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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Unemployment insurance (UI) is an important factor in the US labor market. In 2019, more than 5 million Americans received UI benefits. Employer UI taxes...

Counting the homeless population involves substantial challenges, most importantly the inability to use address-based survey approaches that are the...

The growth rate of labor productivity is a key determinant of the long-run level of earnings. The level and...