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Tag: Raj Chetty
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Nation & World
Chetty, Sandel on what’s crushing American Dream
Big data shows that being rich matters a lot more than how hard someone works. Raj Chetty and Michael Sandel offer insights as part of the Reimagining the Economy series.
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Campus & Community
Springer, Chetty win Ledlie Prize
Biologist created better, faster COVID test system; economist uses big data to uncover myths, barriers to achieving American Dream.
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Campus & Community
The quote machine
Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.
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Work & Economy
Turns out it’s not who you know that determines economic success
Big-data study by Raj Chetty and team shows who we interact with while growing up plays key role in upward mobility.
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Campus & Community
Time of ‘democracy in crisis’
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund leader urges steps to rescue democracy.
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Campus & Community
Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Campus & Community
Gift that promises to keep on giving
Harvard economics faculty says new facility will foster greater collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity.
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Nation & World
Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Work & Economy
Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
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Work & Economy
New economic tracker finds flaws in U.S. recovery plan
Opportunity Insights report suggests targeted social insurance programs may be more effective than U.S. economic recovery strategies.
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Work & Economy
Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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Nation & World
Given support and a choice, families move to where children do best
A collaboration between Harvard’s Opportunity Insights and public housing agencies in Washington state found that giving support and advice about housing options to families with housing choice vouchers led to significantly more of them moving to areas where children have higher recorded rates of upward mobility.
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Campus & Community
Carnegie Corporation names fellowship winners
Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Nation & World
Rebooting the land of opportunity
Harvard Professor Raj Chetty says big data suggests some ways to counter the slipping U.S. standard of living.
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Work & Economy
Reviving the American dream, one neighborhood at a time
New economics research and policy institute to probe ways to boost opportunity in the U.S.
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Work & Economy
Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills
Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
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Campus & Community
Raj Chetty returning to Harvard
Economist Raj Chetty, who left Harvard for Stanford in 2015, is returning to Harvard this summer to become the inaugural William A. Ackman Professor of Economics, and continue his work on American inequality.
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Health
For life expectancy, money matters
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that income is closely correlated with life expectancy, with the richest Americans living as much as 15 years longer than the poorest — and even the poor living longer in wealthy areas.
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Campus & Community
Tough as a rugby player
A fierce field general on the women’s rugby team, Harvard College senior Shelby Lin is also a math and economics star with a bright future.
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Campus & Community
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 204 new members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 204 new members, including 16 from Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Raj Chetty awarded Clark Medal
Harvard Professor of Economics Raj Chetty has been awarded the 2013 John Bates Clark Medal in recognition of his work, which combines empirical evidence and theory to inform the design of more effective government policies on everything from taxation to unemployment to education.
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Campus & Community
Economist, neurosurgeon win MacArthurs
Raj Chetty, professor of economics, and Benjamin Warf, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, are among 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, or “genius grants.”
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Nation & World
Superstar teachers
As leaders in government and business search for ways to strengthen the U.S. recovery, new research from faculty at Harvard and Columbia indicates that elementary school teachers have an impact on how much their students earn as adults and, by extension, on the nation’s economy.
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Campus & Community
The personal side of economics
Harvard’s newest tenured economics professor tries to craft policy solutions that match the ways that we behave.
