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Sendhil Mullainathan

Indian economistborn 1973

Supervised 12 doctoral students (14 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Andrei Shleifer, Drew Fudenberg, and Lawrence F. Katz as doctoral advisors and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Sendhil Mullainathan, pictured

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Students14

Advisors on Wikidata3

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Students on Wikidata8

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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 31 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 19 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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