Possible safety/match options for an international economics student?

Williams, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Wesleyan, Colgate and Hamilton offer some of the U S.'s strongest economics departments:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html

These schools would offer you a blend of matches and reaches. (You can sort based on Common Data Set information.)

If you are female, also consider Wellesley and Barnard.