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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Human Capital and Human Resource Management, as of June 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom1.00303.54
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2551.41
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom3.00181.31
3University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)3.2350.97
4Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg3.641854.63
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg4.641833.72
5Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)5.8361.44
6Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland6.67204.65
7Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)7.5340.48
8University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)7.9760.43
9University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom7.9940.26
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany8.92154.26
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland9.81101.83
11Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)10.6760.73
12Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)13.9630.28
13Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany14.1671.65
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom14.2560.42
14University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.3531.12
15Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands15.3782.36
16University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)15.5210.22
17University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.8131.69
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.3010.44
18Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.4841.08
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.4841.08
19Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)19.4530.63
20Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom22.11530.84
21ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany22.1481.39
22University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada22.4330.43
23Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)22.9710.17
24Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)22.9840.75
25Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany24.0451.12
26Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)24.9240.48
27Paris School of Economics, Paris, France26.0360.57
28Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia26.5071.41
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia29.8661.39
29Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany29.98102.52
30University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom30.1371.03
31Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia31.0610.06
32University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom31.8520.60
33Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy32.0450.26
34Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)32.5510.45
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands36.2241.85
35Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France36.2820.23
36University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada36.6840.85
37Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)36.7730.77
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France37.3220.23
38University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom38.8261.14
39Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands39.0390.95
40Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)39.5950.32
41Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)40.1650.40
42CESifo, München, Germany40.18450.78
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom40.3820.75
-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany40.5731.00
43Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark40.8481.44
44Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain42.0261.26
45Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway42.0581.29
46Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)43.7630.24
47University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)43.7810.50
48Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom44.3490.58
49Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy44.7552.04
50University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom45.5130.26
51University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)48.0710.46
52Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)48.1730.16
53University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada48.9230.69
54Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)50.0840.63
55Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)50.2140.72
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)51.4530.81
-Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)51.5030.47
56Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy52.3061.02
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom52.9520.27
57Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)54.7410.19
58Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)55.5730.52
59World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)56.2050.93
60University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada56.3431.08
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)56.5820.40
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom57.1320.18
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain57.7930.41
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom58.9820.16
61Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland59.2030.90
-Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)59.6910.05
62Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)59.8730.54
63University of Georgia → Terry College of Business, Athens, Georgia (United States)62.1520.78
-University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)62.1520.78
64Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany62.6341.59
65Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria63.6872.32
66Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)64.3910.17
67Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany64.4621.34
68University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom64.5741.13
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg64.8440.90
69Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)65.0510.42
70University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)66.0120.50
71Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany66.3761.39
72Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain67.6130.52
73Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)68.9410.16
-Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Strategy Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)69.1820.47
74George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)69.2810.11
-Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom69.6270.28
75Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy72.5450.49
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway72.6640.75
76Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom74.8720.33

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
2.12
2John van Reenen
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
3.69
3James J. Heckman
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.05
4Edward Lazear5.09
5David E. Card5.17
6John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.93
7Richard B. Freeman8.93
8Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
9.97
9Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.80
10Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
12.21
11Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell)
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
12.64
12Erik Brynjolfsson13.33
13Oriana Bandiera
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom
14.90
14Alex Bryson
University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
16.95
15David B. Audretsch
Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)
17.12
16Eric Hanushek (Eric Hanusek)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.18
17John S. Heywood
University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)
17.28
18Andrea Prat
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
17.95
19Flavio Cunha
Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
18.18
20Zoltan J. Acs
London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom
George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)
21.08
21David Deming
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
21.15
22Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
22.34
23Ludger Woessmann
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
22.89
24Raffaella Sadun23.99
25Jorn-Steffen Pischke24.78
26Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
26.43
27Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
26.77
28Mark Huggett
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
27.00
29Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
29.43
30Oded Galor
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
30.50
31Kathryn Shaw
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
30.64
32Ron Kaniel
University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)
32.27
33Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
34.73
34Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
35.36
35Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
35.86
36Costas Meghir
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
36.19
37Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
36.64
38Joerg Baten
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany
37.12
39Christian Dustmann
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
University College London (UCL) → Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), London, United Kingdom
39.06
40W. Bentley Macleod
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
39.11
41Jean-Marc Robin
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
41.15
42Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
41.74
43Gary Charness42.74
44Mirjam van Praag (Celine Mirjam van Praag)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
44.15
45Ron S. Jarmin
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
44.31
46Victor Chaim Lavy
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
46.73
47David Autor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
46.74
48Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
47.22
49Paul Oyer48.71
50Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
48.83
51Uschi Backes-Gellner
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
50.32
52Robert Dur
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
50.36
53Peter Kuhn50.45
54Lawrence Kahn51.22
55Mitchell Harvey Hoffman
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
51.62
56David Jacob Cooper
Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)
52.10
57Klaus M. Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
52.86
58Gordon M. Phillips
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
53.05
59Andries de Grip
Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands
53.32
60Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
53.47
61Uwe Jirjahn
Universität Trier → Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Trier, Germany
54.67
62Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
54.83
63Roland Benabou55.32
64Marco Pagano
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy
55.67
65Dirk Sliwka
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
57.60
66Chris M. Robinson
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
60.40
67Patrick Kline
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
62.55
68Dirk Jenter
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
63.04
69Thomas Zwick
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Würzburg, Germany
63.56
70David Huffman
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
63.64
71Michael Kosfeld
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
64.99
72Matthias Kräkel (Matthias Kraekel)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Bonn, Germany
65.63
73Isaac Ehrlich65.84
74Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
66.85
75Ghazala Azmat67.47
76Lucia Smith Foster
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
67.80
77Alma Cohen68.10
78Lisa B. Kahn
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
69.37
79Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
69.79
80Daniele Checchi
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
71.62
81Jere Richard Behrman
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
73.06
82Stefano DellaVigna
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
73.34
83Simon Gächter (Simon Gaechter)
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom
73.59
84Fatih Guvenen
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
74.20
85Jesse Rothstein74.55
86Melvyn Glyn Coles
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
76.14
87Frances Stewart
Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom
77.47
88Paola Sapienza
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
78.16
89Keith A. Bender
University of Aberdeen → Department of Economics, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
78.98
90Maitreesh Ghatak
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
79.16
91Jan van Ours
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
79.47
92Takao Kato
Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)
80.26
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