Plausibly Exogenous [1233] - Advisor Matters (06/18/2023)
LHS Variable
Student job market outcome
RHS Variable
Connectedness of a student’s advisor in the coauthor network
Source of Exogenous Variation
(i) Changes in the centrality of the adviser’s coauthors in the year of a student’s placement as an exogenous shock to the adviser’s Eigenvector centrality; (ii) death of Economists as an exogenous shock
- Rose and Shekhar (2023), “Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market”