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Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.
Posts
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
The work that has brought Chetty such fame is an echo of his family’s history. He has pioneered an approach that uses newly available …
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods
Does the neighborhood you grow up in determine how far you move up the economic ladder?
A new online data tool being made public Monday …
The American Dream, Quantified at Last
The phrase “American dream” was invented during the Great Depression. It comes from a popular 1931 book by the historian James Truslow …
Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor
On Friday, a team of researchers led by Stanford economist Raj Chetty released a paper on how growing up in poverty affects boys and …
Publications
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
We construct a publicly available atlas of children’s outcomes in adulthood by Census tract using anonymized longitudinal data covering …
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
We study the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in income using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. …
Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood
We show that differences in childhood environments play an important role in shaping gender gaps in adulthood by documenting three …
