Jones, Todd R.; Sloan, Arielle A. - 2021
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 … 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 …