Raj Chetty
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty is an Indian-American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Offered tenure at the age of 28, Chetty became one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2020, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics, the highest monetary award recognizing achievements in science and research, in India.
Raj Chetty's Published Works
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Published Works
- Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States (2014) (2200)
- Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence (2009) (1841)
- The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014. (2016) (1659)
- The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment (2015) (1645)
- How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project Star. (2010) (1387)
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates (2014) (1043)
- The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects (2016) (724)
- Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility (2014) (704)
- Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply (2009) (693)
- Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records (2009) (645)
- Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins (2011) (642)
- Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods (2008) (641)
- Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (2008) (640)
- A New Method of Estimating Risk Aversion (2003) (631)
- The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 (2016) (586)
- The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (2011) (572)
- How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data (2020) (568)
- Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark (2012) (517)
- Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings (2012) (482)
- The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility Ii: County-Level Estimates (2016) (472)
- Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017) (471)
- Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences (2006) (448)
- Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (2018) (420)
- Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective (2015) (419)
- The Economic Impacts of Covid-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data (2020) (372)
- Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients (2009) (369)
- Salience and taxation: theory and evidence (2008) (347)
- The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility (2018) (310)
- Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance (2008) (310)
- Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation (2017) (291)
- The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job? (2007) (275)
- Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies (2005) (226)
- The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates (2015) (226)
- The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice (2010) (223)
- Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective* (2019) (211)
- The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood. NBER Working Paper No. 17699. (2011) (180)
- Identification and Inference With Many Invalid Instruments (2011) (164)
- Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm (2010) (159)
- Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice (2019) (148)
- Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States (2010) (143)
- Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data (2012) (136)
- Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020) (126)
- Erratum: Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (2008) (126)
- Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (2008) (123)
- The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut on Corporate Behavior: Interpreting the Evidence (2006) (109)
- Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood (2016) (106)
- What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics (2014) (98)
- Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance (2008) (93)
- NEW EVIDENCE ON THE LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF TAX CREDITS (2011) (79)
- The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely (2019) (72)
- Consumption Commitments and Habit Formation (2004) (69)
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates (2013) (67)
- Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States (2005) (65)
- Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence (2007) (63)
- The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation (2009) (56)
- Consumption Commitments: Neoclassical Foundations for Habit Formation (2005) (54)
- Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility (2022) (51)
- The Lifecycle of Inventors (2016) (50)
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply (2017) (50)
- Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records (2010) (50)
- Estimating Treatment Effects using Multiple Surrogates: The Role of the Surrogate Score and the Surrogate Index (2016) (44)
- An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation (2007) (42)
- THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TAX EXPENDITURES: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL VARIATION ACROSS THE U.S. 1 (2013) (41)
- Combining Experimental and Observational Data to Estimate Treatment Effects on Long Term Outcomes (2020) (40)
- The Effects of Taxes on Market Responses to Dividend Announcements and Payments: What Can We Learn from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut? (2005) (37)
- Interest Rates, Irreversibility, and Backward-Bending Investment (2007) (34)
- Consumption Commitments and Asset Prices (2004) (33)
- Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes? Preliminary Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut (2004) (28)
- A Bound on Risk Aversion Using Labor Supply Elasticities (2006) (26)
- Optimal Unemployment Insurance When Income Effects are Large (2004) (25)
- Using Lagged Outcomes to Evaluate Bias in Value-Added Models (2016) (25)
- Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness (2022) (24)
- A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss When Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples (2019) (23)
- Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations? Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity (2005) (21)
- Discussion of the American Statistical Association's Statement (2014) on Using Value-Added Models for Educational Assessment (2014) (18)
- Expanding and diversifying the pool of undergraduates who study economics: Insights from a new introductory course at Harvard (2020) (16)
- Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors (2019) (16)
- Consumption Commitments : A Foundation for Reference-Dependent Preferences and Habit Formation (2010) (16)
- Joseph Schumpeter Lecture, EEA Annual Congress 2017: Do Tax Cuts Produce more Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives VerSus Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors (2019) (14)
- Great Teaching: Measuring Its Effects on Students' Future Earnings (2012) (14)
- Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance (2007) (12)
- The E ¤ ect of Adjustment Costs and Institutional Constraints on Labor Supply Elasticities : Evidence from Denmark (2009) (12)
- Measuring and Understanding the Distribution and Intra/Inter-Generational Mobility of Income and Wealth (2020) (12)
- Who Becomes an Inventor in America? (2017) (12)
- Introduction: The Challenge and Promise of Dominican Black Studies (2015) (11)
- Prior Test Scores Do Not Provide Valid Placebo Tests of Teacher Switching Research Designs (2014) (10)
- SUBSIDIES VS. NUDGES: WHICH POLICIES INCREASE SAVING THE MOST? (2013) (10)
- IMPROVING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM BIG DATA (2020) (9)
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Response to Rothstein (2014) (2015) (9)
- Gender Gaps in Childhood: skills, Behavior, and laBor Market preparedness ‡ Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood † (2016) (8)
- Design characteristics, risk of bias, and reporting of randomised controlled trials supporting approvals of cancer drugs by European Medicines Agency, 2014-16: cross-sectional analysis (2019) (8)
- RESPONSE TO ROTHSTEIN ( 2014 ) ON “ REVISITING THE IMPACTS OF TEACHERS ” (2014) (8)
- Labor Supply and Risk Aversion : A Calibration Theorem (2004) (8)
- The borders of Dominicanidad: Race, nation, and archives of contradiction (2019) (7)
- DOES LOCAL TAX FINANCING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERPETUATE INEQUALITY? (2011) (7)
- Why do Unemployment Bene fi ts Raise Unemployment Durations ? The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income E ff ects (2005) (7)
- The Determinants of Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility: Using Test Scores to Measure Undermatching (2020) (6)
- Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: An Application to Taxation and Labor Supply (2009) (6)
- Moral Hazard vs . Liquidity in Unemployment Insurance (2007) (6)
- Effects of Local Health Interventions on Inequality in Life Expectancy: New Publicly Available Data. (2016) (5)
- Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference (2006) (5)
- The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxes and Its Consequences: A Case for Tax Deductions? (2006) (5)
- $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers (2010) (4)
- Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh. IGC Working Paper (2012) (4)
- The Economic Impact of Tax Expenditures: Evidence from Spatial Variation Across the U.S.∗ (2015) (4)
- Information and Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Evidence from an Experiment with EITC Clients at H&R Block (2008) (4)
- Residential time-of-use pricing : an econometric assessment. (2009) (4)
- Improving Opportunities for Economic Mobility: New Evidence and Policy Lessons (2016) (4)
- Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Claimants (2009) (4)
- Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply to Rothstein (2017) (4)
- The Tragicomedy of Anticolonial Overcoming: Toussaint Louverture and The Black Jacobins on Stage (2014) (3)
- The Relationship between Life Expectancy and Income in the United States, 2001-2014 (2015) (3)
- Should Unemployment Bene…ts be Extended? An Economic Framework and Empirical Evidence (2010) (3)
- "La Calle Es Libre": Race, Recognition, and Dominican Street Theater (2013) (3)
- The SOI Databank: A case study in leveraging administrative data in support of evidence-based policymaking (2018) (3)
- Long-Run Drivers of Disability Insurance Rates (2016) (2)
- Chapter 1. Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States: New Evidence and Policy Lessons (2016) (2)
- Introduction (2015) (2)
- Relationships Between Income, Health Behaviors, and Life Expectancy--Reply. (2016) (2)
- Do Consumption Commitments A ¤ ect Risk Preferences ? Evidence from Portfolio Choice (2008) (2)
- When do Countercyclical Policies Increase Economic Stability ? (2005) (2)
- The Social Network of Firms: Can Social Incentives and Taxpayer Recognition Improve Tax Compliance? (2012) (2)
- Social mobility in the United States depends heavily on where you live (2017) (1)
- The changing focus of public economics research, 1980 - 2010 (2012) (1)
- Does Cash-in-Hand Matter? New Evidence from the Labor Market (2006) (1)
- RESPONSE TO ADLER ( 2014 ) REVIEW OF “ MEASURING THE IMPACTS OF TEACHERS ” (2014) (1)
- IFS Annual lecture by Professor Raj Chetty (Harvard) - The determinants of social mobility: New evidence and policy lessons (2014) (1)
- Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh December 2012 PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE WITHOUT PERMISSION (2013) (1)
- Exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor (2018) (0)
- 1 The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling * April 2018 (2018) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SOCIAL CAPITAL II: DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC CONNECTEDNESS (2022) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CONSUMPTION COMMITMENTS AND HABIT FORMATION (2014) (0)
- HOW DO TAX-DEFERRED SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AFFECT SAVINGS BEHAVIOR? EVIDENCE FROM DENMARK ∗ (2011) (0)
- Consumption Commitments, Risk Preferences, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (2003) (0)
- Papers: A Discussion of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the TwentyFirst Century (2015) (0)
- Lost Einsteins: who becomes an inventor in America? (2018) (0)
- Evidence from Danish Tax Records (2010) (0)
- Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth (2022) (0)
- briefcase moving to opportunity (2015) (0)
- The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution by Jeremy Glick (2021) (0)
- Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time (2022) (0)
- Appendix for “ Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood ” (2016) (0)
- Book Review (2014) (0)
- The borders of Dominicanidad: Race, nation, and archives of contradiction (2019) (0)
- PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE: DO NOT CITE Connecting Theory to Data in Analyzing Social Insurance∗ (2011) (0)
- Online Appendix Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States (2020) (0)
- Comment on "Policy Options for Financing Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan" (2007) (0)
- 'Popular Memory' and Social Change in South African liistorical Drama of the Seventies in English: the Case of Credo Mutwzi'!; ufisilirnela (2007) (0)
- VATT Working Papers 132 (2020) (0)
- "Prophet of a Coming New World": Eric Walrond at the Crossroads of Pan-Caribbean, Pan-American, and Pan-African Literary Studies (2014) (0)
- Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples (2019) (0)
- Can a Mulatta Be a Black Jacobin? (2019) (0)
- Response to “The Moving to Opportunity Experiment: What Do Heterogeneous Estimates of the Effect of Moving Imply About Causes?†(2020) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTIMAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE (2014) (0)
- Names/Affiliations/Emails of SALA 2006 Presenters/Chairs (2006) (0)
- $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers: Your Kindergarten Classroom Can Leave a Lasting Impact on Your Earnings and Your Quality of Life Long after Circle Time Is a Distant Memory (2010) (0)
- CEP Discussion Paper No 1597 January 2019 Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins ? The Impact of Financial Incentives vs . Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors (2018) (0)
- Codebook for Publicly Available Data on Social Capital (2022) (0)
- Race Fundamentalism: Caribbean Theater and the Challenge to Black Diaspora (2013) (0)
- THE PRINCETON ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (2019) (0)
- “Teach His People the Value of Unity”: Black Diaspora, Women, and Una Marson’s Pocomania (2016) (0)
- Archives of Afro-Affirmation (2018) (0)
- The long-term effects of teachers The estimated teacher effects include both direct and indi- (2012) (0)
- Value-added measures of teachers : Research and policy (2013) (0)
- Introduction to "Measuring and Understanding the Distribution and Intra/Inter-Generational Mobility of Income and Wealth" (2020) (0)
- Evidence from Bangladesh (2016) (0)
- Colloquium “ Salience and Taxation : Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications ” (2009) (0)
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