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Andrei Gorshkov

@gorshkov.bsky.social

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Postdoc at Uppsala University | PhD from Aarhus University

Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

That was "Peers, Heirs, and Careers: Labor Market Effects of Alumni Networks" a joint work with Alex Fischer, @tmsandoy.bsky.social, and Jeanette Walldorf. Please, check out the full paper and my other work: sites.google.com/view/andreigorshkov/

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Conclusion - Alumni connections among business school peers shape career progression - But they benefit more students from the most wealthy families - Hence, they potentially reinforce inequality and impede social mobility

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

What do we see? Significant career benefits from studying with more top 1% peers for students with similar backgrounds. BUT! There are no such effects for students coming from less privileged backgrounds.

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Finding 3: In general, studying with students from rich families is beneficial… for students from rich families! Question: What is the effect of the share of the top 1% group peers on career outcomes? (Note: here we rely on the group assignment again)

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

These transitions result in higher wages and better jobs. But... The benefits are driven by descendants of the top 1% of families

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Finding 2: It pays off to work with your peers! Identification strategy: compare job transitions to former group peers to transitions to former cohort peers (Note: here we cannot rely completely on the random assignment for identification)

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

(C) These jobs are often linked to their parents (D) ❗The effect is 4x larger if both students are from the top 1% families❗

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

(A) Peers shape career paths -> Students choose industries, occupations, and employers in line with their peers (B) The effect is driven by former students working in the same workplaces

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Finding 1: Alumni networks work! Identification strategy: compare a pair of students that share a tutorial group to a pair that share a cohort but not a tutorial group (Note: the group assignment helps us to get to the causal effect)

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

The paper combines 1️⃣ CBS's Business Economics Program Records (since 1986): (conditionally) random tutorial group assignment graduates often come from the elite and become the elite 2️⃣ Rich Danish register data - detailed information on careers and family background

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

My #JMP examines whether alumni connections from elite business schools, (often dominated by students from wealthy families) benefit career advancement uniformly across students’ socio-economic backgrounds.

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Andrei Gorshkov @gorshkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

❗JobMarketPaper❗ Does 'knowing the right people' help to make it to the top? Absolutely! But here's the catch: it works best if you're from ‘the right’ (read: wealthy) background.

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