Our Team

We are united in our passion to understand how to improve economic opportunities for all Americans.

Leadership
Raj Chetty
Director, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Bio
John Friedman
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Brown University
Bio
Nathaniel Hendren
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bio
Sarah Oppenheimer
Executive Director
Bio
Research Principals
Stefanie DeLuca
Research Principal, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Theresa Kuchler
Research Principal, Associate Professor of Finance, NYU
Michael Stepner
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
Johannes Stroebel
Research Principal, Professor of Finance, NYU
Our Team
Hamidah Alatas
Research and Special Projects Associate
Asher Baraban
Predoctoral Fellow
Matt Bell
Project Manager
Ishan Bhatt
Predoctoral Fellow
Anysa Calderon
Senior Executive Assistant
Eduardo Chamorro
Operations Management Assistant
Westley Cineus
Assistant Director of Research Administration
Jamie Fogel
Research Scientist
David Forte
Director of Research Translation and Strategic Initiatives
Ines Guix
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ilise Hamilton
Executive Assistant to John Friedman
Tom Harris
Predoctoral Fellow
Shipra Karan
Predoctoral Fellow
Jack Kelly
Predoctoral Fellow
Caitlin Kupsc
Finance Associate
Emma Lee
Predoctoral Fellow
Emily Leff
Research and Data Communications Associate
Sam Nitkin
Predoctoral Fellow
Kadeem Noray
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yechan Park
Predoctoral Fellow
Vinay Ravinder
Predoctoral Fellow
Nico Rotundo
Predoctoral Fellow
Arjun Shanmugam
Predoctoral Fellow
Erica Sprott
Predoctoral Fellow
Benjamin Sprung-Keyser
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matthew Staiger
Research Scientist
Ceci Steyn
Data Analyst
Samantha Webb
Assistant Director of Administration
Austin Zheng
Predoctoral Fellow
Graduate Student Affiliates
Fiona Chen
Sahil Chinoy
Harris Eppsteiner
Robert Fluegge
Benny Goldman
Federico Gonzalez
Jamie Gracie
Matthew Jacob
Drew Johnston
Joachim Kahr Rasmussen
Martin Koenen
Omeed Maghzian
Namrata Narain
Chika Okafor
Tom Rutter
Suproteem Sarkar
Emanuel Schertz
Claire Shi
James Stratton
Nicolaj Thor
Jennifer Walsh
Alice Wu
Ruby Zhang
Advisory Board
Research Collaborators
Trent Alexander
Associate Director of ICSPR, University of Michigan
Isaiah Andrews
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Peter Bergman
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Zachary Bleemer
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
Gregory Bruich
Lecturer/Adviser in Economics, Harvard University
Kyle Coombs
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
David Cutler
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
David Deming
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Rebecca Diamond
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Will Dobbie
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Arindrajit Dube
Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
Katie Genadek
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Claudia Goldin
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Matthew Jackson
Professor of Economics. Stanford University
Calvin Jahnke
Research Associate, Harvard Business School
Xavier Jaravel
Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Maggie R. Jones
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Lawrence Katz
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Ray Kleunder
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Patrick Kline
Associate Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Theresa Kuchler
Associate Professor of Finance, New York University
Robert Manduca
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Suresh Naidu
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University
Christopher J. Palmer
Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Neviana Petkova
Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis
Sonya R. Porter
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Johannes Stroebel
Professor of Finance, New York University
Laura Tach
Professor of Sociology. Cornell University
Nicholas Turner
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
Winnie van Dijk
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
John van Reenen
Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Danny Yagan
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Crystal Yang
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Owen Zidar
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Eric Zwick
Associate Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
Alumni
With Initial Position After Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Supporters
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