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D-Index
64
Citations
53970
World Ranking
612
National Ranking
390

Raj Chetty publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raj Chetty sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Raj Chetty D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raj Chetty sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Raj Chetty is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. The scholar's research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, education, and management science and operations research.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, social capital and networks, school choice and performance, advanced causal inference techniques, health disparities and outcomes, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and employment and welfare studies.

Raj Chetty has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility (2022, Nature)
  • The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data (2023, The Quarterly Journal of Economics)
  • Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness (2022, Nature)
  • Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice (2024, American Economic Review)
  • IMPROVING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM BIG DATA (2020, Contemporary Economic Policy)

The scholar has frequently published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Harvard Dataverse, Nature, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Economic Review.

Raj Chetty collaborates regularly with a core group of coauthors, including Nathaniel Hendren, Nicolaj Thor, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, and Johannes Stroebel. These collaborations have supported studies across various social science disciplines and fields.

Among the awards received, Raj Chetty was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States*

    Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Patrick Kline;Emmanuel Saez

  • The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

    Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Lawrence F. Katz

  • The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

    Raj Chetty;Michael Stepner;Sarah Abraham;Shelby Lin

  • Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

    Raj Chetty;Adam Looney;Kory Kroft

  • Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

    Raj Chetty;W. Looney;Kory Kroft

  • Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

    Raj Chetty;John N Friedman;Jonah E Rockoff

  • How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star

    Raj Chetty;John Norton Friedman;John Norton Friedman;Nathanial Hilger;Nathanial Hilger;Emmanuel Saez;Emmanuel Saez

  • Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records

    Raj Chetty;John Norton Friedman;Tore Olsen;Luigi Pistaferri

  • Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

    Raj Chetty;John N Friedman;Jonah E Rockoff

  • The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

    Raj Chetty;John N. Friedman;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

    Raj Chetty;David Grusky;Maximilian Hell;Nathaniel Hendren

  • Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

    Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Patrick Kline;Emmanuel Saez

  • Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective

    Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren;Maggie R Jones;Sonya R Porter

  • Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

    Raj Chetty

  • The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects

    Raj Chetty;Nathaniel Hendren

  • A New Method of Estimating Risk Aversion

    Raj Chetty

  • Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins

    Raj Chetty;Adam Guren;Dayanand Manoli;Andrea Weber

  • Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

    Raj Chetty;Raj Chetty

  • Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

    Raj Chetty;John N. Friedman;Emmanuel Saez;Nicholas Turner

  • Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

    Raj Chetty;John N. Friedman;Søren Leth-Petersen;Torben Heien Nielsen

  • Bounds on Elasticities With Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply

    Raj Chetty

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
Jonah E. Rockoff
Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University
David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
Guido W. Imbens
Guido W. Imbens Stanford University
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Susan Athey
Susan Athey Stanford University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University

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