Economist of the Week: Raj Chetty

Full name: Nadarjan “Raj” Chetty (1979)

Education: B.A., summa cum laude in Economics (Harvard University)

Ph.D. in Economics (Harvard University)

 

Position: Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Co-Director, Public Economics Program, NBER (with Amy Finkelstein)

 

Field: Public economics, tax policy, social inequalty, public policy, quantitative methods

Top 3 Papers: Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States

Salience and taxation: Theory and evidence

The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Podcast: Is the American Dream Really Dead? (Freakonomics)

Presentation: Raj Chetty on the economic impacts of COVID-19: Real-time Evidence from private sector data (Princeton University)

Famous Students: Camille Landais, Will Dobbie, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Arash Nekoei

 

Awards: AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Prize (2012)

Sherwin Rosen Prize (2016)

 

Top books: Finance and Economics Discussion Series: Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

CV

Google scholar

 

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1- © Esther Yoon-Ji Kang / WBEZ

2-  © Barcelona School of Economics Website

3- © Opportunity  Insight Website

 

Author: Hasti Mighati