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Advisor Effects in the Economics PhD Research Production Function

An empirical study of how doctoral advising shapes graduate students' post-PhD research output at elite economics programs, treating advising as an input to a research production function. Students learn how advisor attributes (own research output, coauthoring, field affinity) relate to student success, and how distinguishing individual-level associations from school-level aggregates separates genuine causal advisor effects from the selection of promising students by prolific advisors.