Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty recently spoke on "Improving Economic Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data" at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
Professor Chetty's talk at the IOP was also covered by The Harvard Gazette in "Rebooting the Land of Opportunity" (March 7, 2019).
His recent work at Harvard can be found online through Opportunity Insights, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization based at Harvard University and directed by Professor Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren.
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also the Director of Opportunity Insights (formerly the Equality of Opportunity Project), which uses “big data” to understand how we can give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding. Chetty's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on topics ranging from tax policy and unemployment insurance to education and affordable housing has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and Congressional testimony.
Chetty received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard's history. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he was a professor at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Chetty has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field.