Academic Ancestry

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Milton Friedman

American economist and statistician1912 to 2006

Wikidata names Simon Kuznets as doctoral advisor and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

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

    Simon Kuznets

Taught3

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

    Phillip D. Cagan

    born 1927
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Gary S. Becker

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Joaquín Lavín

    born 1953

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 246 people: 246 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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