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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Economics of Human Migration, as of September 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg119113.04
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg2.001838.75
2Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.3591.67
3National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.90331.23
4University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)3.6941.80
5World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)4.91194.98
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)6.0082.22
6University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom6.4251.00
7Paris School of Economics, Paris, France6.73133.80
8London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom7.78151.78
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg8.82104.08
9University College London (UCL) → Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), London, United Kingdom10.31282.63
10Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)10.3320.33
11Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy11.04132.48
-Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)11.3820.33
12Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.6220.73
13Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway14.7031.21
14Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain15.2682.12
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom15.4860.24
15Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance, Luxembourg, Luxembourg16.17123.50
16Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)16.6261.51
17George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)17.5710.39
18Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland17.6641.63
-Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance → Département d'Économie et de Management, Luxembourg, Luxembourg18.09102.88
19Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany19.11120.99
20University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)19.4720.10
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia19.6120.61
20Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia19.6120.61
22Johns Hopkins University → School of Government and Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)22.2910.50
23Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel22.5520.32
24Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy22.5731.32
25Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)24.5250.80
26University of California-Merced → Department of Economics, Merced, California (United States)24.8821.03
27University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand24.9841.90
28Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)25.5261.28
-University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand26.9441.89
29University of Notre Dame → Keough School of Global Affairs, South Bend, Indiana (United States)27.2210.78
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain28.4830.97
30Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain28.7152.61
31Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)30.9910.44
32University of Southampton → Economics Division, Southampton, United Kingdom31.8621.23
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)31.9910.44
33ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany32.2771.21
34Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France33.6761.42
35Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia34.4250.71
36Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)35.4431.70
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France36.2241.35
37Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)36.4531.49
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Centre for Economic History (CEH), Canberra, Australia36.6010.35
38University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)37.5520.36
39Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium39.24162.15
40University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)42.4410.65
41Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom42.59290.35
42University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)42.8752.16
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia42.9330.17
43University of North Florida → Department of Economics and Geography, Jacksonville, Florida (United States)43.5210.64
-Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics → Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Tel Aviv, Israel44.3010.12
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy44.4920.43
44Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)44.9320.37
45Royal Holloway → Department of Economics, Egham, United Kingdom46.2620.43
46Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)46.4620.91
47Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)46.7620.65
48Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden47.0240.54
49University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)51.0030.55
-University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia51.3621.52
49University of Western Australia → Business School, Perth, Australia51.3621.52
51New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)52.1140.59
52University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom54.3630.89
53Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie, Clermont-Ferrand, France54.4041.18
54University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada54.5210.09
55Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg, Germany55.2482.37
-Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie → Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France56.0131.17
56Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)57.2520.13
57Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy58.3310.31
58Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)58.8530.92
59CESifo, München, Germany60.38340.65
60Universidade Nova de Lisboa → School of Business and Economics, Lisboa, Portugal60.5531.53
61University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)62.0520.19
62Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden62.8292.93
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, Nottingham, United Kingdom63.0910.39
63University of Michigan → Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)63.5220.61
64Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands64.1620.15
65Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)64.7910.33
-Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)65.4210.74
66Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain66.1871.50
67Western Michigan University → Department of Economics, Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States)66.2510.75
68Université d'Ottawa → Département d'Économie, Ottawa, Canada66.3642.12
69Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark66.5851.29
70Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States)67.0710.33
-Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium67.81152.01
71Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany68.2052.35
72University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)70.2520.61
73New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates70.5820.34
74HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France72.1010.11
75Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France73.1141.49
-HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France73.1410.11
76University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)74.5621.38
77Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel74.6231.55
78Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands76.1820.23
79Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)76.4320.54
80Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland76.8041.02
81University College Dublin → School of Economics, Dublin, Ireland77.6520.63
82Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France79.1062.08
-Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics → Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), Barcelona, Spain80.0040.83
-École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie → Centre de Recherche Économique sur la Gouvernance, l'Inégalité et les Conflits, Lyon, France80.0810.60
82École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie, Lyon, France80.0810.60
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies (KITeS/CESPRI), Milano, Italy80.5110.28
-Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics → Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA) → Grup d'Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional, Barcelona, Spain81.0740.82
84Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)84.0331.40
85Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France84.4930.25

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Giovanni Peri
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
1.42
2George Borjas1.59
3Christian 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
4.06
4Alberto Alesina †4.60
5David Mckenzie
World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
4.97
6Gordon Hanson
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
7.82
7Hillel Rapoport
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
9.03
8Frédéric Docquier
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
9.41
9Michael A. Clemens
Johns Hopkins University → School of Government and Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
9.89
10Barry R. Chiswick
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
12.11
11Mark Rosenzweig
Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
12.23
12Assaf Razin12.88
13Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
14.02
14William Kerr
Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
14.40
15Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
University of California-Merced → Department of Economics, Merced, California (United States)
15.40
16Klaus F. Zimmermann
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany
16.35
17Michel Beine
Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance → Département d'Économie et de Management, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
18.16
18Francesc Ortega
University of Notre Dame → Keough School of Global Affairs, South Bend, Indiana (United States)
20.86
19Dean 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)
21.08
20David E. Card22.53
21Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
24.01
22Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
24.13
23Leah Platt Boustan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
24.69
24Anna Maria Mayda26.14
25Timothy James Hatton
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Centre for Economic History (CEH), Canberra, Australia
26.48
26Peter Nijkamp
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
28.63
27Lawrence Kahn30.63
28Kaivan Munshi
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
32.02
29Madeline Zavodny
University of North Florida → Department of Economics and Geography, Jacksonville, Florida (United States)
32.24
30Tommaso Frattini
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
32.76
31Paul W. Miller †33.06
32Stephen J. Trejo
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
33.15
33Joan Monras
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
35.66
34Jackline Wahba
University of Southampton → Economics Division, Southampton, United Kingdom
35.94
35Thomas Chaney
University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
36.75
36Lant Pritchett
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
36.94
37Chad Sparber
Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)
39.50
38Yaw Nyarko
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
41.28
39Steven Stillman
Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
41.78
40John Gibson
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
42.13
41Pia Orrenius
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)
44.58
42Jennifer Hunt
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
44.61
43Ian Peter Preston
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
45.45
44Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
45.54
45Bernt Bratsberg
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
45.94
46Susan Pozo
Western Michigan University → Department of Economics, Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States)
48.21
47Enrico Moretti
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
50.06
48Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy
50.60
49Nathan Nunn
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
50.89
50Giovanni Facchini
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, Nottingham, United Kingdom
51.78
51Jacques Poot
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
52.47
52Richard B. Freeman53.43
53Maurice Schiff
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
54.72
54Simone Bertoli
Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie → Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France
54.79
55Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
55.04
56Jeffrey T. Grogger56.63
57Pierre-Philippe Combes
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
63.70
58Sari Pekkala Kerr
Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States)
64.99
59Yves Zenou
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
66.08
60Ethan G. Lewis
Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
66.39
61Isaac Ehrlich67.00
62Carlos Vargas-Silva
Oxford University → Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford, United Kingdom
67.07
63Christopher Robert Parsons
University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia
69.04
64Francesco Fasani
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
70.89
65Fernando Parro
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
72.15
66Sylvie Démurger
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie → Centre de Recherche Économique sur la Gouvernance, l'Inégalité et les Conflits, Lyon, France
73.38
67Alicia Adsera73.51
68Gil S. Epstein74.37
69Albrecht Glitz
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
77.04
70Panu Poutvaara
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
77.63
71Kevin Lang
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
79.82
72David Neumark
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
81.15
73Uta Schoenberg
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
81.20
74Amelie Constant
University of Pennsylvania → Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
81.72
75Lorenzo Caliendo
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
82.31
76Shi Li
Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China
83.95
77Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
84.07
78Olof Åslund (Olof Aslund)84.98
79Xin Meng
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia
86.17
80Yann Algan
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France
88.10
81Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
90.65
82Francesco Lissoni
Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France
90.83
83Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
92.97
84Trevor Tombe
University of Calgary → Department of Economics, Calgary, Canada
93.73
85Andrew Mountford
Royal Holloway → Department of Economics, Egham, United Kingdom
95.33
86Cristina Cattaneo
RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Milano, Italy
95.48
87Paola Giuliano95.53
88Alan Barrett
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland
97.60
89Miles Corak
City University of New York (CUNY) → Graduate Center → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
98.83
90Christopher Worswick
Carleton University → Department of Economics, Ottawa, Canada
99.58
91Christopher L. Smith
Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
99.68
92Taryn Dinkelman
University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)
100.40
93Knut Røed (Knut Roed)
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
100.68
94Peter J. Montiel
Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
101.48
95Alberto Bisin101.94
96Herbert Brücker (Herbert Bruecker)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg, Germany
102.04
97Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
103.75
98Kevin Shih
University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)
103.80
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