Raj Chetty

Harvard University

1875 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (34)

1.

Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States

American Economic Association, Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF's Call for Long-Term Research Agendas
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Aug 2011
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (deceased) and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Economic Impacts of Covid-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

NBER Working Paper No. w27431
Number of pages: 135 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard University
Downloads 184 (280,322)
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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w20928
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Raj Chetty
Harvard University
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The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Sep 2016
Raj Chetty, László Sándor and Adam Szeidl
Harvard University, Office of Research and Central European University
Downloads 179 (287,212)
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Portfolio Choice, Housing, Household Finance, Consumption Commitments

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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

NBER Working Paper No. w23618
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 25 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

NBER Working Paper No. w17699
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 08 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 13 May 2023
Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w19843
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 145 (342,994)
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers Ii: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

NBER Working Paper No. w19424
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

NBER Working Paper No. w19844
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Downloads 109 (425,231)
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Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data

NBER Working Paper No. w18433
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 06 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 15 May 2022
Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 107 (430,888)
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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w21156
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads 97 (461,175)
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

NBER Working Paper No. w19423
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects

NBER Working Paper No. w23001
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 08 May 2022
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940

NBER Working Paper No. w22910
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Harvard University, Stanford University - Department of Sociology, Stanford University - Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 77 (531,502)
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Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w24441
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 26 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census and Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census
Downloads 72 (552,018)
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The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility

NBER Working Paper No. w25147
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 16 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census and Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census
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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility Ii: County-Level Estimates

NBER Working Paper No. w23002
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely

NBER Working Paper No. w26463
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 18 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Statistics
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Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments

NBER Working Paper No. w17519
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 15 May 2023
Princeton University, Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Department of Economics and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

NBER Working Paper No. w24062
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2023
UCLA, Harvard University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Department of the Treasury and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w26164
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
Columbia University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and MIT Sloan
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Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

NBER Working Paper No. w18565
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2023
Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics, The Danish National Centre for Social Research and Harvard University
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Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings

NBER Working Paper No. w18232
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 21 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Determinants of Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility: Using Test Scores to Measure Undermatching

NBER Working Paper No. w26748
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 18 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, University of California, Berkeley, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood

NBER Working Paper No. w21936
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Stanford University, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Harvard University
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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges

HKS Working Paper No. RWP23-021
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 16 Aug 2023
Raj Chetty, David Deming and John Friedman
Harvard University, Academic Dean, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Brown University
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Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors

NBER Working Paper No. w25493
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
UCLA, Harvard University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Department of the Treasury and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w20290
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2023
Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Office of Research
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Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates Who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard

NBER Working Paper No. w26961
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023
Swarthmore College, Harvard University, Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover
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Using Lagged Outcomes to Evaluate Bias in Value-Added Models

NBER Working Paper No. w21961
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss When Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples

NBER Working Paper No. w25626
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2023
Raj Chetty and John Friedman
Harvard University and Brown University
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Response to Rothstein (2014)

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10768
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Aug 2015
Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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education policy, teacher effects, value-added models

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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12544
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 02 Jan 2018
UCLA, Harvard University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Department of the Treasury and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 451-488, 2009
Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Raj Chetty
Harvard University

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