Raj Chetty2019 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow

    Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard
    University and Director of Opportunity Insights. Chetty’s research combines
    empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government
    policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment insurance, and education has been
    widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony. His current research
    focuses on equality of opportunity: How can we give children from disadvantaged
    backgrounds better chances of succeeding?

    Chetty is a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the 2013 John Bates
    Clark medal, given by the American Economic Association to the best American
    economist under age 40.

    He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2003 at the age of 23 and was a
    professor at University of California at Berkeley until 2009, when he returned to
    Harvard as one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. Chetty was
    a faculty member at Stanford from 2015 to 2018. In summer 2018, he returned to
    Harvard, where he rejoined the Economic Department and launched Opportunity
    Insights.