Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty | |
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| Born | Nadarajan Chetty August 4, 1979 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Feldstein, Lawrence F. Katz |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Public economics |
| Institutions | Stanford University Harvard University University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2012) John Bates Clark Medal (2013) Infosys Prize (2020) |
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Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty (born August 4, 1979) is an Indian-American economist who is 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. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2020, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics, the highest monetary award recognizing achievements in science and research, in India.