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Raj Chetty

Papers by Raj Chetty tracked in the Macro Paper Warehouse.

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Published Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 8 Jan 2026 Published Apr 2026
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

Raj Chetty · Will Dobbie · Benjamin Goldman · Sonya R Porter · Crystal S Yang

This paper documents sharp divergent trends in intergenerational economic mobility by race and class in the United States across the 1978 to 1992 birth cohorts, and investigates the causal mechanisms …

Published Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 30 Oct 2025 Published Jan 2026
Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges

Raj Chetty · David J Deming · John N Friedman

This paper studies why children from high-income families are more likely to attend Ivy-Plus colleges (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago — 12 colleges total) and whether attending these …

Published Review of Economic Studies Online 30 Sep 2025 Published Jul 2026
The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely

Susan Athey · Raj Chetty · Guido W Imbens · Hyunseung Kang

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in program evaluation: primary outcomes of interest — such as lifetime earnings or long-term employment — are often observed only with lengthy delays, …