# 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.
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 chaoti...
Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?
Today's guest, Nobel Prize winner James Heckman, is one of the world's most influential—and misunderstood—economists. His research showing that intensive, early interventions can help low-income children close achievement gaps has been, he says, willfully misinterpreted as support for expensive a...
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went further than just improving public housing buildings. HOPE VI was designed to transform neighborhoods with concentrated poverty into neig...
Conversation with Raj Chetty — Driving Upward Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the Director of Opportunity Insights, joins Scott to discuss research around higher education, specifically how elite universities shape who succeeds in the US. We also hear about broader trends regarding upward ec...
Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born? Why Most People Think They're Not Cut Out for Business | Bo Kemp
Stop saying you’re “not the entrepreneur type.” The research might prove you wrong.
Do entrepreneurs have something you’re born with, or is entrepreneurship a skill you can learn?
If you’ve never started a business, don’t have entrepreneurs in your family, or have spent years building someone els...
Economic Mobility Across Rural America
Raj Chetty discusses his research on economic mobility and variations in how readily people can climb the income ladder, especially in rural communities. Chetty, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of Opportunity Insights, gave the keynote address at the Investing in Rural A...
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 kindergarte...
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 advertisin...
Jeetu Patel: The Intern Who Borrowed $250,000
Cisco just closed its fiscal year with $63.3 billion in revenue, up 12%, according to its own results. The man running its products started with a very different kind of number: as an intern, he borrowed a quarter million dollars to buy into the company he worked for.
Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Presi...
