Sites like NBER

01 · Entity

About NBER

NBER nber.org

National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Wikidata: economic research organization in the United States

Top 10K · #4,165 English 14 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Private nonprofit US research organization that publishes economic working papers, research digests and bulletins, books, and conference materials, and officially dates US business cycle recessions.

Who it’s for

Economists, academics, policymakers, business professionals

Business model

Grants, donations and subscriptions

• economic research institute
• NBER working papers
• business cycle dating
• recession dates
• NBER Digest
• economics conferences
• health economics bulletin
• economic research publications

02 · Embedding space

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   RePEc repec.org Top 10K

   RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

   RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

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   Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

   Our World in Data

   Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

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   Brookings brookings.edu Top 10K English

   Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.

   The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

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   The Conversation theconversation.com Top 10K

   The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

   Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

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   Pew Research Center pewresearch.org Top 10K English

   Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research

   Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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6. 06
   Better Business Bureau bbb.org Top 10K English

   American organization

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   RAND Corporation rand.org Top 10K

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   American research organization

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   Council on Foreign Relations cfr.org Top 10K English

   Council on Foreign Relations

   The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.

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   National Academies nationalacademies.org Top 10K English

   National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

   Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

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10. 10
    CDC cdc.gov Top 1K English

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC

    United States government public health agency

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    Bureau of Labor Statistics bls.gov Top 10K English

    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

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    ProPublica propublica.org Top 10K English

    ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest

    ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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13. 13
    SSRN ssrn.com Top 10K

    Content Blocked

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content

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14. 14
    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English

    medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

    medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication

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15. 15
    United States Census Bureau census.gov Top 10K English

    Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage

    The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

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    NSF nsf.gov Top 10K English

    NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

    NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

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    NPR npr.org Top 1K

    American nonprofit media organization

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    nih.gov Top 1K English

    US government medical research agency

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    Federal Reserve System federalreserve.gov Top 10K

    central banking system of the United States

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    Office for National Statistics ons.gov.uk Top 10K English

    Home - Office for National Statistics

    The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

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04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What NBER is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.