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

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom1303.53
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.00561.41
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom3181.31
3University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)3.2050.97
4Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg3.721864.48
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg4.731843.58
5Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)5.6561.44
6Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland6.97204.65
7Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)7.5540.48
8University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)7.6960.43
9University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom8.3040.25
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany9.05154.26
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland10.06101.83
11Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)10.2760.74
12Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)14.0930.28
13Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany14.2771.65
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom14.5160.42
14University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.0831.09
15University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)15.1710.22
16University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.8431.69
17Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands15.8782.37
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.2710.44
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)19.0340.83
17Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)19.0340.83
19Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)19.4630.63
20University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada21.8030.43
21Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom21.97520.83
22Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)22.4510.17
23ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany22.7281.39
24Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)23.1340.75
25Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany24.4851.12
26Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)24.8340.48
27Paris School of Economics, Paris, France25.9860.57
28Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia27.2771.46
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia30.4061.44
29University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom30.7171.02
30Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany31.08102.53
31Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy31.7250.26
32Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia32.0910.06
33Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)32.1510.45
34University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom34.3220.60
35Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France35.5620.23
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands36.1241.86
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France36.6020.23
36University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada37.2540.85
37Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)38.1030.76
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom39.4720.75
38University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom39.4961.14
39Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)39.7550.40
40CESifo, München, Germany40.04450.78
41Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain40.7261.26
42Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)41.2050.31
-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany41.5031.00
43Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway43.4381.27
44Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark43.4781.43
45Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands43.6490.95
46Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)43.7430.24
47Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom44.2890.58
48University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)44.6510.50
49Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy45.7452.03
50Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)47.4430.16
51University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom47.5530.26
52University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada48.9430.69
53Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)50.6340.72
54Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)50.8140.63
-Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)51.7030.47
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom54.1220.27
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)54.2530.57
55Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)55.5730.52
56World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)56.2850.93
57University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada56.4231.09
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain56.7730.41
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)57.0820.39
58Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)57.3510.18
59Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy58.2861.01
60University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)58.3510.46
61Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)59.3030.54
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom59.3820.16
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom59.9020.18
-Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)61.0110.05
62University of Georgia → Terry College of Business, Athens, Georgia (United States)61.4420.78
-University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)61.4420.78
63Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland61.8230.90
64Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden62.8770.83
65University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom64.8941.13
66Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)64.9210.17
67Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)65.9410.42
68Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany66.7741.60
69University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)67.8120.50
70Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany67.9661.40
71Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)68.6810.16
72Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain69.1030.53
73George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)69.3010.11
74Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria69.4772.32
-Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom69.7870.28
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg70.7040.90
-Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Strategy Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)70.8120.46
75Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy74.2050.48
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway74.6040.75
76Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany76.0021.33

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
1.68
2John van Reenen
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
3.67
3James J. Heckman
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
4.65
4David E. Card4.89
5Edward Lazear5.29
6John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.57
7Richard B. Freeman9.08
8Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
9.53
9Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.33
10Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
11.74
11Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell)
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
13.53
12Erik Brynjolfsson14.17
13John S. Heywood
University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)
15.31
14Oriana 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
16.94
15David B. Audretsch
Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)
16.99
16Alex Bryson
University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
17.07
17Eric Hanushek (Eric Hanusek)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.08
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)
18.99
19Flavio Cunha
Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
19.79
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)
21.55
21David Deming
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
23.40
22Ludger Woessmann
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
24.06
23Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
24.37
24Raffaella Sadun24.66
25Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
26.26
26Jorn-Steffen Pischke26.85
27Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
27.15
28Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
28.76
29Mark Huggett
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
29.40
30Kathryn Shaw
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
29.74
31Oded Galor
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
30.67
32Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
35.48
33Ron Kaniel
University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)
35.69
34Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
36.39
35Costas Meghir
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
37.48
36Jean-Marc Robin
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
41.61
37Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
43.45
38Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
43.67
39W. Bentley Macleod
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
43.92
40Christian 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
44.26
41Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
44.92
42Gary Charness45.14
43Mirjam van Praag (Celine Mirjam van Praag)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
46.63
44Ron S. Jarmin
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
48.27
45David Autor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
48.86
46Lawrence Kahn49.21
47Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
49.23
48Victor Chaim Lavy
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
50.54
49Paul Oyer51.65
50Mitchell Harvey Hoffman
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
52.06
51David Jacob Cooper
Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)
53.60
52Peter Kuhn54.20
53Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
55.56
54Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
55.73
55Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
56.67
56Robert Dur
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
56.73
57Marco Pagano
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy
57.24
58Roland Benabou57.68
59Dirk Sliwka
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
57.80
60Gordon M. Phillips
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
57.96
61Klaus M. Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
60.80
62Patrick Kline
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
62.36
63Chris M. Robinson
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
64.99
64Joerg Baten
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany
65.28
65Uschi Backes-Gellner
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
66.50
66David Huffman
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
66.62
67Michael Kosfeld
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
67.49
68Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
67.60
69Ghazala Azmat68.70
70Dirk Jenter
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
68.73
71Alma Cohen70.15
72Lucia Smith Foster
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
71.42
73Lisa B. Kahn
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
72.99
74Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
73.44
75Isaac Ehrlich75.16
76Stefano DellaVigna
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
76.20
77Fatih Guvenen
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
77.64
78Melvyn Glyn Coles
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
77.68
79Jere Richard Behrman
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
79.37
80Paola Sapienza
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
79.64
81Thomas Zwick
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Würzburg, Germany
80.01
82V. Joseph Hotz
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
80.61
83Simon Gächter (Simon Gaechter)
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom
82.13
84Maitreesh Ghatak
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
82.29
85Jesse Rothstein82.64
86Armin Falk
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
85.19
87Barbara Petrongolo
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
85.21
88Christopher Cornwell
University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)
87.59
89Ana Rute Cardoso
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
88.73
90Matthew Neidell
Columbia University → Mailman School of Public Health → Department of Health Policy and Management, New York City, New York (United States)
91.95
91Jan van Ours
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
92.53
92Andreas Leibbrandt
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
94.67
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