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

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom1303.56
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 Kingdom3181.30
3University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)3.2050.97
4Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg3.721874.55
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg4.731853.65
5Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland5.52224.96
6Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)5.8961.36
7Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)7.8540.48
8University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)8.2760.43
9University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom8.8840.25
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany9.18164.40
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland9.25111.85
11Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)10.7560.73
12Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)14.2530.28
13University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)14.2620.55
14Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany14.4471.65
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom14.6360.42
15University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.0731.06
16Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands15.8982.34
17University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)16.0231.69
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.2510.44
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)19.0940.83
17Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)19.0940.83
19Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)19.4430.63
20University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada21.9330.42
21Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom21.96520.82
22Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)22.5210.17
23ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany22.8891.53
24Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)23.1340.75
25Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany24.4051.12
26Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)24.7240.48
27Paris School of Economics, Paris, France25.9860.57
28Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia27.2371.45
29University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom30.8371.02
30Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany31.12102.52
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia31.1861.43
31Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia31.5010.06
32Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)31.9710.45
33Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy33.0140.21
34University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom34.1020.60
35Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France35.7220.23
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands36.1841.86
36University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada36.3540.85
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France36.7720.23
37Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)38.1130.76
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom39.2120.75
38University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom39.4261.14
39Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)39.8850.40
40CESifo, München, Germany40.16450.78
41Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain41.0061.26
-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany41.4231.00
42Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)42.0250.31
43Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway43.3181.27
44Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands43.4990.94
45Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark43.5581.43
46Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)43.7830.24
47University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)44.2610.50
48Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom44.3090.58
49Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy45.9952.02
50Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)47.2930.16
51University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom47.6230.26
52University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada48.8530.69
53Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)50.5940.63
54Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)50.6451.72
-Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)51.8841.47
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom54.2820.26
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)54.3230.57
55Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)55.5730.52
56World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)56.3550.93
57University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada56.4031.09
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain56.8330.41
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)56.9420.39
58Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)57.4210.18
59University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)57.6610.46
60Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy58.7960.98
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom58.8120.16
61Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)59.0130.54
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom59.5120.18
-Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)61.1210.05
62Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland61.4330.90
-University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)61.5120.78
62University of Georgia → Terry College of Business, Athens, Georgia (United States)61.5120.78
64Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden63.1670.82
65University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom64.6741.13
66Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)66.1110.17
67Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)66.1910.42
68Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany67.1761.40
69Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany68.0941.57
70Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)68.2610.16
71University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)68.7120.47
72George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)69.3210.11
73Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain69.7030.53
74Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria69.8172.32
-Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom69.8970.28
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg70.6640.90
-Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Strategy Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)71.2320.46
75Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy74.0150.47
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway74.3140.75
76Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany75.2921.33

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
1.71
2John van Reenen
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
3.44
3James J. Heckman
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
4.49
4David E. Card4.95
5Edward Lazear †5.04
6John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.52
7Richard B. Freeman8.96
8Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
10.36
9Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.23
10Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
11.64
11Erik Brynjolfsson13.74
12Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell)
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
13.99
13John S. Heywood
University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)
15.10
14Alex Bryson
University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
16.03
15Oriana 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
17.00
16David B. Audretsch
Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)
17.27
17Eric Hanushek (Eric Hanusek)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.29
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)
19.17
19Flavio Cunha
Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
19.77
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)
21.63
21Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
24.03
22David Deming
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
24.32
23Raffaella Sadun24.67
24Ludger Woessmann
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
25.07
25Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
26.62
26Jorn-Steffen Pischke27.03
27Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
27.84
28Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
28.68
29Mark Huggett
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
29.11
30Kathryn Shaw
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
29.61
31Oded Galor
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
29.95
32Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
35.36
33Costas Meghir
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
36.63
34Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
36.65
35Ron Kaniel
University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)
38.00
36Jean-Marc Robin
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
41.67
37W. Bentley Macleod
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
42.92
38Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
43.41
39Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
43.83
40Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
43.86
41Christian 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
43.87
42Mirjam van Praag (Celine Mirjam van Praag)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
45.50
43Gary Charness †46.05
44Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
47.27
45Ron S. Jarmin
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
48.91
46Lawrence Kahn49.62
47David Autor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
51.09
48Paul Oyer51.35
49Victor Chaim Lavy
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
53.18
50Mitchell Harvey Hoffman
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
53.53
51Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
53.62
52David Jacob Cooper
Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)
53.67
53Gordon M. Phillips
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
55.07
54Robert Dur
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
56.27
55Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
56.35
56Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
57.36
57Roland Benabou57.71
58Marco Pagano
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy
57.94
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
58.22
60Peter Kuhn58.62
61Chris M. Robinson
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
60.00
62Klaus M. Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
60.79
63Patrick Kline
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
62.19
64Uschi Backes-Gellner
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
64.48
65Dirk Jenter
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
64.61
66Joerg Baten
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany
64.88
67Michael Kosfeld
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
67.87
68Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
67.89
69David Huffman
Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)
68.27
70Lucia Smith Foster
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
69.45
71Alma Cohen70.00
72Ghazala Azmat †70.56
73Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
72.35
74Lisa B. Kahn
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
72.49
75Isaac Ehrlich75.10
76Stefano DellaVigna
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
76.50
77Fatih Guvenen
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
77.40
78Melvyn Glyn Coles
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
78.76
79Jesse Rothstein80.44
80Paola Sapienza
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
80.53
81Thomas Zwick
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Würzburg, Germany
80.80
82Jere Richard Behrman
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
80.92
83V. Joseph Hotz
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
81.01
84Maitreesh Ghatak
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
81.58
85Simon Gächter (Simon Gaechter)
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom
81.92
86Armin Falk
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
85.49
87Barbara Petrongolo
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
85.79
88Christopher Cornwell
University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)
86.07
89Jan van Ours
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
91.04
90Ana Rute Cardoso
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
91.23
91Takao Kato
Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)
94.06
92Matthew Neidell
Columbia University → Mailman School of Public Health → Department of Health Policy and Management, New York City, New York (United States)
94.84
93Florian Englmaier
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
95.66
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