Indian-American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Director of Opportunity Insights, a research and policy institute. Recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2013 and a MacArthur Fellow. His research uses big data to study economic opportunity, intergenerational mobility, education, and inequality.
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Raj Chetty
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SensibleScience-based
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Public positions Raj Chetty has taken on contested policy questions. Each links to the full issue page where this voice sits among others.
- Child tax credit"Has produced research on how cash transfers and tax credits affect child outcomes"
- Higher education funding"Research shows public colleges drive substantial upward mobility and merit increased investment"
- Zoning reform and land use"Research on neighborhood effects suggests housing access shapes economic mobility"
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editorial · last refreshed 5/26/2026.Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.