Academic Ancestry

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Olivier Blanchard

French economist and professorborn 1948

Supervised 17 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Stanley Fischer as doctoral advisor and lists 85 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Olivier Blanchard, pictured

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Students17

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata85

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 389 people: 17 cited by thesis records, 372 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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