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Raj Chetty
American economist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty (born August 4, 1979) is an Indian-American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University.[2] Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States[3] and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance.[4] Offered tenure at the age of 28, Chetty became one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.[5] Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics.[6] In 2020, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics, the highest monetary award recognizing achievements in science and research, in India.[7]
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Born | Nadarajan Chetty (1979-08-04) August 4, 1979 (age 45) |
Academic career | |
Field | Public economics |
Institution | Stanford University Harvard University University of California, Berkeley |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Martin Feldstein, Lawrence F. Katz[1] |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2012) John Bates Clark Medal (2013) Infosys Prize (2020) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |