David Autor and Sendhil Mullainathan named 2025 Clarivate Citation Laureates

Economics faculty members David Autor and Sendhil Mullainathan are among 22 researchers named 2025 Citation Laureates by Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. Clarivate established the program in 2002 to honor researchers of Nobel class whose work reflects extraordinary influence and global impact. Autor, Mullainathan, and the other 2025 Citation Laureates in Economics are celebrated for research that has "reshaped policy, deepened insights into humam behavior, and influenced global economic systems."

Experts at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate use publication and citation data to identify potential Nobel Prize recipients, and Citation Laureates are selected from this group using a combination of rigorous citation analysis and expert insight. Since the inception of the program, 83 Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.

David Autor

Autor is the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor of Economics and a co-director of the MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. He is recognized along with Harvard's Larry Katz for their "seminal analysis of wage structure, earnings inequality, educational advance, and technological change."

Sendhil Mullainathan

Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He and Marianne Bertrand of the Chicago Booth School of Business are honored for "joint research on racial discrimination, corporate governance, and other aspects of labor economic determined by psychology and culture."