The academic Great Gatsby Curve

Sun, Ye, Caccioli, Fabio, Li, Xiancheng and Livan, Giacomo (2024) The academic Great Gatsby Curve. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21 (217). ISSN 1742-5689

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Abstract

The Great Gatsby Curve measures the relationship between income inequality and intergenerational income persistence. By using genealogical data of over 245 000 mentor–mentee pairs and their academic publications from 22 different disciplines, this study demonstrates that an academic Great Gatsby Curve exists as well, in the form of a positive correlation between academic impact inequality and the persistence of impact across academic generations. We also provide a detailed breakdown of academic persistence, showing that the correlation between the impact of mentors and that of their mentees has increased over time, indicating an overall decrease in academic intergenerational mobility. We analyse such persistence across a variety of dimensions, including mentorship types, gender and institutional prestige.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsif
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Systemic Risk Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences L Education
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2024 11:06
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 04:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124653

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