Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Michael E. Rose
Author-Name-First: Michael
Author-Name-Last: E. Rose
Author-Email: michael.rose@ip.mpg.de
Author-Workplace-Name:` Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Author-Name: Suraj Shekhar
Author-Name-First: Suraj
Author-Name-Last: Shekhar
Author-Email: suraj.shekhar@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name:` Department of Economics, Ashoka University
Title: Indirect Contacts in Hiring: The Economics Job Market
Abstract: Using two identification strategies, we demonstrate a positive relationship between the connectedness of a PhD adviser (in the coauthor network) and the placement of her student. In method one, identification is achieved by using changes in the centrality of the adviser’s coauthors in the year of student placement as an exogenous shock to the adviser’s centrality. Our second strategy uses the death of faculty members as an exogenous shock to show that the probability of a student being placed at a particular university reduces when the ‘social distance’ between her adviser and that university increases due to the death.
length: 32
Creation-Date: 20210204
Revision-Date: 
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File-URL: https://dp.ashoka.edu.in/ash/wpaper/paper55_0.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf 
Number: 55
Keywords: academic labor market
Keywords: Placement
Keywords: referrals
Keywords: social network
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:55