Academic Ancestry

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Andrew B. Whinston

American economistborn 1936

Wikidata names William W. Cooper as doctoral advisor and lists 106 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata106

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 168 people: 168 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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