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The pattern of hires among graduate departments shows a clear hierarchy, with a few departments supplying a large share of the faculty. This paper analyzes the relationship between department of origin and employing department of sociology in 1965, 1983, and 2007. It considers two primary issues: (1) the overall distribution of the number of placements by different departments and (2) the stability of individual rankings. On the first point, a small number of departments provide a large fraction of the faculty at other graduate departments, especially at the more prominent ones. However, the degree of dominance by the leading institutions declined between 1965 and 2007. On the second point, there is a high degree of stability, but no evidence of a long-term "memory"--that is, controlling for 1983 ranking, 1965 ranking did not have a significant effect on current ranking.

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Is this a reference to Danny Schneider's work? :

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Interesting, but seems to miss 2 huge things: (1) Some departments (Wisconsin, Berkeley) have way more graduates than others, and (2) Some departments have enormous drop-out/kick-out rates (Chicago in some departments I've heard).

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