Raj Chetty

2019 Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences

Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, specializes in public economics. Some of Chetty's recent papers focus on equality of opportunity in the United States, and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Chetty was offered tenure at Harvard University at the age of 28 and accepted at 29, becoming 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. Chetty will deliver the ICPSR 2019 Biennial Meeting Keynote, speaking about "Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data."