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

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg118912.91
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg2.001828.77
2Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.3591.70
3National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.75321.23
4University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)3.7641.79
5World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)4.91194.64
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)6.0082.10
6University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom6.3951.02
7Paris School of Economics, Paris, France6.73133.81
8London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom8.03151.79
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg9.00104.14
9University College London (UCL) → Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), London, United Kingdom9.29292.65
10Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)11.1020.33
-Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)12.1520.33
11Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)12.9720.74
12Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway13.6242.21
13Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain14.9682.35
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom15.3960.24
14Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy15.88101.84
15Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)15.9550.52
16George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)16.4210.41
17Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance, Luxembourg, Luxembourg16.72123.67
18Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany18.18131.02
19Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland18.2241.63
20George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)18.4230.57
-Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance → Département d'Économie et de Management, Luxembourg, Luxembourg18.49103.05
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia18.7620.62
20Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia18.7620.62
22University of California-Merced → Department of Economics, Merced, California (United States)20.1131.72
23Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel22.0720.32
24Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy23.5831.34
25University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)23.7920.10
26University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand26.5041.90
27Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)26.8350.84
28Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)27.0361.29
29Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)27.4752.18
30ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany27.4892.16
-University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand28.1541.89
31Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain28.5141.64
32University of Notre Dame → Keough School of Global Affairs, South Bend, Indiana (United States)28.9110.78
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain30.4130.97
33Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia31.1260.89
34Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)32.1610.46
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)33.1610.46
35University of Southampton → Economics Division, Southampton, United Kingdom33.8121.24
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Centre for Economic History (CEH), Canberra, Australia35.0810.36
36Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France37.2761.30
37Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)38.3031.49
38University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)38.3120.37
39Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium39.12162.15
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France39.4941.23
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia42.3340.18
40University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)42.4210.65
41Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom42.62280.35
42University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)43.8052.16
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy44.0110.10
43University of North Florida → Department of Economics and Geography, Jacksonville, Florida (United States)44.3010.63
-Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics → Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Tel Aviv, Israel44.3310.12
44Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)45.9720.39
45Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)46.1320.92
46Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden46.3840.55
47Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)47.0520.65
48Royal Holloway → Department of Economics, Egham, United Kingdom47.0620.43
49University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)51.2830.50
50New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)51.6840.60
51University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada52.7110.10
52University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom53.1730.89
53Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie, Clermont-Ferrand, France53.4841.18
-Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie → Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France54.8831.17
54Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg, Germany55.3482.42
55Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)56.2541.20
56Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy56.9610.32
57Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)57.1920.13
58CESifo, München, Germany58.70340.67
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, Nottingham, United Kingdom60.6210.40
59Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands61.4320.15
60University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)61.6920.19
61Universidade Nova de Lisboa → School of Business and Economics, Lisboa, Portugal61.9831.53
62Stockholms Universitet → Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholm, Sweden62.1892.98
63Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany63.0262.57
64Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark63.5762.12
65University of Michigan → Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)64.1620.61
66Université d'Ottawa → Département d'Économie, Ottawa, Canada64.9742.13
67Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)66.2910.33
68Western Michigan University → Department of Economics, Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States)66.7010.75
69Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States)66.9310.35
-Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)67.1610.74
-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, Belgium67.40152.01
70Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain67.5871.66
71New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates68.9420.34
72University of Western Australia → Business School, Perth, Australia69.1210.90
-University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia69.1210.90
73Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)69.8910.33
74Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel72.2531.61
75Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France73.7441.49
76Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII), Paris, France74.7761.21
77Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands76.2220.23
78Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland76.5241.03
79HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France77.0310.10
-HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France78.0710.10
80Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)78.2120.54
81Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France78.5862.10
82University College Dublin → School of Economics, Dublin, Ireland78.6520.63
-École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie → Centre de Recherche Économique sur la Gouvernance, l'Inégalité et les Conflits, Lyon, France80.9110.60
82École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie, Lyon, France80.9110.60

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Giovanni Peri
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
1.50
2George Borjas1.58
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
3.91
4Alberto Alesina4.61
5David Mckenzie
World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
5.02
6Gordon Hanson
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
7.76
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
9.26
9Michael A. Clemens
George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)
10.17
10Barry R. Chiswick
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
11.58
11Mark Rosenzweig
Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
12.08
12Assaf Razin12.73
13William Kerr
Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
14.10
14Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
14.53
15Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
University of California-Merced → Department of Economics, Merced, California (United States)
15.63
16Klaus F. Zimmermann
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany
15.79
17Michel Beine
Université du Luxembourg → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance → Département d'Économie et de Management, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
17.94
18Francesc Ortega
University of Notre Dame → Keough School of Global Affairs, South Bend, Indiana (United States)
20.98
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)
21.79
20Francine Blau
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
24.00
21Leah Platt Boustan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
24.15
22Alan Manning
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
24.68
23Timothy James Hatton
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Centre for Economic History (CEH), Canberra, Australia
24.91
24Anna Maria Mayda25.73
25Peter Nijkamp
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
25.96
26David E. Card26.97
27Paul W. Miller31.15
28Lawrence Kahn31.84
29Kaivan Munshi
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
31.91
30Tommaso Frattini
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
32.42
31Madeline Zavodny
University of North Florida → Department of Economics and Geography, Jacksonville, Florida (United States)
32.68
32Joan Monras
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
34.34
33Stephen J. Trejo
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
34.44
34Thomas Chaney
University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
35.09
35Jackline Wahba
University of Southampton → Economics Division, Southampton, United Kingdom
36.57
36Lant Pritchett
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
37.92
37John Gibson
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
40.91
38Steven Stillman
Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
42.36
39Chad Sparber
Colgate University → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New York (United States)
42.76
40Yaw 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
43.32
41Jennifer Hunt
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
43.63
42Ian Peter Preston
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
44.72
43Bernt Bratsberg
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
45.15
44Pia Orrenius
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)
46.14
45Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
46.50
46Susan Pozo
Western Michigan University → Department of Economics, Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States)
46.67
47Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy
48.37
48Nathan Nunn
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
50.07
49Giovanni Facchini
University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, Nottingham, United Kingdom
50.11
50Jacques Poot
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
52.02
51Jeffrey T. Grogger52.06
52Maurice Schiff
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
52.23
53Richard B. Freeman52.26
54Enrico Moretti
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
54.04
55Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
56.03
56Simone Bertoli
Université Clermont Auvergne → École d'Économie → Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France
56.92
57Pierre-Philippe Combes
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France
62.52
58Carlos Vargas-Silva
Oxford University → Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford, United Kingdom
62.72
59Sari Pekkala Kerr
Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States)
65.53
60Christopher Robert Parsons
University of Western Australia → Business School → Department of Economics, Perth, Australia
66.32
61Francesco Fasani
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
66.52
62Isaac Ehrlich66.61
63Yves Zenou
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
66.86
64Fernando Parro
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
67.35
65Ethan G. Lewis
Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
69.08
66Alicia Adsera71.66
67Gil S. Epstein71.95
68Panu Poutvaara
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
73.54
69Sylvie Démurger
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon → Département d'Économie → Centre de Recherche Économique sur la Gouvernance, l'Inégalité et les Conflits, Lyon, France
74.91
70Albrecht Glitz
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
77.52
71Amelie Constant
University of Pennsylvania → Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
78.97
72Kevin Lang
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
79.65
73Olof Åslund (Olof Aslund)81.72
74David Neumark
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
82.74
75Uta Schoenberg
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
83.55
76Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
83.60
77Shi Li
Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China
85.32
78Yann Algan
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France
86.87
79Lorenzo Caliendo
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
87.20
80Xin Meng
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia
88.63
81Francesco Lissoni
Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France
91.70
82Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
92.46
83Alan Barrett
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland
94.36
84Andrew Mountford
Royal Holloway → Department of Economics, Egham, United Kingdom
94.39
85Paola Giuliano96.29
86Peter J. Montiel
Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
96.54
87Alberto Bisin97.58
88Stefanie Stantcheva
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
98.39
89Herbert Brücker (Herbert Bruecker)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg, Germany
98.55
90Miles Corak
City University of New York (CUNY) → Graduate Center → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
99.39
91Cristina Cattaneo
RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Milano, Italy
100.04
92Christopher Worswick
Carleton University → Department of Economics, Ottawa, Canada
100.46
93Trevor Tombe
University of Calgary → Department of Economics, Calgary, Canada
101.54
94Abigail Wozniak
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
101.56
95Knut Røed (Knut Roed)
Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway
101.60
96Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
102.13
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