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Extended Results
The paper reports how high Nobel laureates' fathers sat in the socioeconomic distribution, and how that has drifted down over time. Here you can explore that result across every combination the printed figures leave out: three ways of measuring a father's rank, three ways of looking at the trend, and breakdowns by prize field, gender, and birth region. Pick a measure and a subgroup to update all four charts.
National income rank · Overall · 713 laureates
Share of laureates in each 5-percentile bin.
1901: 93 → 2023: 84
1901: 84% → 2023: 60%
1901: 94% → 2023: 73%
Each trend point is a mean over a 5-year prize-year window, plotted at the window midpoint (hover
for values). The dashed red line is an OLS fit; b is the slope per year with HC1
robust standard errors (*** p<.01, ** p<.05, * p<.1). Overall fits use a
per-sample regression; field, gender, and region slopes come from a single pooled interacted model
(the paper's Table A12 structure). Top-10%/top-20% panels recode each father's rank to 0 or 100
(≥90th, ≥80th percentile) before averaging. Source: computed from data/nobelists_analysis.csv in the replication package.