Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263971 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2022-051/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and grandstudents of Nobel laureates are not significantly more or less likely to win. Professors of Nobel Prize winners, however, are significantly more likely to win.
Subjects: 
Network formation
Research training
Nobel prize
JEL: 
Z13
A14
D85
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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