# Raj Chetty
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Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty (born August 4, 1979) is an American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Offered tenure at the age of 28, Chetty became one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department.
The New American Dream: Is Upward Mobility Still Possible?
Economist Raj Chetty is the director of Opportunity Insights, which studies how to give children from all backgrounds better chances of succeeding. Michael Jonas, the executive editor of CommonWealth Beacon, talks to Chetty about why fewer Americans out-earn their parents than in previous generatio…
127. The Other Housing Crisis
Intro/Outro: “Fixing a Hole,” by The Beatles
Discussed:
The Other Housing Crisis: Ending the Deterioration and Loss of Affordable Homes. Todd Swanstrom, A.T. Harrison & Alan Mallach, eds., Princeton University Press, 2026
The American Housing Survey
Housing filtering theory
Place Matters: Metropoli…
Zipcode Destiny
There's a core belief embedded in the story of the United States — the American Dream. Today we look at the state of that dream as we revisit our 2018 conversation with economist Raj Chetty. We'll ask some questions that carry big implications: can you put an economic value on a great kindergarten …
Zipcode Destiny
There's a core belief embedded in the story of the United States: the American Dream. This week we discuss the state of that dream with economist Raj Chetty. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The Harvard Genius Mapping the Death of the American Dream — Zip Code by Zip Code
What if the single strongest predictor of whether a poor kid rises into the middle class has nothing to do with intelligence, work ethic, or even education, and everything to do with who happens to be in their classroom in third grade?
Raj Chetty grew up in New Delhi, came to the US in fourth grade…
When ‘Culture Fit’ Becomes a Recipe for Bias
It’s essentially a law of human behavior: We feel most comfortable with people who are similar to us. But that similarity attraction bias can lead to all kinds of dilemmas in the workplace, especially when it comes to hiring.
Award-winning sociologist Lauren Rivera is the Peter G. Peterson Chair i…
David Deming on Social Skills, AI and the Future of Harvard
This week, we’re joined by David Deming, top labor economist, blogger at the Forked Lightning Substack, and — since 2025 — Undergraduate Dean of Harvard College, to ask how the value of social skills will change in the age of thinking and talking machines. We start with his QJE paper “The Growing I…
Meritocracy is a Trap
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In this episode, Chisom turns to the word meritocracy, and to the man who coined it in 1958 specifically to warn against it. Michael Young’s satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy, predicted exactly the trap the word now se…
What Exactly Is College For? (Update)
We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series originally published in 2022, we ask what our chaotic …
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