Nobel begets Nobel in economics
| dc.contributor.author | Tol, Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-28T06:26:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-28T06:26:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-11 | |
| dc.description | A Nobel Prize begets Nobel Prizes, or so the story goes. There is an extraordinary concentration of winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Tol, 2022), in departments, as co-authors, as students, and even personally. This may be clusters of quality: The best professors come together in the best schools (Ellison, 2013), inspire, teach and stimulate each other (Azoulay et al., 2010, Borjas & Doran, 2012, Bosquet & Combes, 2017, Oyer, 2006), select the best students (Athey et al., 2007), and train them well Jones and Sloan (2021). | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 grand students of Nobel laureates are significantly less likely to win. Professors and fellow students of Nobel Prize winners, however, are significantly more likely to win. keywords: Network formation; Nobel prize; Research training | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tol, R. S. (2023). Nobel begets Nobel in economics. Journal of Informetrics, 17(4), 101457. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101457 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.adu.ac.ae/handle/1/5456 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Science Direct | |
| dc.title | Nobel begets Nobel in economics | |
| dc.type | Article |