Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty, as of September 2026

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For Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty, these are 647 institutions and 781 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.11	60	3.06
2	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	2.30	10	2.13
3	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.49	9	1.53
4	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	4.34	10	1.86
5	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	4.42	30	5.44
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	6.75	7	0.71
7	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	6.81	12	2.80
8	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	7.10	160	7.42
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	8.19	155	5.17
9	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	8.58	19	3.90
10	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	10.07	11	2.50
11	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	11.02	7	1.17
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	11.68	15	1.87
12	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	12.07	9	0.92
13	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	14.78	6	1.49
14	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	15.14	5	0.87
15	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	15.48	4	1.34
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	16.53	4	1.34
16	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	17.62	4	0.77
17	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	17.90	3	0.49
18	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	18.21	4	1.58
19	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	18.43	5	1.13
20	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	18.94	2	0.90
21	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	19.14	6	2.03
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	19.21	4	1.58
22	University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	19.87	2	0.57
23	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	21.25	9	2.31
24	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	22.24	20	2.15
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	24.65	4	0.71
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	26.09	3	0.62
25	Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	26.21	2	0.67
26	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	27.87	4	0.62
27	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	27.97	2	0.22
28	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	28.84	2	0.25
29	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	29.34	1	0.21
-	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	30.02	1	0.10
-	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	31.18	1	0.41
30	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	31.21	8	2.42
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	32.16	13	1.19
31	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	32.41	4	0.56
32	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	32.71	18	4.77
33	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	32.90	2	0.33
34	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	33.21	5	0.31
35	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	34.33	2	0.29
36	George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	35.30	4	2.11
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Social Policy, London, United Kingdom	35.37	6	1.21
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	35.59	7	0.39
37	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	35.60	37	0.61
38	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	38.45	7	1.28
39	Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	38.53	2	0.24
40	CESifo, München, Germany	40.23	26	0.57
41	University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	40.67	1	0.28
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain	41.67	5	1.17
42	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia	42.31	1	0.10
43	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	43.54	5	0.55
44	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	45.00	3	0.58
-	University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management → Department of Economics, Nicosia, Cyprus	45.32	1	0.19
44	University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management, Nicosia, Cyprus	45.32	1	0.19
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom	45.69	3	0.75
46	Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy	45.81	6	1.43
47	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain	46.14	7	1.69
48	Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden	46.24	13	1.52
49	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	46.62	1	0.38
-	Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	46.97	1	0.13
-	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium	47.64	1	0.38
50	Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden	48.73	6	1.70
51	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	49.19	3	0.23
52	ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	50.77	7	0.63
53	Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland	52.03	4	1.13
-	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	53.31	3	0.50
54	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	53.39	2	0.43
-	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics → Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Tel Aviv, Israel	54.47	1	0.43
55	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	54.56	2	0.61
56	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	57.77	3	0.21
57	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden	58.86	7	2.04
58	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	59.73	3	0.80
-	Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden	60.28	6	1.59
-	University of South Carolina → Darla Moore School of Business → Economics Department, Columbia, South Carolina (United States)	60.28	3	1.16
58	University of South Carolina → Darla Moore School of Business, Columbia, South Carolina (United States)	60.28	3	1.16
-	University of Arizona → Eller College of Management → Economics Department, Tucson, Arizona (United States)	60.37	2	0.43
58	University of Arizona → Eller College of Management, Tucson, Arizona (United States)	60.37	2	0.43
61	Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany	60.51	3	0.37
62	University College Dublin → School of Economics, Dublin, Ireland	63.07	5	1.02
63	Banco de Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal	64.17	3	0.85
-	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France	64.96	2	0.70
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → International Inequalities Institute, London, United Kingdom	65.51	4	0.57
64	University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	65.80	2	1.03

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.21
2	Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell) University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	2.95
3	Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.23
4	Stephen Nickell Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	6.25
5	David E. Card	6.27
6	David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	6.76
7	Martin Ravallion †	9.07
8	Angus Deaton University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	9.70
9	Claudia Goldin Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	9.99
10	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	11.70
11	George Borjas	11.93
12	Alberto Alesina †	13.12
13	Richard B. Freeman	13.46
14	David Neumark University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	13.73
15	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	13.95
16	Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	15.25
17	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	15.54
18	Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	15.72
19	Edward Lazear †	15.74
20	Andrew Clark Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	16.84
21	Eric Hanushek (Eric Hanusek) Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	17.76
22	Stephen Jenkins London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Social Policy, London, United Kingdom	17.76
23	David G. Blanchflower Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	18.12
24	Manuel Arellano Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	21.91
25	John List University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	22.46
26	Francine Blau Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	24.28
27	Joseph G. Altonji Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	24.32
28	Lawrence Kahn	26.56
29	Richard A. Easterlin †	27.02
30	Alan B. Krueger †	27.25
31	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	28.36
32	T. Paul Schultz Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	31.97
33	Robert Moffitt Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	32.31
34	Ernst Fehr Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	33.43
35	Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	37.23
36	Pierre Cahuc Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	37.69
37	Petra Elisabeth Todd University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	37.85
38	Alan Manning London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	40.65
39	Finis Welch †	43.23
40	Joshua D Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	43.25
41	Orazio Attanasio University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	44.98
42	John F. Helliwell University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	46.99
43	Sandra E. Black Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	48.07
44	James Andreoni University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	49.12
45	Lawrence H. Summers	50.73
46	Richard Layard London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	50.84
47	Bruno S. Frey Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	53.65
48	Joseph Stiglitz	54.49
49	Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	54.85
50	Frank Alan Cowell London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom	55.00
51	Thomas Lemieux University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	56.17
52	Jere Richard Behrman University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	57.49
53	Debraj Ray New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	57.53
54	Elhanan Helpman Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	57.58
55	Jean-Marc Robin Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	58.58
56	Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	58.75
57	James E. Foster George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.82
58	Gordon Hanson Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	59.93
59	David Dorn Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	60.48
60	Roland Benabou	60.75
61	Peter Gottschalk †	60.93
62	Pierre Chiappori Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	62.27
63	Ronald L. Oaxaca Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg University of Arizona → Eller College of Management → Economics Department, Tucson, Arizona (United States)	63.13
64	John Forrest Kain †	66.58
65	Pedro Carneiro University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	66.95
66	Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	67.02
67	Ludger Woessmann ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	67.51
68	Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	67.52
69	Emmanuel Saez University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	71.25
70	Olivier Blanchard Paris School of Economics, Paris, France Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	71.82
71	Gary S. Fields	71.93
72	Klaus F. Zimmermann Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany	73.47
73	Edward Nathan Wolff	73.62
74	Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	73.67
75	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	73.69
76	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)	75.44
77	Raquel Fernandez	75.80
78	Pascual Restrepo Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	76.07

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