Academic Ancestry

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Kenneth Arrow

American economist1921 to 2017

Wikidata names Harold Hotelling as doctoral advisor and lists 47 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Kenneth Arrow, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata47

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Harold Hotelling

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Anthony Downs

    born 1930

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 716 people: 716 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.