Benny Goldman

Opportunity Insights supports policymakers, practitioners, and communities to use our research and data to develop evidence-based solutions for improved economic mobility.

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Community Impacts: Using Data to Improve Opportunity

See how local leaders are using the evidence to develop solutions that boost economic mobility.

Expanding Geographic Choice: Creating Moves to Opportunity

Pilot effort to identify rigorous and scalable strategies to increase access to high opportunity neighborhoods.

Understanding Higher Education: CLIMB Initiative

A partnership to explore and amplify higher education as an engine of mobility.

Supporting Local Data Tools: Empowering Evidence-Driven Strategy

An initiative to support local data catalysts and new ways of integrating mobility data into local decision-making.

A central part of Opportunity Insights’ mission is to train the next generation of researchers and policy leaders on methods to study and improve economic opportunity and related social problems.

Big Data Course (Harvard)

Open-source materials from Harvard campus course

Exploring the Opportunity Atlas

A series of instructional videos designed to explain the uses of the Atlas, its underlying data, and how it can help inform solutions to improve economic mobility.

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Virtual summer course offered via PREDOC.org

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Benny Goldman

Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Cornell University

Benny Goldman is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Cornell University and a Research Principal at Opportunity Insights. My research is in labor and public economics, with a focus on economic disparities by class and race in the United States. Much of my work examines the role of family formation in shaping these disparities. I am also a research affiliate at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, EdRedesign, and the Cornell Population Center. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2024.

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