Economics Graduates North-America 1997-2017 with RePEc handles and Scopus IDs

This dataset contains information on dissertations of 20,559 new Economics PhDs who graduated from North American institutions between 1997/98 and 2016/17. It includes JEL codes and subjects (keywords) for nearly all dissertations. I added RePEc handles for 6,166 PhDs and Scopus IDs for 12,253 PhDs. The data result from a merger of the AEA's EconLit database and the Journal of Economic Literature's December issues. It was deduplicated and corrected where appropriate (see Notes).