Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250626 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14965
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that faculty educated at top-ranked Ph.D. universities are overrepresented; e.g., over half of our sample attended a top 15 university, and over a third attended a top six university. We find similar, but less pronounced, patterns for B.A. origins; e.g., over a third of those with a U.S. B.A. attended a top 15 university.
Subjects: 
doctoral origins
Ph.D. origins
bachelor origins
B.A. origins
academic labor market
economics faculty
JEL: 
I2
I23
J2
J4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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