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

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For Development, these are 1133 institutions and 1921 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	1	147	58.98
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	2.00	60	22.50
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.25	9	1.97
3	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.95	59	2.94
4	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	3.78	28	4.78
5	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	5.21	12	3.14
6	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	6.33	9	1.91
7	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	6.61	66	20.95
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	6.75	12	2.42
8	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.35	20	2.10
9	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	8.94	3	0.66
10	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	9.37	28	6.00
11	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	11.58	3	0.75
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	12.17	4	1.18
12	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	12.82	55	1.34
13	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	12.99	6	1.67
14	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	13.74	7	1.94
15	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.96	5	1.64
16	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	15.66	3	0.79
17	Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	15.68	23	8.78
18	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	18.72	20	2.28
19	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	18.76	10	1.40
20	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	20.05	132	5.97
21	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	20.43	19	5.43
22	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	21.73	6	2.67
23	Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	22.69	5	1.22
24	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	24.31	15	4.23
25	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	25.29	2	0.18
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	27.14	129	5.14
26	Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	28.05	3	0.70
27	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	28.85	4	1.05
-	International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	30.11	4	1.23
28	Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	30.26	8	1.62
29	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	31.10	8	1.25
30	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	31.18	3	0.68
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	31.90	11	1.69
31	Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	32.71	2	0.62
32	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	32.82	2	0.60
33	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	33.75	4	0.82
34	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	34.12	3	0.27
35	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	34.17	4	1.48
36	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	34.41	4	0.57
37	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	35.24	4	1.17
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	35.46	4	0.25
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	36.99	9	2.13
38	University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	38.93	1	0.30
39	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	40.56	3	1.00
40	European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	41.28	3	0.32
41	Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	41.97	3	0.32
42	Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	42.41	12	4.49
43	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	43.17	5	0.87
44	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	44.34	7	1.27
45	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	46.18	9	2.54
46	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	46.46	1	0.11
47	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands	46.55	5	1.93
48	Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	48.29	3	0.47
49	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	48.44	1	0.14
50	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	49.94	3	1.54
51	University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	50.98	7	3.35
52	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden	51.23	9	3.82
-	World Bank Group → International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	51.39	15	6.22
-	Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	51.86	1	0.38
53	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	52.15	5	1.12
54	New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	52.87	2	0.70
55	Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	53.69	3	1.53
56	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	54.77	3	0.47
-	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	55.08	7	3.23
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research → Data Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	55.99	7	3.13
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	56.90	4	0.35
57	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.52	5	0.95
58	Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	57.66	5	1.69
59	Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	57.71	2	1.12
-	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	58.44	1	0.23
-	Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	58.57	5	0.95
60	Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.03	10	2.85
61	University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	60.89	6	1.54
62	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	61.24	10	1.36
63	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	64.39	7	1.61
64	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	64.93	1	0.40
65	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	66.26	3	0.79
66	University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	66.44	3	1.04
67	United Nations → Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Roma, Italy	66.91	18	8.32
68	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	67.41	11	2.41
69	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	68.83	17	1.51
70	Universidad Nacional de La Plata → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, La Plata, Argentina	69.99	17	4.96
71	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	70.13	3	0.16
72	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	70.82	3	1.25
73	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	71.54	2	0.22
74	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	72.17	11	1.75
75	Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	73.17	1	0.13
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	73.51	2	0.43
75	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	73.51	2	0.43
77	Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	74.10	9	1.26
78	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom	76.71	10	3.47
-	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	77.60	1	0.32
-	University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom	77.72	10	3.47
79	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	78.21	1	0.33
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	79.22	1	0.33
80	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	79.62	4	0.61
81	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	80.83	7	1.64
82	University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	80.97	4	2.05
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	82.21	3	0.20
83	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Göttingen, Germany	83.67	12	4.06
84	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	85.37	5	1.51
85	University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)	86.56	3	0.22
86	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	86.81	3	0.45
87	Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	87.00	5	1.30
88	Université de Genève → Geneva School of Economics and Management, Genève, Switzerland	88.10	4	0.76
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	88.32	1	0.13
89	Texas A&M University → Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, Texas (United States)	89.95	3	1.31
90	University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	90.04	2	0.59
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	90.36	5	0.76
91	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	90.54	1	0.42
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Banking and Finance, Caulfield, Australia	90.58	1	0.27
92	Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	90.70	2	0.65
93	University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)	90.83	2	0.63
-	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	91.21	5	1.49
94	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	93.50	4	0.42
95	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia	94.31	13	2.90
96	Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	94.62	1	0.23
97	Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	95.55	3	1.05
98	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	95.90	5	0.25
99	The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies → International Economics Section, Genève, Switzerland	97.31	6	1.03
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	97.88	4	0.24
100	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	98.61	3	0.76
-	Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy → Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Canberra, Australia	99.33	7	2.40
-	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Department für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Göttingen, Germany	99.55	8	2.34
101	Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	102.29	1	0.55
-	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	102.80	1	0.64
102	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile	105.17	6	1.34
103	Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	105.45	4	2.03
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	105.71	4	0.93
103	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	105.71	4	0.93
105	University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	106.57	3	1.06
106	Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	106.81	1	0.11
107	University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	108.04	3	0.96
108	Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) → Facultad de Economía, Bogotá, Colombia	108.12	11	4.35
-	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	108.74	5	0.88
109	Michigan State University → College of Agriculture and Natural Resources → Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	109.81	8	2.01
110	Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom	110.23	4	0.88
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	110.93	9	0.75
111	Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie, Clermont-Ferrand, France	111.76	21	4.55
112	Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark	113.46	2	0.54
113	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	114.11	5	0.77

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.32
2	Martin Ravallion †	3.44
3	Dani Rodrik Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.47
4	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.61
5	Abhijit Banerjee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.67
6	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.54
7	Angus Deaton University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	9.96
8	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	10.88
9	David Malin Roodman	11.28
10	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)	11.58
11	Jere Richard Behrman University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	13.45
12	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	14.29
13	David Mckenzie World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	14.49
14	Stephen J Turnovsky University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)	14.67
15	Oded Galor Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	16.54
16	Aart Kraay World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	19.20
17	Michael Kremer University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	19.52
18	Simon Johnson	20.45
19	Rafael La Porta National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	22.61
20	Pranab K. Bardhan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	22.68
21	Ross Levine Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	22.87
22	Stephen Knack †	23.02
23	David Weil Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	23.53
24	Peter Howitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	24.43
25	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	24.58
26	Xavier Sala-i-Martin Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	26.15
27	Marcel A Fafchamps Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	26.72
28	Charles I. Jones Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	27.23
29	François J. Bourguignon (Francois J. Bourguignon) Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	29.09
30	David Dollar †	29.12
31	T. Paul Schultz Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	29.21
32	Stephen J. Brown New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	32.09
33	Dilip Mookherjee Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	32.52
34	Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	32.61
35	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	33.02
36	Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	33.60
37	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)	35.26
38	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	36.75
39	Justin Yifu Lin Peking University → China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, China	39.28
40	Jakob Svensson Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	41.35
41	Thorsten Beck European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	44.41
42	Dean Karlan Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	44.58
43	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)	44.71
44	Klaus W. Deininger World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	45.19
45	Robert C. Feenstra University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	46.73
46	Stefan Dercon Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	48.49
47	Edward Andrew Miguel University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	48.75
48	Christopher Udry Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	49.81
49	Alberto Alesina †	50.64
50	Stephan Klasen †	51.03
51	Orazio Attanasio University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	51.55
52	James Levinsohn	51.80
53	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	53.71
54	Anne Case	54.66
55	John Hoddinott Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	57.49
56	Jonathan Morduch New York University (NYU) → Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York (United States)	58.42
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)	58.82
58	Lant Pritchett Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	59.23
59	Petia Topalova International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.63
60	Boyan Jovanovic New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	62.51
61	Petra Elisabeth Todd University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	63.78
62	Norman V. Loayza World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	64.59
63	Jonathan Temple †	67.52
64	Axel Dreher Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	69.05
65	Pete Klenow Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	70.67
66	Elias Papaioannou London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	71.69
67	Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	73.62
68	Friedrich Georg Schneider Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	73.66
69	Arvind Subramanian Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	74.13
70	Nathan Nunn University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	74.34
71	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)	75.54
72	John Strauss University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	76.43
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)	78.54
74	Paul William Glewwe University of Minnesota-St. Paul → College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences → Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)	80.50
75	Jeffrey Gale Williamson †	80.87
76	Antonio Ciccone Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	81.63
77	Edward C. Prescott †	82.19
78	Nina Pavcnik Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	82.80
79	Emmanuel Skoufias World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	84.31
80	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	84.90
81	Daniel Kaufmann Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	86.56
82	Adam Wagstaff †	88.82
83	Francesco Caselli London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	89.60
84	Richard H. Adams, Jr. World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	90.64
85	Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg	90.68
86	Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	92.49
87	Shang-Jin Wei Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	92.59
88	Scott Rozelle Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	92.65
89	Pedro Carneiro University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	99.87
90	Eliana La Ferrara	99.87
91	Pascaline Dupas Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	102.50
92	Dominique van de Walle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	102.57
93	Howard White Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi, India	102.65
94	Norbert Schady World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	104.01
95	Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	105.83
96	Karthik Muralidharan University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	105.98
97	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)	106.28
98	William Goetzmann Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	107.30
99	Matin Qaim Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Institut für Lebensmittel und Ressourcenökonomik, Bonn, Germany	107.38
100	Sanjaya Lall †	107.45
101	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	108.19
102	Bronwyn H Hall University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	108.41
103	John Gibson University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	108.90
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)	108.98
105	Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	109.01
106	David Bloom Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	109.89
107	Duncan Thomas Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	110.40
108	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	110.65
109	Robin Burgess London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	111.47
110	Nancy Qian Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	114.18
111	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	114.55
112	Finn Tarp Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut → Development Economics Research Group - DERG, København, Denmark	114.92
113	Deon Filmer World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	117.56
114	Francis John Teal Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom	117.64
115	Agnes Reynes Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	118.56
116	Loren Brandt University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	118.72
117	Pierre-Richard Agénor (Pierre-Richard Agenor) University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	119.69
118	Shahidur Rahman Khandker International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	121.71
119	Mark M. Pitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	122.18
120	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	123.44
121	Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	123.97
122	Robert Cull World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	124.47
123	Anthony J. Venables Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	125.16
124	Alberto Chong Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	128.52
125	David Levine University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	129.16
126	Andrew Foster Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	132.13
127	Peter Frederik Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	132.89
128	Jonathan Robinson University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	135.44
129	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	135.48
130	Robert Owen Mendelsohn Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	136.67
131	Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Ontwikkelings Economie, Amsterdam, Netherlands	137.62
132	Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	138.48
133	Christopher Woodruff Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	141.38
134	Joseph Zeira Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	141.94
135	Omer Moav University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	142.29
136	Xavier Gine World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	145.14
137	Seema Jayachandran Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	145.42
138	James R. Tybout National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)	146.94
139	Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	147.55
140	Kenneth Sokoloff †	147.65
141	Stijn Claessens Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	147.68
142	David Canning Harvard University → Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health → Department of Global Health and Population, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	148.98
143	John Whalley University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	149.40
144	Lori Beaman	149.76
145	John Knight †	151.88
146	Daniel Cohen †	152.53
147	Sonia Bhalotra University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	152.94
148	Diego Restuccia University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	153.55
149	Simeon Djankov London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	156.72
150	陈少华 (Shaohua Chen) Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	157.36
151	Hanan Jacoby World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	157.71
152	Kathleen Beegle World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	158.87
153	Robert H. Bates	159.60
154	Michael Greenstone University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	159.89
155	Hongbin Li Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	163.10
156	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	163.28
157	Franklin Allen Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	164.30
158	Wolfgang Keller	165.11
159	William F. Maloney World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	166.03
160	Paul Segerstrom Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	166.68
161	Frances Stewart Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom	167.49
162	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)	167.76
163	Eswar Prasad Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	168.83
164	Ann E. Harrison University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	169.02
165	Douglas Gollin Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	170.49
166	Chris Papageorgiou International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	170.67
167	Enrico Spolaore Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	170.95
168	Joshua D Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	172.43
169	Michael A. Clemens Johns Hopkins University → School of Government and Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	172.73
170	Gary S. Fields	173.22
171	Thorvaldur Gylfason	174.95
172	Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	177.90
173	Oliver Morrissey University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham, United Kingdom	179.61
174	Lakshmi Iyer University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)	180.04
175	James Feyrer Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	181.59
176	Margaret Mcmillan Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	181.92
177	Arne Bigsten Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	182.01
178	Lisa Cameron University of Melbourne → Faculty of Business and Economics → Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR), Melbourne, Australia	182.51
179	Shigeyuki Hamori Yamato University → Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Suita, Japan	183.34
180	Raymond Fisman Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	183.55
181	Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	184.01
182	Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	184.36
183	Rohini Pande Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	185.12
184	John A. Maluccio Middlebury College → Department of Economics, Middlebury, Vermont (United States)	185.69
185	Rema Hanna Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	186.18
186	Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	186.51
187	Daniel Lederman Texas A&M University → Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, Texas (United States)	190.19
188	Jun Qian Shanghai Jiao Tong University → Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai, China	190.67
189	Uwe Sunde Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	191.29
190	Karen Macours Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	191.63
191	Eric Edmonds Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	193.39
192	Keijiro Otsuka Asian Development Bank → Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan	193.41

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