Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Franco Modigliani

Italian-American economist1918 to 2003

Supervised 7 doctoral students (12 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Abba P. Lerner and Jacob Marschak as doctoral advisors, lists 27 doctoral students, and names Jacob Marschak as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Franco Modigliani, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students12

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata27

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

    Jacob Marschak

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 122 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 115 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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