Program Director
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he also directs Opportunity Insights, a research organization that studies economic mobility. His research focuses on the measurement and explanation of mobility across income and social strata, with particular attention to the role of government policies. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2003.
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Measuring poverty is a long-standing challenge. The official US poverty rate is based on households’ before-tax-and-transfer income....
Counting the homeless population involves substantial challenges, most importantly the inability to use address-based survey approaches that are the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on the US labor market. Some of these — most notably the drop in...