“…Ph.D. origins/networks of faculty have been studied to a greater or lesser extent in many fields, such as history, business, computer science, finance, law, political science, sociology, English, political science, anthropology, and management (Clauset et al, 2015;Morgan et al, 2018;Way et al, 2016;Bair, 2003;Jones and Xiong, 2021;Segall and Feldman, 2018;Schmidt and Chingos, 2007;Burris, 2004;Headworth and Freese, 2016;Colander and Zhuo, 2015;Fowler et al, 2007;Kawa et al, 2019;Bedeian et al, 2010). But in more than 25 years, economics Ph.D. origins among faculty have not been thoroughly examined across the number of departments that we consider in this paper.…”