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| Raj Chetty
September 24, 2020, Audio, "Dr. Shelley Hearne, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Advocacy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the need for public health system changes. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Personal Finance Editor Ben Steverman talk about Harvard economist Raj Chetty finding economic carnage in the wealthiest zip codes. Former Republican Strategist and…
| Raj Chetty | Nathaniel Hendren
September 21, 2020, Video: "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data."
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| Raj Chetty
August 10, 2020, Audio: "Small businesses are struggling. But what communities are hardest hit? Award-winning economist Raj Chetty shares his surprising findings and insight. Guests - Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University. Director of "Opportunity Insights," a research group that’s coming up with new ways to generate and analyze "big data" about the economic impact of the pandemic."
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| Raj Chetty
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 impacts of the crisis on consumer spending, business, and employment prospects. It will then discuss the impacts of major policies enacted to date to mitigate economic losses - ranging from state-ordered shutdowns to the stimulus program -- and consider what approaches will…
| Raj Chetty
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 Dream of upward mobility for our children? In this talk, Raj Chetty discusses recent work that he and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have done addressing this question. Among other topics, Professor Chetty covers how and why children's chances of climbing the…
| Raj Chetty | Nathaniel Hendren
June 17, 2020, Paper, "We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, employment rates, and other key indicators disaggregated by county, industry, and income group. Using these data, we study the mechanisms through which COVID-19 affected the economy by analyzing heterogeneity…
| Raj Chetty | Nathaniel Hendren
May 2020, Paper, "We build a new, publicly available economic tracker that measures economic activity at a highfrequency, granular level. Using anonymized data from several large businesses – credit card processors, payroll firms, job posting aggregators, and financial services firms – we construct statistics on consumer spending, employment rates, incomes, business revenues, job postings, and other key indicators. We report these statistics in…
| Raj Chetty
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 ladder? A new online data tool being made public Monday finds a strong correlation between where people are raised and their chances of achieving the American dream."…
| Raj Chetty | Nathaniel Hendren
The Impact of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimate. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, 2016, Paper, "We characterize the effects of neighborhoods on children's earnings and other outcomes in adulthood by studying more than five million families who move across counties in the U.S. We identify the causal effect of growing up in every county in the U.S. by estimating a fixed effects model identified from families who…
| Raj Chetty
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 have a higher standard of living than their parents. We assess whether the U.S. is living up to this ideal by estimating rates of “absolute income mobility” – the fraction of children who earn more than their parents – since 1940."…