All Papers

This page lists all papers released by the Opportunity Insights team. These studies were supported by the Opportunity Insights staff and sponsors listed on our Team page. For questions related to any of these studies or the data associated with them, please email .

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National Trends
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
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National Trends
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, Will Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, Crystal S. Yang
NBER Working Paper No. 32697 | July 2024
Education
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, John Friedman
NBER Working Paper NO. 31492 | July 2023
Neighborhoods
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Peter Bergman, Stefanie DeLuca, Lawrence Katz, Christopher Palmer
American Economic Review | June 2023
Measurement
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team
Quarterly Journal of Economics | April 2023
Neighborhoods
Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness
Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barbera, Monica Bhole, Nils Wernerfelt
Nature, Volume 608, Issue 7921, Pages 122-134 | August 2022
Neighborhoods
Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barbera, Monica Bhole, Nils Wernerfelt
Nature, Volume 608, Issue 7921, Pages 108-121 | August 2022
Education
Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates Who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard
Raj Chetty, Amanda Bayer, Gregory Bruich, Andrew Housiaux
Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Education | April 2020
Education
Mobility Report Cards: Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 1567–1633, | February 2020
Methods
The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
Raj Chetty, Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Hyunseung Kang
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies | November 2019
Methods
A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples
Raj Chetty, John Friedman
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS, 109 : 414-20 | May 2019
Innovation
Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors
Raj Chetty, Alex Bell, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John van Reenen
Forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019 | January 2019
Neighborhoods
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, John Friedman, Maggie R. Jones, Sonya R. Porter
NBER Working Paper NO. 25147 | October 2018
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