Cabrales, A;
Albornoz, F;
Hauk, E;
Warnes, P;
(2017)
Intergenerational eld transitions in economics.
Economics Letters
, 154
pp. 1-5.
10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.001.
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Abstract
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 choose different fields than those of their advisors are more likely to switch to highly demanded fields in the job market. These results are consistent with the equilibrium of a model in which advisors’ have concerns for their advisees’ socialization and production outcomes. We also document a positive relation between field productivity and the median level of co-authorship at the field level, which is consistent with complementaries between socialization and productive efforts.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Intergenerational eld transitions in economics |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.001 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.001 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. |
Keywords: | Intergenerational field mobility; Economics fields; Advisor-advisee relationships; Field productivity in economics |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1540277 |
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