Academic Ancestry

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Dave Donaldson

British economistborn 1978

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2024 and 2026; Wikidata names Robin Burgess and Tim Besley as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 6 other registers.

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Students6

Advisors on Wikidata2

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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 6 people: 6 cited by thesis records.

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