Ranking the Graduate Ph.D Econ Class of 1993

I  finished my Ph.D. in 1993. I was a member of a talented graduating class coming out of the University of Chicago.   The UChicago graduate placement committee seemed to believe in the invisible hand with respect to the market for new Ph.D. economists (i.e. they weren't working that hard to place us).  I wonder if I was ranked in the top 8 of my graduating class of roughly 25 who went on the market that year.   One Nobel Laureate advised me to delay going on the market.  My thesis adviser wondered what I was actually writing my thesis on. That was not a great launch.  But, flash forward to October 2014 and This IDEAS ranking claims that I'm #8 across the world's cohort of economists from my graduation year.   That's intellectual growth and progress.

1993

Rank	Author	Score
1	John Michael van Reenen Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	2.21
2	Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France	2.32
3	Charles I. Jones Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)	4.08
4	James Alan Robinson Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)	5.28
5	Serena Ng Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)	6.83
6	Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	7.89
7	Yacine Ait-Sahalia Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)	8.52
8	Matthew Edwin Kahn Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA)	8.55
9	Casey Mulligan Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)	9.08
10	Mike Wright Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom	10.13