Academic Ancestry

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Abhijit Banerjee

Indian American economistborn 1961

Supervised 64 doctoral students (65 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Eric Maskin as doctoral advisor and lists 36 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 9 other registers.

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Abhijit Banerjee, pictured

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Students65

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata36

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 144 people: 65 cited by thesis records, 79 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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