Intergenerational field transitions in economics

This note documents trends of socialization and intergenerational mobility across research networks (fields) in economics. Using data on advisor-advisee pairs, we find that intergenerational field similarity is more prevalent in larger and successful fields. We then show that researchers who do choo...

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Main Authors: Facundo, Albornoz, Cabrales, Antonio, Hauk, Esther, Warnes, Pablo E.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40608/