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    Downloadable Data Repository
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    Understanding Higher Education: CLIMB Initiative
    Partnership with colleges and universities to explore and amplify higher education as a critical engine of mobility.
    Supporting Local Communities: Charlotte Opportunity Initiative
    Collaboration with local community leaders to support data-driven systems change and identify policy areas with the potential to increase upward mobility in Charlotte.
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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 [email protected].

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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, Guido Imbens, Hyunseung Kang
NBER Working Paper No. 26463 | November 2019
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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
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