Harvard Economics professor Raj Chetty ’00 discussed the role that privilege and wealth play in elite college admissions at a Harvard Graduate School of Education event Tuesday afternoon. Admissions ...

Harvard economist Raj Chetty shares data during his keynote address at UNC Charlotte. Many people who went to college recall building life-long friendships and personal networks that later contributed ...

Nearly a decade ago, in 2014, Charlotte leaders got a sobering wake-up call. A team from Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley released the “Land of Opportunity Study,” known ...

Harvard’s Raj Chetty has a habit of mistaking causation. Not too long ago he astounded the easily-astounded David Brooks with research that “found that poor children who grew up in places where people ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty about new research showing increased economic mobility among Black adults who grew up poor. Is the American dream - the ability ...

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Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with the director of Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University institute that studies barriers to economic mobility in the United States, Raj Chetty about ...

NOTE: This program originally aired Sept. 4, 2024. This past summer, the Queen City received some good news: the city is no longer in last place when it comes to upward mobility. Charlotte moved up a ...

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World-renowned economist Nadarajan “Raj” Chetty, whose research focuses on designing effective government policies which address social and economic disparities, will deliver the keynote address for ...