Acknowleging my illustrious mentors
(posted July 22 2021; updated Sept 1 2022; REPEC Ranks from 2019)
So grateful for my 5 amazing mentors who are now deceased. Isolated professionally as a woman in economics specializing in the analysis of marriage markets, around 1994 I appointed a board of six mentors to whom I started sending biannual reports. The all-male board consisted of the following now deceased great economists: Gary Becker, #1 on REPEC RIP economists, Clive Granger, #2 REPEC RIP, Jacob Mincer #14 on REPEC RIP, Jack Hirshleifer, in top 8% of REPEC RIP, and Edward Lazear, founder of Personnel Economics, also highly ranked on REPEC.
Also very grateful to the one mentor who is alive: JJHeckman @heckmanequation, who is ranked #2 among all economists http://buff.ly/2tM3ts1. Wishing him a long life!
Among other things, these mentors all agreed to sponsor the journal I was trying to establish, REHO, and at some point all served on its board, a tremendous boost. https://www.springer.com/journal/11150/editors
The price an economist pays for being interdisciplinary
One price I pay for being interdisciplinary: my articles in anthropology and sociology journals are not indexed on one major index for economics: RePEc. Here is a list of all my publications not included under RAS at RePEc. Many are book chapters and are not interdisciplinary.