Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter
Working paper, March 2018
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Paper: PDF
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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John Van Reenen
NBER Working Paper No. 24062, December 2017
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Paper: PDF
NBER Working Paper [longer version with additional results on inventors' careers]: PDF
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Full Academic Slides: PDF | PPT
Data: Stata / Excel
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan
NBER Working Paper No. 23618, Revised Version, July 2017
Fact sheet: PDF
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Paper: PDF
Slides: PDF | PPT
Data: Stata / Excel
NYT Interactive Tool to Explore Data: Web
The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1107-162, 2018
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Video: YouTube
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The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1163-1228, 2018
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Note: The above two papers are revised versions of an earlier paper, The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County Level Estimates
The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940
Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang
Science 356(6336): 398-406, 2017
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Data: Stata / Excel
Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Frina Lin, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Benjamin Scuderi
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106(5): 282-288, 2016
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The Association between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001 - 2014
Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner, Sarah Abraham, Shelby Lin, Benjamin Scuderi, Nicholas Turner, Augustin Bergeron, and David Cutler
The Journal of the American Medical Association 315(4), 2016
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Paper: HTML
Slides: PDF | PPT
Data: Stata / Excel
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz
American Economic Review 106(4): 855-902, 2016
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Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, and Nick Turner
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 104(5): 141-147, 2014
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Data: Stata / Excel
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez
Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(4): 1553-1623, 2014
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Paper: PDF
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Non-technical video
Data: Stata / Excel
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff
American Economic Review 104(9): 2633-2679, 2014
Paper: PDF
Slides: PDF | PPT
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff
American Economic Review 104(9): 2593-2632, 2014
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Paper: PDF
Slides: PDF | PPT
Video: YouTube
Discussion of ASA Statement: PDF
Note on Prior Score Placebo Tests: PDF
Reply to Rothstein (2017): PDF
Rothstein's Comment (2014): PDF
Response to Adler (2014): PDF
Replication Code: ZIP
Note: The above two papers are revised versions of an earlier paper, The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan
Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4): 1593-1660, 2011
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Paper: PDF
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