	0.66
11	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	11.69	3	0.75
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	12.11	4	1.18
12	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	12.61	55	1.36
13	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	12.88	5	1.00
14	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.08	6	1.32
15	Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	14.66	23	8.79
16	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.70	5	1.66
17	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	15.75	3	0.79
18	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	18.18	20	2.32
19	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	18.74	136	5.85
20	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	18.93	10	1.42
21	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	21.15	19	5.43
22	Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	21.58	5	1.23
23	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	21.87	6	2.67
24	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	22.00	16	4.24
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	25.23	134	5.28
25	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	25.50	2	0.19
26	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	28.90	4	1.05
27	Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	29.07	3	0.70
28	Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	30.13	8	1.64
29	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	30.37	8	1.26
-	International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	30.73	4	1.23
30	Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	31.11	2	0.63
31	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	31.26	3	0.68
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	31.63	11	1.69
32	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	32.70	4	0.86
33	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	32.77	2	0.60
34	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	34.28	4	0.57
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	34.55	10	2.15
35	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	34.67	4	1.17
36	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	34.80	3	0.27
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	35.38	4	0.25
37	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	35.39	4	1.48
38	University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	38.55	1	0.30
39	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	39.69	3	1.01
40	European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	40.65	3	0.33
41	Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	41.39	11	3.49
42	Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	41.89	3	0.33
43	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	43.37	7	1.28
44	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	43.84	5	0.88
45	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	44.07	9	2.54
46	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	45.71	5	1.94
47	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	45.94	1	0.11
48	Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	46.82	3	0.48
49	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	48.24	4	1.57
-	World Bank Group → International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	48.67	14	6.12
50	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	49.14	1	0.14
51	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	50.34	5	1.13
52	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden	50.64	8	3.56
-	Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	50.77	1	0.38
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research → Data Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	51.81	7	3.19
53	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	52.41	3	0.50
54	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	52.46	6	3.00
55	New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	52.65	2	0.70
56	Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	52.65	3	1.53
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	55.22	4	0.36
57	United Nations → Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Roma, Italy	55.86	17	8.10
58	Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	55.96	10	2.83
59	Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	56.08	2	1.12
-	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	56.29	6	2.97
60	Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	57.19	5	1.69
61	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	58.08	5	0.95
-	Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.13	5	0.95
-	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	60.27	1	0.23
62	University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)	60.85	4	0.38
63	University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	60.87	6	1.59
64	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	62.70	7	1.61
65	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	64.28	3	0.81
66	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	64.35	11	2.43
67	Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	65.76	9	1.27
68	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	65.78	1	0.40
69	University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	66.82	3	1.05
70	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	67.88	10	1.57
71	Universidad Nacional de La Plata → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, La Plata, Argentina	68.14	17	4.93
72	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	68.77	17	1.51
73	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	69.84	12	1.83
74	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	70.89	3	0.16
75	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	71.41	2	0.23
76	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	72.52	2	0.92
77	Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	73.72	1	0.13
78	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	73.97	10	3.47
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	74.16	2	0.43
78	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	74.16	2	0.43
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	75.01	10	3.47
80	University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	76.15	4	2.05
81	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Göttingen, Germany	77.45	12	4.09
82	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	78.39	1	0.33
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	79.40	1	0.33
-	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	79.50	1	0.32
83	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	79.93	7	1.70
84	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	80.04	4	0.62
85	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	80.81	5	1.51
86	University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	84.58	2	0.59
-	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	85.57	5	1.50
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	85.61	2	0.15
87	Université de Genève → Geneva School of Economics and Management, Genève, Switzerland	86.20	4	0.76
88	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia	86.53	13	2.90
89	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	87.09	3	0.45
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	88.68	1	0.13
90	Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	89.99	2	0.65
91	University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)	90.22	2	0.63
-	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy → Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Canberra, Australia	91.16	7	2.41
92	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	91.71	1	0.42
93	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	92.08	4	0.42
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Banking and Finance, Caulfield, Australia	92.11	1	0.27
94	Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	92.45	1	0.23
95	Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	93.16	3	1.05
96	The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies → International Economics Section, Genève, Switzerland	93.28	6	1.05
97	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	93.66	5	0.26
-	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Department für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Göttingen, Germany	94.78	8	2.37
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	95.19	4	0.25
98	Michigan State University → College of Agriculture and Natural Resources → Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	95.64	9	2.34
99	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	96.54	3	0.76
100	Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie, Clermont-Ferrand, France	101.20	21	4.64
101	Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) → Facultad de Economía, Bogotá, Colombia	101.59	11	4.37
102	Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	101.72	1	0.55
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	102.17	1	0.64
-	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	102.40	5	0.88
-	Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie → Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France	103.34	19	4.63
103	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile	103.37	6	1.34
104	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	103.67	4	0.95
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	103.67	4	0.95
105	University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	104.19	3	1.06
106	Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	105.26	4	1.93
107	Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	105.97	1	0.11
108	Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark	106.63	2	0.56
109	Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom	106.78	4	0.89
110	University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	107.29	3	0.96
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	107.96	9	0.75
111	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)	109.13	2	0.62

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Dani Rodrik Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.56
2	Martin Ravallion †	4.04
3	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.92
4	Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.94
5	Abhijit Banerjee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.04
6	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.88
7	Angus Deaton University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	9.89
8	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	11.09
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)	11.25
10	David Malin Roodman	12.39
11	Jere Richard Behrman University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	12.95
12	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	13.08
13	David Mckenzie World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	13.53
14	Stephen J Turnovsky University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	15.02
15	Oded Galor Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	17.87
16	Aart Kraay World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	18.96
17	Simon Johnson	19.88
18	Michael Kremer University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	19.88
19	Stephen Knack †	20.87
20	David Weil Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	21.16
21	Pranab K. Bardhan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	21.47
22	Ross Levine Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	22.03
23	Peter Howitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	22.33
24	Rafael La Porta National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	22.49
25	Marcel A Fafchamps Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	22.90
26	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	23.51
27	Xavier Sala-i-Martin Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	24.28
28	François J. Bourguignon (Francois J. Bourguignon) Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	24.74
29	Charles I. Jones Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	24.83
30	T. Paul Schultz Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	26.71
31	David Dollar †	28.68
32	Dilip Mookherjee Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	30.07
33	Stephen J. Brown New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	31.32
34	Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	31.49
35	Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	31.92
36	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	33.14
37	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	33.18
38	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)	33.78
39	Justin Yifu Lin Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	33.83
40	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)	37.02
41	Dean Karlan Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	39.52
42	Klaus W. Deininger World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	41.37
43	Thorsten Beck European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	41.39
44	Stephan Klasen †	42.09
45	Jakob Svensson Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	42.31
46	Stefan Dercon Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	43.98
47	Robert C. Feenstra University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	45.31
48	Christopher Udry Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	46.83
49	John Hoddinott Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	48.62
50	Edward Andrew Miguel University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	49.53
51	Scott Rozelle Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	49.60
52	James Levinsohn	49.84
53	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	50.08
54	Alberto Alesina †	50.53
55	Orazio Attanasio University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	51.01
56	Anne Case	51.43
57	Robert M. Townsend University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	53.65
58	Jonathan Temple †	54.14
59	Lant Pritchett Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	56.14
60	Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	56.69
61	Norman V. Loayza World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.80
62	Jonathan Morduch New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	57.89
63	Friedrich Georg Schneider Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	58.47
64	Petia Topalova International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	58.82
65	Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	60.01
66	Boyan Jovanovic New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	60.61
67	Petra Elisabeth Todd University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	62.99
68	Elias Papaioannou London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	63.74
69	Pete Klenow Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	64.96
70	Arvind Subramanian Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	65.66
71	Howard White Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi, India	66.27
72	Axel Dreher Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	68.51
73	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)	70.14
74	Edward C. Prescott †	71.57
75	Richard H. Adams, Jr. World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	73.18
76	Nathan Nunn University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	73.35
77	Sanjaya Lall †	73.84
78	Paul William Glewwe University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	74.78
79	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)	76.78
80	John Strauss University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	76.89
81	Daniel Kaufmann Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	79.35
82	Emmanuel Skoufias World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	80.98
83	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	81.32
84	Antonio Ciccone Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	81.42
85	Nina Pavcnik Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	81.52
86	Matin Qaim Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Institut für Lebensmittel und Ressourcenökonomik, Bonn, Germany	81.98
87	Adam Wagstaff †	84.04
88	Finn Tarp Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	85.14
89	Francesco Caselli London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	86.59
90	Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	88.18
91	John Gibson University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	88.83
92	Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg	89.21
93	Agnes Reynes Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	89.94
94	Dominique van de Walle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	91.30
95	Pascaline Dupas Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	92.21
96	Shang-Jin Wei Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	92.59
97	Pedro Carneiro University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	92.65
98	Karthik Muralidharan University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	92.99
99	Pierre-Richard Agénor (Pierre-Richard Agenor) University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	96.36
100	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)	96.65
101	David Bloom Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	97.37
102	Jorge Leonardo Rodriguez-Arenas Sr. (Jorge Leonardo Rodriguez-Arenas)	98.37
103	William Goetzmann Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	99.10
104	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)	99.60
105	Eliana La Ferrara	100.97
106	Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	101.06
107	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	101.69
108	Frances Stewart Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	101.83
109	Norbert Schady World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	102.09
110	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	104.79
111	Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	105.00
112	Jeffrey Gale Williamson	105.28
113	Shahidur Rahman Khandker International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	105.34
114	Duncan Thomas Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	107.09
115	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	107.62
116	Robin Burgess London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	108.62
117	Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	109.05
118	Bronwyn H Hall University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	109.78
119	Deon Filmer World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	109.97
120	Francis John Teal Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	113.83
121	Anthony J. Venables Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	114.91
122	Nancy Qian Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	115.91
123	Oliver Morrissey University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham, United Kingdom	117.47
124	Andrew Foster Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	117.54
125	Arne Bigsten Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	117.63
126	Alberto Chong Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	117.94
127	Mark M. Pitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	118.29
128	Robert Cull World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	119.76
129	Loren Brandt University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	121.00
130	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	122.90
131	Andrea Otero-Cortes Banco de la Republica de Colombia → Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena, Colombia	123.47
132	David Levine University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	123.74
133	Peter Frederik Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	125.41
134	Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Ontwikkelings Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	125.85
135	John Knight †	126.07
136	Daniel Cohen †	126.27
137	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	126.98
138	Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	128.30
139	Seema Jayachandran Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	130.73
140	Joseph Zeira Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	131.66
141	Stijn Claessens Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	131.78
142	Robert Owen Mendelsohn Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	132.51
143	Xavier Gine World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	133.06
144	Christopher Woodruff Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	134.19
145	John Whalley University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	134.58
146	Omer Moav University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	134.81
147	Quentin Wodon	134.93
148	Benjamin Kaylor Davis United Nations → Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Roma, Italy	135.14
149	Shigeyuki Hamori Yamato University → Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Suita, Japan	135.36
150	Jonathan Robinson University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	135.59
151	Lori Beaman	135.83
152	Kathleen Beegle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	138.66
153	Kenneth Sokoloff †	138.88
154	Robert H. Bates	139.41
155	James R. Tybout National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)	140.41
156	Sonia Bhalotra University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	143.59
157	David Canning Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	143.64
158	Diego Restuccia University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	143.90
159	Keijiro Otsuka Asian Development Bank → Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan	145.33
160	Hongbin Li Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	147.95
161	Hanan Jacoby World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	148.10
162	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	148.16
163	Gary S. Fields	148.97
164	Peter George Warr Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy → Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Canberra, Australia	149.43
165	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)	150.29
166	陈少华 (Shaohua Chen) Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	150.78
167	Augustin Fosu University of Ghana → Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Legon, Ghana	151.58
168	Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	155.06
169	Ann E. Harrison University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	155.13
170	Simeon Djankov London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	156.01
171	William F. Maloney World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	158.29
172	Wolfgang Keller	158.83
173	Eswar Prasad Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	159.85
174	Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Banco de la Republica de Colombia → Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena, Colombia	160.40
175	Paul Segerstrom Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	161.01
176	Jun Qian Shanghai Jiao Tong University → Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai, China	161.09
177	Enrico Spolaore Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	161.23
178	Shenggen Fan China Agricultural University → College of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	161.34
179	Douglas Gollin Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	163.64
180	Thorvaldur Gylfason	164.29
181	Michael A. Clemens Johns Hopkins University → School of Government and Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	164.68
182	Franklin Allen Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	165.78
183	Joshua D Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	166.91
184	Chris Papageorgiou International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	168.89
185	Lakshmi Iyer University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	169.96
186	Paul Mosley †	170.32
187	Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics (LSE) → International Inequalities Institute, London, United Kingdom	171.07
188	M Niaz Asadullah University of Dhaka → Department of Economics, Dhaka, Bangladesh	171.36
189	James Feyrer Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	172.03

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