A few months ago, I posted a Twitter tweet about how to use REPEC data to rank academic couples. I followed a symmetric transparent method. My criteria takes the REPEC Ranking for one spouse + REPEC ranking for the other spouse. I treat them as equals. If an economist is not married to an economist or if a highly ranked economist is married to another economist who is not ranked on REPEC, then they are not included.
I used this list to find the top ranked women in economics.
For the actual rankings, I used the overall REPEC Ranking data. (as of July 2021)
Here are my data at the very top;
| Rank | |||
| spouse 1 | spouse 2 | sum | |
| Reinhardt | 24 | 2265 | 2289 |
| duflo | 93 | 78 | 171 |
| Currie | 114 | 610 | 725 |
| Goldin | 194 | 50 | 246 |
| Ramey | 318 | 1362 | 1680 |
| case | 401 | 49 | 450 |
| Athey | 403 | 56 | 459 |
| Grohe | 391 | 258 | 649 |
| Malmendier | 525 | 355 | 880 |
| Baxter | 621 | 130 | 751 |
| Blau | 593 | 544 | 1137 |
| Romer | 670 | 158 | 728 |
| Finkelstein | 818 | 548 | 1364 |
| Stokey | 838 | 12 | 850 |
| Bandiera | 807 | 667 | 1473 |
| costa | 964 | 320 | 1284 |
A low rank is better. So, Esther Duflo and Abhijit win the competition with Claudia and Larry close behind.
Dora and I rank #12 in the world.
Critics will say; "Where is Akerlof and Yellen? Where is Poterba and Rose?" . Follow the links above and do your homework.