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

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom1303.74
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.00541.40
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom3171.27
3University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)3.2050.98
4Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg3.721844.61
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg4.731823.71
5Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)5.8961.94
6Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland7.02204.66
7Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)7.3540.48
8University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)7.6360.44
9University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom7.8540.26
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany8.93154.26
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland9.95101.83
11Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)11.4060.73
12Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)13.9830.28
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom14.3770.68
13Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany14.4071.65
14University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)15.1210.22
15University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)15.1831.09
16Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands15.7482.37
17University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)16.3231.69
18Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.3641.08
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.3641.08
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.3710.44
19Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)20.0130.63
20Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom21.56520.92
21University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada21.9830.43
22University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada22.3840.95
23Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)22.8610.17
24ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany23.6481.41
25Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)23.9040.75
26Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany24.9251.12
27Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)25.2040.48
28Paris School of Economics, Paris, France26.9760.57
29Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia28.2671.39
30University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom30.0771.04
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia31.9861.37
31Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany32.40102.52
32Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)32.9510.45
33Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy33.2850.26
34University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom33.4420.61
35Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia33.4510.06
36Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France35.0820.24
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France36.1220.24
37CESifo, München, Germany36.27450.86
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands37.8241.86
38Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)39.1750.40
39Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)39.3330.77
40University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom39.7961.14
-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany41.1231.00
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom41.5920.75
41Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain42.0361.26
42Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway42.3181.39
43Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)43.6030.24
44Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark43.7471.19
45Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy43.7752.10
46Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands43.9590.95
47University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)45.0310.50
48University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom45.1330.26
49Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom46.0890.58
50Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)47.0150.31
51University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada48.4530.68
52Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)49.6630.16
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)51.3630.82
53Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)53.8930.42
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom53.9220.26
54Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)54.2910.19
55Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy54.3161.02
56World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)54.8350.94
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)55.1320.42
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain55.8530.41
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom56.6820.18
57University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)57.0510.46
58Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)57.3320.49
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom57.7320.16
59University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada57.9931.08
-Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)58.7110.05
60Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)58.9430.54
61University of Georgia → Terry College of Business, Athens, Georgia (United States)59.8520.78
-University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)59.8520.78
62Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland59.9730.89
63Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)63.4110.42
64Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)63.4810.17
65University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom63.8841.13
66Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany66.1241.59
67Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain66.3530.52
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg66.5240.91
68Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany66.5861.39
69George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)67.7510.11
70Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)67.9110.16
-Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Strategy Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)68.3820.47
71Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria68.6872.32
-Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom69.3670.27
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway70.5540.85
72Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy70.8550.49
73University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)71.5410.09
74European University Institute → Department of Economics, Firenze, Italy71.9651.37
75Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland75.1651.48
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland76.1751.48
76Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands76.54100.67

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
1.63
2John van Reenen
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
3.69
3James J. Heckman
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
4.59
4Edward Lazear4.72
5David E. Card4.78
6John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.78
7Richard B. Freeman8.40
8Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
10.87
9Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
11.22
10Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.23
11Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell)
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
13.13
12John S. Heywood
University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)
15.03
13Alex Bryson
University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
16.26
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
16.28
15Erik Brynjolfsson16.40
16David B. Audretsch
Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)
17.43
17Eric Hanushek (Eric Hanusek)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.56
18Flavio Cunha
Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
17.81
19Andrea 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)
18.81
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)
22.11
21Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
22.89
22Ludger Woessmann
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
23.39
23Raffaella Sadun23.73
24Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
26.01
25Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
26.47
26Jorn-Steffen Pischke28.09
27Mark Huggett
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
28.19
28Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
29.11
29David Deming
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
29.25
30Kathryn Shaw
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
30.95
31Oded Galor
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
31.16
32Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
34.93
33Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
36.17
34Costas Meghir
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
36.93
35Ron Kaniel
University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States)
39.00
36Christian Dustmann
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
University College London (UCL) → Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), London, United Kingdom
39.55
37Daniel Hamermesh
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
41.52
38Jean-Marc Robin
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
41.74
39Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
43.76
40Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
44.09
41W. Bentley Macleod
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
44.24
42Gary Charness44.27
43Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
46.20
44Mirjam van Praag (Celine Mirjam van Praag)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
46.88
45Lawrence Kahn47.92
46Victor Chaim Lavy
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
48.33
47Ron S. Jarmin
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
49.19
48Paul Oyer51.72
49Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
52.20
50Peter Kuhn52.48
51David Jacob Cooper
Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States)
53.91
52Robert Dur
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
53.92
53Marco Pagano
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy
55.95
54Mitchell Harvey Hoffman
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
55.99
55Gordon M. Phillips
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
57.12
56Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
57.30
57Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
57.78
58Dirk Sliwka
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
58.34
59Roland Benabou58.48
60Joerg Baten
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany
59.00
61David Autor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
60.86
62Klaus M. Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
61.39
63Chris M. Robinson
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
62.19
64Uschi Backes-Gellner
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
65.15
65Michael Kosfeld
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
65.67
66Patrick Kline
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
66.97
67Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
67.53
68Lucia Smith Foster
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
67.68
69Dirk Jenter
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
67.70
70Ghazala Azmat68.09
71David Huffman
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
68.83
72Alma Cohen70.04
73Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
72.15
74Isaac Ehrlich72.17
75Lisa B. Kahn
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
75.20
76Jere Richard Behrman
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
75.52
77Thomas Zwick
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Würzburg, Germany
77.13
78Fatih Guvenen
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
77.77
79Melvyn Glyn Coles
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
78.08
80Stefano DellaVigna
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
78.12
81Simon Gächter (Simon Gaechter)
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom
78.16
82Paola Sapienza
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
80.28
83V. Joseph Hotz
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
82.07
84Maitreesh Ghatak
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
82.73
85Jesse Rothstein83.44
86Armin Falk
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
84.39
87Barbara Petrongolo
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
86.57
88Christopher Cornwell
University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States)
88.55
89Daniele Checchi
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
90.97
90Jan van Ours
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
92.01
91Ana Rute Cardoso
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
94.33
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