The first part of the paper provides a novel overview narrative of the historical evolution of PhD programmes in economics from 1880, drawing on multiple sources. The second part is empirical, and, also novel in terms of the data constructed. It attempts to bring the narrative up to date by looking at the cohorts of winners of the main young economist awards in economics in the US and Europe over the last twenty years or so and to chart at which universities they obtained their doctorates and undergraduate degrees. The total number of young (at the time of the award) economists so involved exceeds 350.

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经济学顶级研究生课程：历史演变和最新证据

本文的第一部分利用多个来源，对 1880 年以来经济学博士课程的历史演变进行了新颖的概述。第二部分是经验性的，并且在构建的数据方面也很新颖。它试图通过查看过去二十年左右美国和欧洲主要年轻经济学家经济学奖的获奖者队列，并绘制出他们在哪些大学获得博士学位和本科学位的图表，使叙述与时俱进。参与其中的年轻（在获奖时）经济学家总数超过 350 人。