Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations. The Dissertations of Jingyi Huang, Pawel Janas, and Sebastian Ottinger 2022 Allan Nevins Prize Competition of the Economic History Association

Abstract

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the formal establishment of the Allan Nevins Prize.Footnote1 So, with four decades worth of data on past finalists for this award, I thought it fitting to begin my discussion by looking back at their history.

Where do Nevins finalists go? Figure 1 shows the first job placement of Nevins finalists by decade. I focus on two outcomes: the fraction who landed positions in the top-40 U.S. economics departments or equivalently ranked international schools, and the fraction who obtained tenure-track positions at REPEC-ranked departments.Footnote2

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