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According to data posted by Greg Mankiw, it may be because I went to Swarthmore College, the undergraduate institution that produced the highest number of economics Ph.D’s per capita. Clicking through to the study by John J. Siegfried and Wendy A. Stock, I see that this covers Ph.D’s earned between 1966 and 2003. For much of this period, the late Bernie Saffran was an economics professor at Swarthmore. It will be interesting to see if there is a drop-off in Swarthmore’s ranking in later periods.
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Isaac
Apr 11 2009 at 7:34pm
Well, last year Swarthmore sent 5 people to econ grad school and this year 4 more are going. So I think the tradition will continue.
Jacob Oost
Apr 12 2009 at 5:04pm
This data explains why so many economists are of the saltwater school, in spite of most of their ideas on macro having been debunked.
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