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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 .

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers
Neighborhoods
Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness
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Author
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
National Trends
The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets
Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser, Sonya R. Porter
CES Working Paper #22-27 | July 2022
Measurement
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, John Friedman, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team
NBER WORKING PAPER NO. 27431 | November 2020
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
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
NBER Working Paper No. 26463 | November 2019
Neighborhoods
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Peter Bergman, Stefanie DeLuca, Lawrence Katz, Christopher Palmer
NBER Working Paper NO. 26164 | August 2019
Measurement
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 1209–1318 | July 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
Racial Disparities
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, Sonya R. Porter
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 711–783 | March 2018
Innovation
Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Raj Chetty, Alex Bell, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John van Reenen
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 2, May 2019, Pages 647–713 | December 2017
Education
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan
NBER Working Paper No. 23618, Revised Version | December 2017
Neighborhoods
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1163-1228, 2018 | December 2017
Neighborhoods
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3): 1107-162, 2018 | December 2017
National Trends
The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang
Science 356(6336): 398-406, 2017 | December 2016
Neighborhoods
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
Raj Chetty, Augustin Bergeron, David Cutler, Benjamin Scuderi, Michael Stepner, Nicholas Turner
The Journal of the American Medical Association 315(4), 2016 | April 2016
Neighborhoods
Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Frina Lin, Jeremy Majerovitz, Benjamin Scuderi
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106(5): 282-288, 2016 | January 2016
Neighborhoods
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence Katz
American Economic Review 106(4): 855-902, 2016 | May 2015
Education
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff
American Economic Review 104(9): 2593-2632, 2014 | September 2014
Education
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff
American Economic Review 104(9): 2633-2679, 2014 | September 2014
Neighborhoods
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez
Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(4): 1553-1623, 2014 | June 2014
National Trends
Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 104(5): 141-147, 2014 | January 2014
Education
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Danny Yagan
Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4): 1593-1660, 2011 | December 2011
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