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July 31, 2020, Video, "This talk will first discuss how the COVID pandemic is affecting the American economy at the ZIP code level, drawing on new real time data to trace the…
July 23, 2020, Paper: "Children's chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century in America. How can we restore the American…
Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard. Raj Chetty, April 2020, Paper, "There is widespread…
February 18, 2020, Paper: "We analyze how changes in the allocation of students to colleges would affect segregation by parental income across colleges and intergenerational…
Access To The American Dream Isn't Just Determined By Income. Geography Matters. Raj Chetty, September 27, 2019, Audio, "Research shows that America's claim of social mobility is…
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence Katz, August 2019, Paper, "Low-income families in…
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods. Raj Chetty, 10/1/18, Audio, "Does the neighborhood you grow up in determine how far you move up the economic…
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, March 2018, Paper, "We study the sources of racial and ethnic…
The Impact of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimate. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, 2016, Paper, "We characterize the effects of neighborhoods on…
The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940. Raj Chetty, 2016, Paper, "One of the defining features of the “American Dream” is the ideal that children…