The Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty and the Education of Economics Doctorates


Publication: Journal of Economic Education

Volume: Volume 30, No. 1

Issue: Winter 1999

Pages: 80-88

Author(s): Paul Pieper (University of Illinois) and Rachel Willis (University of North Carolina)

Address (Principal Author):Paul Pieper, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607-7121, (312) 996-5214, fax: (312) 996-3344

Internet Address (Principal Author):pjpieper@uic.edu

Title: The Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty and the Education of Economics Doctorates

Abstract: The authors examine the doctoral origins of economics faculty who are training new doctorates in economics. The doctoral origins are highly concentrated, with the top 10 schools producing 47 percent of the economics faculty at Ph.D. granting schools, 54 percent of the doctoral-production weighted faculty, and 67 percent of the thesis supervisors at 47 top schools.

Key Words:graduate education in economics, economics faculty, ranking graduate programs

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