Table 1.
Descriptive statistics.
Fig 1.
Alma mater distributions, conditional on field.
Panel (a) represents estimates for Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics; Panel (b) represents estimates for Experimental Economics, Game Theory, and Labor Economics.
Fig 2.
Initial placements distributions, conditional on field.
Panel (a) represents estimates for Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics; Panel (b) represents estimates for Experimental Economics, Game Theory, and Labor Economics.
Fig 3.
Average rankings of first 10 publications, conditional on field.
Panel (a) represents estimates for Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics; Panel (b) represents estimates for Experimental Economics, Game Theory, and Labor Economics.
Table 2.
Random effects regressions: Ranking of publications using IDEAS journal rankings.
Table 3.
Random effects regressions: Controlling for initial placement.
Table 4.
Panel Tobit regressions: Ranking of publications using IDEAS journal rankings.
Table 5.
Panel Tobit regressions: Controlling for initial placement.
Table 6.
Nested random effects regressions using all unique author observations.
Fig 4.
Quantile regression coefficient associated with the effect of rankings of Almae matres on journal-publication rankings.
Solid line: Zero reference line. 95% confidence intervals in shaded area.
Fig 5.
Quantile regression coefficients for controls.
From a regression with ranked publications on the left hand side and the same controls as above on the right hand side. The horizontal line indicates the zero-line. The shaded areas indicate 95% confidence bounds. Panel (a) represents the coefficient for the ranking of Alma Mater; Panel (b) represents the coefficient for the ranking of initial placement.
Table 7.
Random effects regressions: Ranking of publications omitting unranked publications.
Table 8.
Random effects regressions: Ranking of publications using only solo authored papers.
Table 9.
Random effects regressions: Top 50 authors per field.
Table 10.
Random effects regressions: Of authors ranked between 51-100 per field.
Table 11.
OLS regressions: Top 50 authors per field.
Table 12.
OLS regressions: Authors ranked from 51-100 per field.
Table 13.
OLS regressions: All top 100 authors.
Fig 6.
Average predicted probabilities for top 5 publications & average initial placement rankings, controlling for ability, as a function of Alma mater ranking.
Panel (a) represents estimates for Top 5 probabilities as a function of Alma mater ranking; Panel (b) estimates initial placements as a function of Alma mater ranking.
Table 14.
Panel probit models: Dummy variable which takes a value of 1 for a top 5 publication.
Fig 7.
Predicted acceptance probabilities to a top 5 journal against Alma mater ranking at the time of graduation using splines.
Table 15.
Random effects models: Dummy variable which takes a value of 1 for a QJE publication.
Table 16.
Random effects models: Dummy variable which takes a value of 1 for a JPE publication.
Table 17.
Quantile regression models: Ranking of university or other institution.