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
Gregory Bruich
Research Principal, Lecturer/Adviser in Economics, Harvard University
Stefanie DeLuca
Research Principal, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Theresa Kuchler
Research Principal, Associate Professor of Finance, New York University
Michael Stepner
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
Johannes Stroebel
Research Principal, Professor of Finance, New York University
Our Team
Asher Baraban
Predoctoral Fellow
Matt Bell
Project Manager
Ishan Bhatt
Predoctoral Fellow
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
Olivia Friederich
Executive Assistant to John Friedman
Benny Goldman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ines Guix
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tom Harris
Predoctoral Fellow
Kamana Jain
Senior Executive Assistant
Shipra Karan
Predoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Kennedy
Finance Associate
Emily Leff
Research and Data Communications Associate
Jacob Li
Predoctoral Fellow
Kadeem Noray
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yechan Park
Predoctoral Fellow
Alistair Pattison
Predoctoral Fellow
Samir Rein
Predoctoral Fellow
Jim Reisinger
Research Scientist
Anna Sander
Predoctoral Fellow
Arjun Shanmugam
Predoctoral Fellow
Javier Soria-Espin
Visiting Fellow
Matthew Staiger
Research Scientist
Ceci Steyn
Data Analyst
Clare Suter
Upward Mobility Fellow
Samantha Webb
Assistant Director of Administration
Graduate Student Affiliates
Fiona Chen
Sahil Chinoy
Federico Gonzalez
Jamie Gracie
Matthew Jacob
Martin Koenen
Omeed Maghzian
Dominic Russell
Tom Rutter
Claire Shi
James Stratton
Nicolaj Thor
Alumni
With Initial Position After Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
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
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
Robert Fluegge
Research Fellow, Stanford University
Katie Genadek
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Claudia Goldin
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Daniel Herbst
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
Matthew Jackson
Professor of Economics. Stanford University
Xavier Jaravel
Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Drew Johnston
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Meta
Maggie R. Jones
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Lawrence Katz
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Raymond Kluender
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Patrick Kline
Associate Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Robert Manduca
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Chika Okafor
Postdoctoral Fellow, NBER
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
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
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