Top Institutions and Economists in Illinois (United States), as of March 2026

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For a listing of all economics institutions in Illinois (United States), see EDIRC
For Illinois (United States), these are 69 institutions with 629 members with a total share of 570.15.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.14	66	59.13
2	[2]	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.73	85	73.69
3	[3]	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.03	51	43.04
4	[4]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	4.00	54	46.24
5	[5]	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.28	34	30.03
6	[6]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.73	56	54.27
7	[7]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	7.07	44	37.69
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	7.20	18	15.11
8	[8]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	8.42	17	14.86
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.07	35	33.28
9	[9]	University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	9.68	30	24.24
10	[10]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	9.82	52	46.91
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	10.72	9	7.10
11	[11]	Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.76	5	2.74
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.90	13	11.69
-	[-]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.51	2	2
12	[12]	DePaul University → Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.60	16	11.86
13	[13]	University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	13.14	10	9.50
-	[-]	DePaul University → Graduate School of Business → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.45	7	5.67
14	[14]	Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)	14.61	5	4.80
15	[15]	University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	15.30	4	3.44
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	15.43	4	3.50
16	[17]	Southern Illinois University → Economics Department, Carbondale, Illinois (United States)	16.73	9	8.49
17	[16]	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	16.75	2	1.12

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.34	85	10
2	[2]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	1.50	66	10
3	[3]	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.10	51	10
4	[4]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	3.85	54	10
5	[5]	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.10	34	10
6	[6]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	6.14	56	10
7	[7]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	6.68	44	10
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	7.67	18	10
8	[8]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	8.22	17	10
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	8.90	35	10
9	[9]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	9.70	52	10
-	[-]	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.18	13	10
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	10.34	9	7.10
10	[10]	Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	10.42	5	2.74
11	[12]	University of Illinois at Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.27	30	10
12	[11]	Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)	11.58	5	4.80
-	[-]	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business → Applied Economics Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.72	2	2
13	[13]	University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	12.83	4	3.44
14	[14]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → School of Labor and Employment Relations, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	15.09	4	3.22
-	[-]	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Center for Business and Public Policy, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	15.16	1	0.86
15	[15]	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.56	2	1.12
16	[17]	Northeastern Illinois University → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.76	4	4
17	[18]	Illinois State University → Department of Economics, Normal, Illinois (United States)	18.53	13	8.59

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	James J. Heckman	1.05
2	[2]	Eugene F. Fama, Sr.	4.13
3	[5]	Raghuram G. Rajan	4.23
4	[4]	Robert W. Vishny	6.29
5	[10]	Charles Manski	6.52
6	[7]	Lars Peter Hansen	7.60
7	[6]	Luigi Zingales	8.09
8	[11]	Lawrence J. Christiano	8.24
9	[8]	Marianne Bertrand	8.97
10	[3]	John List	9.10
11	[12]	Richard H. Thaler	11.48
12	[14]	James Alan Robinson	12.18
13	[16]	Harald Uhlig	13.88
14	[25]	Kevin M. Murphy	14.84
15	[15]	Michael Kremer	15.63
16	[19]	Steven Levitt	17.19
17	[21]	Steven N. Durlauf	17.76
18	[13]	Sendhil Mullainathan	18.58
19	[20]	Michael Greenstone	18.87
20	[22]	Douglas W. Diamond	21.88
21	[36]	Roger B. Myerson	23.67
22	[26]	Steven Neil Kaplan	24.34
23	[27]	Chad Syverson	25.08
24	[28]	Lubos Pastor	25.42
25	[35]	Magne Mogstad	26.39
26	[31]	Robert Shimer	26.80
27	[9]	Martin Eichenbaum	29.13
28	[30]	Erik Hurst	29.37
29	[41]	Kiminori Matsuyama	30.24
30	[37]	Charles L. Evans	30.91
31	[40]	George-Marios Angeletos	32.09
32	[32]	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg	32.52
33	[42]	George M. Constantinides	34.12
34	[39]	Stefan Nagel	34.16
35	[69]	Patric H. Hendershott	38.00
36	[46]	Ravi Jagannathan	38.56
37	[45]	Ufuk Akcigit	41.42
38	[23]	Anil Kashyap	41.60
39	[29]	Dean Karlan	41.80
40	[17]	Robert J. Gordon	43.00
41	[48]	Greg Warren Kaplan	43.00
42	[34]	Paola Sapienza	43.01
43	[50]	Ali Hortacsu	43.74
44	[49]	Christian Hansen	44.80
45	[80]	Austan Goolsbee	45.48
46	[51]	Christopher Udry	46.46
47	[47]	Giorgio Primiceri	47.35
48	[90]	Ali M. Kutan	48.81
49	[57]	Guido Lorenzoni	50.20
50	[70]	Daniel F. Spulber	53.25
51	[65]	Jonas Fisher	54.54
52	[60]	Milton Harris	55.63
53	[61]	Asher Wolinsky	55.99
54	[73]	Ray Ball	56.07
55	[66]	Mikhail Golosov	56.45
56	[59]	Benjamin F. Jones	57.48
57	[63]	Robert H. Topel	57.75
58	[62]	Robert Barsky	59.16
59	[64]	Nancy Stokey	59.19
60	[56]	Christian Leuz	59.23
61	[67]	Brent Neiman	59.75
62	[43]	Bruce D. Meyer	62.81
63	[75]	Jens Ludwig	63.95
64	[24]	Robert M. Townsend	64.64
65	[74]	Jeffrey Robert Brown	66.25
66	[68]	Matthew J. Notowidigdo	66.28
67	[76]	Aviv Nevo	72.17
68	[88]	Sam Peltzman	72.68
69	[82]	David Evans	72.73
70	[38]	Mitchell Petersen	74.13
71	[84]	Efraim Benmelech	75.46
72	[83]	Dan Black	75.71
73	[87]	Dimitris Papanikolaou	76.74
74	[18]	Sergio Rebelo	76.81
75	[79]	Robert Kaestner	77.46
76	[103]	Konstantin Sonin	77.70
77	[106]	Dennis W. Carlton	78.55
78	[85]	Philip J. Reny	78.69
79	[91]	Richard Hornbeck	79.97
80	[92]	Alessandro Pavan	80.43
81	[101]	Ehud Kalai	81.10
82	[89]	Daniel G. Sullivan	82.19
83	[104]	Daniel Aaronson	83.63
84	[93]	Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)	84.42
85	[114]	Pradeep K. Chintagunta	86.74
86	[97]	Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi	86.85
87	[94]	Leonardo Bursztyn	86.90
88	[100]	Janice Eberly	87.61
89	[107]	Jing Cynthia Wu	88.74
90	[105]	Francois Gourio	89.97
91	[54]	Don Fullerton	90.55
92	[98]	Fernando Alvarez	90.64
93	[33]	Torben G. Andersen	90.74
94	[124]	Daniel McMillen	92.47
95	[102]	Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.	93.25
96	[111]	David Dranove	93.39
97	[108]	Dacheng Xiu	93.40
98	[77]	Nancy Qian	93.64
99	[52]	Casey Mulligan	94.62
100	[96]	Roger Koenker	94.76
101	[141]	Sajal Lahiri	94.89
102	[113]	Constantine Nicholas Yannelis	96.89
103	[53]	Amir Sufi	97.28
104	[143]	John F. McDonald	97.42
105	[72]	Charles Milton Kahn	100.46
106	[115]	Joseph Vavra	102.29
107	[122]	Firouz Gahvari	102.85
108	[120]	Azeem M. Shaikh	103.33
109	[139]	Erik Dietzenbacher	103.98
110	[123]	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	104.09
111	[128]	George G. Pennacchi	104.56
112	[119]	Steven G. Rivkin	104.75
113	[55]	Eddie Dekel	107.32
114	[121]	Jonathan Guryan	108.45
115	[149]	Scott H. Irwin	108.63
116	[130]	Robert Korajczyk	108.70
117	[117]	Derek Neal	109.21
118	[129]	Mark Mitchell	109.30
119	[142]	Tom Doan	112.66
120	[131]	Lars A Stole	113.61
121	[125]	Joshua D. Gottlieb	113.67
122	[126]	Devin Pope	114.55
123	[127]	Murillo Campello	116.82
124	[132]	Andrea Frazzini	116.99
125	[58]	Dan Bernhardt	117.11
126	[134]	Christopher Blattman	121.12
127	[71]	Tomas Philipson	122.90
128	[140]	David Besanko	124.28
129	[147]	Riza Demirer	124.43
130	[164]	Georgios Karras	125.41
131	[145]	Stavros Panageas	125.74
132	[135]	Elie Tamer	127.45
133	[208]	Scott William Hegerty	129.09
134	[148]	Matthew Rognlie	129.21
135	[150]	Jing Zhang	129.37
136	[168]	Rik Hafer	130.35
137	[167]	Marcelo C. Medeiros	130.60
138	[146]	Jeffrey Ely	130.81
139	[137]	Tatyana Deryugina	131.45
140	[170]	Francois Velde	132.19
141	[86]	Joel Mokyr	132.27
142	[81]	Robert H. Porter	134.32
143	[153]	Raaj Kumar Sah	136.54
144	[160]	Hannes Schwandt	136.80
145	[144]	Joel L. Horowitz	136.81
146	[159]	Bruno H. Strulovici	137.02
147	[158]	Jason Faberman	137.93
148	[157]	Koichiro Ito	139.05
149	[156]	Felix Tintelnot	139.19
150	[161]	David Aaron Marshall	139.64
151	[219]	Richard Grabowski	140.90
152	[152]	Ivan Alexis Canay	142.45
153	[155]	Darren Lubotsky	142.96
154	[99]	Bob Chirinko	143.78
155	[151]	Ryan Kellogg	144.23
156	[166]	Marciano Siniscalchi	145.78
157	[171]	Richard Rosen	146.17
158	[163]	David Yves Albouy	147.18

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Magne Mogstad	2.17
2	[4]	Brent Neiman	3.16
3	[6]	Greg Warren Kaplan	6.04
4	[3]	Ufuk Akcigit	6.55
5	[1]	John List	7.36
6	[14]	Dacheng Xiu	7.78
7	[5]	James J. Heckman	8.54
8	[13]	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	8.78
9	[9]	Marianne Bertrand	10.83
10	[8]	Constantine Nicholas Yannelis	10.93
11	[15]	Chad Syverson	11.06
12	[10]	Michael Greenstone	12.26
13	[16]	Stefan Nagel	13.95
14	[11]	Ali Hortacsu	14.42
15	[23]	Lubos Pastor	14.73
16	[20]	Harald Uhlig	15.08
17	[26]	Riza Demirer	15.61
18	[19]	Guido Lorenzoni	16.54
19	[17]	George-Marios Angeletos	17.08
20	[27]	Charles Manski	17.76
21	[12]	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg	18.92
22	[24]	Peter Nathan Ganong	19.20
23	[18]	Matthew J. Notowidigdo	19.68
24	[29]	Christian Hansen	20.74
25	[25]	Erik Hurst	21.17
26	[7]	Sendhil Mullainathan	22.27
27	[28]	Matthew Rognlie	22.46
28	[32]	Leonardo Bursztyn	29.39
29	[33]	Kilian Huber	29.87
30	[34]	Joseph Vavra	32.45
31	[42]	Diego Raoul Känzig (Diego Raoul Kaenzig)	32.92
32	[58]	Austan Goolsbee	34.85
33	[52]	Konstantin Sonin	35.63
34	[35]	Jens Ludwig	36.50
35	[39]	Dimitris Papanikolaou	37.37
36	[37]	Felix Tintelnot	37.70
37	[40]	Efraim Benmelech	38.25
38	[43]	Hannes Schwandt	38.36
39	[31]	Dean Karlan	40.95
40	[38]	Thibaut Lamadon	41.56
41	[47]	Tom Doan	41.85
42	[46]	Alexander W Bartik (Alexander Wickman Bartik)	42.16
43	[48]	Alexander Torgovitsky	42.38
44	[51]	Benjamin F. Jones	43.43
45	[44]	Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi	44.04
46	[53]	Niels Gormsen	45.19
47	[21]	Martin Eichenbaum	47.02
48	[70]	Ali M. Kutan	49.20
49	[63]	W Walker Hanlon	49.40
50	[49]	Giorgio Primiceri	49.45
51	[67]	Raghuram G. Rajan	49.78
52	[69]	Azeem M. Shaikh	49.79
53	[56]	Luigi Zingales	49.82
54	[55]	David P Molitor	49.90
55	[50]	Tatyana Deryugina	50.21
56	[54]	Christopher Udry	51.38
57	[57]	Stéphane Bonhomme (Stephane Bonhomme)	53.80
58	[73]	Jiekun Huang	54.89
59	[59]	Robert Shimer	56.70
60	[71]	Eliza Forsythe	57.43
61	[68]	Jörg L. Spenkuch (Jorg L. Spenkuch)	60.05
62	[60]	Christian Leuz	61.08
63	[75]	Janice Eberly	61.24
64	[61]	Mikhail Golosov	61.66
65	[72]	Jack Mountjoy	61.67
66	[80]	Jing Cynthia Wu	61.94
67	[79]	Lars Peter Hansen	63.47
68	[66]	ManasI Deshpande	65.57
69	[76]	Hyunseob Kim	66.31
70	[78]	Francois Gourio	69.22
71	[74]	Jacob A. Robbins	70.86
72	[84]	Julian Reif	71.22
73	[88]	Marta Lachowska	73.65
74	[83]	Ivan Alexis Canay	73.96
75	[106]	Marcelo C. Medeiros	74.66
76	[93]	Lesley Jeanne Turner	74.75
77	[97]	Koichiro Ito	75.54
78	[82]	Robert Kaestner	76.40
79	[103]	Kiminori Matsuyama	78.89
80	[89]	Alessandro Pavan	78.92
81	[96]	Ian Louis Dew-Becker	79.61
82	[81]	Michael Kremer	80.21
83	[95]	Joel David	80.38
84	[102]	Daniel Aaronson	80.81
85	[92]	Emanuele Colonnelli	81.12
86	[65]	Nancy Qian	82.04
87	[114]	Gal Hochman	83.15
88	[109]	Benjamin M. Marx	83.24
89	[98]	Benjamin Golub	83.63
90	[128]	Pradeep K. Chintagunta	85.78
91	[108]	Stavros Panageas	85.89
92	[105]	Michael Powell	86.50
93	[41]	Piotr Dworczak	86.65
94	[166]	Bryan C. McCannon	87.00
95	[111]	Anna Marie Costello	90.07
96	[113]	Nicola Bianchi	90.51
97	[100]	Joshua D. Gottlieb	90.82
98	[110]	James Alan Robinson	93.35
99	[115]	Michael Dinerstein	98.26
100	[120]	Greg Howard	99.96
101	[45]	Veronica Guerrieri	100.31
102	[86]	Molly Schnell	100.60
103	[119]	Jason Faberman	101.00
104	[123]	Lawrence J. Christiano	101.74
105	[107]	Jacob Conway	102.11
106	[112]	Adam Osman	102.45
107	[135]	Hope C. Michelson	102.92
108	[143]	John R. Birge	103.80
109	[118]	Richard Hornbeck	104.59
110	[126]	Carola Frydman	107.14
111	[125]	Anjali Adukia	107.46
112	[62]	Damon Jones	107.62
113	[127]	Daniel F. Spulber	107.64
114	[122]	Steven N. Durlauf	108.28
115	[64]	Amir Sufi	108.61
116	[133]	Daniel Aaron Hartley	110.42
117	[132]	Ezra Karger	110.86
118	[152]	William Ridley	112.17
119	[136]	Jing Zhang	113.17
120	[142]	Luojia Hu	115.21
121	[131]	Russell Weinstein	116.07
122	[87]	Geoffrey J. D. Hewings	116.61
123	[148]	Francois Velde	117.87
124	[101]	Anil Kashyap	118.40
125	[229]	Scott William Hegerty	120.81
126	[134]	Bruno H. Strulovici	121.24
127	[149]	Daniel Martin	122.83
128	[137]	Filippo Mezzanotti	123.38
129	[90]	Mar Reguant	123.49
130	[141]	Mahyar Kargar	124.14
131	[85]	C. Kirabo Jackson	125.10
132	[157]	Rebecca Taylor	125.17
133	[153]	Hardik A Marfatia	125.67
134	[129]	Christopher Blattman	127.76
135	[139]	Richard H. Thaler	128.76
136	[140]	Devin Pope	130.28
137	[77]	Dan Bernhardt	132.44
138	[151]	Sean Higgins	134.16
139	[154]	Jorge Lemus	136.00
140	[117]	Bruce D. Meyer	136.33
141	[150]	Pietro Tebaldi	136.85
142	[144]	Ameet Morjaria	137.07
143	[160]	Andrew Dillon	138.27
144	[155]	Mathias Kronlund	140.11
145	[161]	Mark Borgschulte	140.21
146	[147]	Rafael Lopes de Melo	140.84
147	[175]	Sarah Ann Janzen	142.08
148	[214]	Richard Thomas Melstrom	145.95
149	[183]	Liad Wagman	148.22
150	[138]	Paola Sapienza	148.85
151	[172]	Guglielmo Briscese	151.84
152	[197]	Sébastien Mary (Sebastien Mary)	152.47
153	[168]	David Dranove	153.05
154	[193]	Ji Hyung Lee	154.30
155	[189]	Jonas Fisher	154.63
156	[174]	Joshua T. Dean	155.51
157	[94]	Joel Mokyr	155.62
158	[176]	Michael Gibbs	155.87

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