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Raj Chetty

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Office space for lease in downtown Boston.

New economic tracker finds flaws in U.S. recovery plan

Opportunity Insights report suggests targeted social insurance programs may be more effective

DateJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020

Tracker map.

Real-time data to address real-time problems

Harvard-developed tool lets policymakers base their economic decisions on fresh information

DateMay 7, 2020May 10, 2020

Child on swing

Given support and a choice, families move to where children do best

Harvard’s Opportunity Insights collaboration works to increase upward mobility

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DateAugust 4, 2019August 2, 2019

Chetty and Lamont

Carnegie Corporation names fellowship winners

Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont are among 32 receiving ‘Brainy Award’

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DateApril 23, 2019

Raj Chetty speaks at the JFK Jr. Forum.

Rebooting the land of opportunity

Raj Chetty says big data suggests answers for slipping standard of living

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DateMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019

Opportunity Insights, a new research institute headed by Harvard faculty, will explore why upward mobility and economic progress have stalled for so many.

Reviving the American dream, one neighborhood at a time

Raj Chetty, fellow researchers ask: Why stop at research?

DateOctober 1, 2018October 2, 2018

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.

Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills

Two universities launch partnerships to boost Detroit opportunity, reduce opioid crisis

DateSeptember 12, 2018September 21, 2018

Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty returning to Harvard

Will rejoin Economics Department, where he’ll work to leverage research on inequality into policy solutions

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DateJune 21, 2018July 24, 2018

For low-income people, the darker colors on the bar and related map indicate the lowest life expectancy — fewer than 74.5 years. The lighter colors indicate a life expectancy of more than 77.8 years. Courtesy of David Cutler

For life expectancy, money matters

'You might expect two or three years of life differential ... but 10 or 15 years … it’s an immense difference'

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DateApril 11, 2016March 15, 2019

Tough as a rugby player

Shelby Lin ’14 pushes to be the best — on the playing field, as a math scholar, as a researcher

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DateMay 23, 2014

One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to Academy publications and studies of science and technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, and the humanities, arts, and education.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 204 new members

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DateApril 23, 2014

Raj Chetty has been awarded the prestigious 2013 John Bates Clark Medal. “The driving motivation behind my research is to try to answer real-world social and economic policy questions using rigorous methods,” said Chetty.

Raj Chetty awarded Clark Medal

Prestigious economics honor considered second only to Nobel Prize

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DateApril 18, 2013March 20, 2019

Harvard Professor of Economics Raj Chetty (left) and Benjamin Warf, associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the Neonatal and Congenital Anomaly Neurosurgery Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, have received 2012 MacArthur Foundation fellowships, more commonly known as “genius grants.”

Economist, neurosurgeon win MacArthurs

Harvard’s Raj Chetty, Benjamin Warf tackled real-world problems

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DateOctober 1, 2012May 16, 2019

“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year, it boosts their income by an average of about 2 percent per year,” says Raj Chetty (left), professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Chetty was a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman.

Superstar teachers

Top educators boost students’ earnings, living standards, study says

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DateFebruary 21, 2012May 6, 2019

The personal side of economics

Chetty tries to craft fiscal policy solutions to match behaviors

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DateDecember 17, 2009