Nathaniel Hendren

15.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
32 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Nathaniel Hendren is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel Hendren has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel Hendren's work include Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (10 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 papers). Nathaniel Hendren is often cited by papers focused on Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (10 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 papers). Nathaniel Hendren collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Nathaniel Hendren's co-authors include Raj Chetty, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, Lawrence F. Katz, Raj Chetty, Sonya R. Porter, Maggie R. Jones, Nicholas Turner, Michael Stepner and John N. Friedman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel Hendren

29 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2014 1.5k citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

2016 1.3k citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren et al. American Economic Review profile →
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects*

2018 587 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

2017 448 citations Raj Chetty, David B. Grusky et al. Science profile →
Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

2014 446 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren et al. American Economic Review profile →
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective*

2019 398 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates*

2018 364 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data

2020 312 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nathaniel Hendren	3.8k	2.1k	1.2k	925	789	32	6.1k
Jeffrey R. Kling	4.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	2.3k 2.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	50	7.7k
William Darity	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	723 0.8×	424 0.5×	242	6.0k
Gary Solon	3.2k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	708 0.8×	493 0.6×	59	5.7k
Deborah A. Cobb‐Clark	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	519 0.6×	414 0.5×	219	5.3k
Patrick Kline	2.4k 0.6×	3.6k 1.7×	720 0.6×	520 0.6×	301 0.4×	47	6.0k
Andrew Leigh	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	604 0.5×	574 0.6×	347 0.4×	206	4.5k
Roberto M. Fernández	4.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	784 0.8×	560 0.7×	11	5.9k
Stephen P. Jenkins	4.6k 1.2×	3.4k 1.7×	1.7k 1.4×	468 0.5×	668 0.8×	221	8.7k
Kjell G. Salvanes	3.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	570 0.7×	203	7.8k
Jeffrey B. Liebman	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	690 0.7×	505 0.6×	54	5.9k

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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, & Sonya R. Porter. (2025). The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility. American Economic Review. 116(1). 1–51.

Herbst, Daniel & Nathaniel Hendren. (2024). Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital. American Economic Review. 114(7). 2024–2072.

Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, et al.. (2024). Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice. American Economic Review. 114(5). 1281–1337. 28 indexed citations

Hahn, Robert W., et al.. (2024). A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Hendren, Nathaniel, et al.. (2024). A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 140(1). 63–112. 2 indexed citations

Hendren, Nathaniel, et al.. (2023). A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Hendren, Nathaniel, et al.. (2022). The Case for Using the Mvpf in Empirical Welfare Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Hendren, Nathaniel, Camille Landais, & Johannes Spinnewijn. (2021). Choice in Insurance Markets: A Pigouvian Approach to Social Insurance Design. Annual Review of Economics. 13(1). 457–486. 4 indexed citations

Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, & Michael Stepner. (2020). The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data. National Bureau of Economic Research. 19 indexed citations

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Hendren, Nathaniel. (2020). Measuring economic efficiency using inverse-optimum weights. Journal of Public Economics. 187. 104198–104198. 46 indexed citations

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Finkelstein, Amy, Nathaniel Hendren, & Mark Shepard. (2019). Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts. American Economic Review. 109(4). 1530–1567. 87 indexed citations

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Finkelstein, Amy, Nathaniel Hendren, & Erzo F.P. Luttmer. (2018). The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. Journal of Political Economy. 127(6). 2836–2874. 68 indexed citations

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Chetty, Raj & Nathaniel Hendren. (2018). The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 133(3). 1163–1228. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2017). The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science. 356(6336). 398–406. 448 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2016). Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood. American Economic Review. 106(5). 282–288. 67 indexed citations

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Hendren, Nathaniel. (2014). Efficient Welfare Weights. National Bureau of Economic Research. 6 indexed citations

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Hendren, Nathaniel. (2014). The Inequality Deflator: Interpersonal Comparisons without a Social Welfare Function. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 19 indexed citations

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Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, & Emmanuel Saez. (2014). Where Is the Land of Opportunity?: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 19 indexed citations

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Hendren, Nathaniel. (2014). Unravelling vs Unravelling: A Memo on Competitive Equilibriums and Trade in Insurance Markets. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. 39(2). 176–183. 12 indexed citations

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Gruber, Jonathan, Nathaniel Hendren, & Robert M. Townsend. (2013). The Great Equalizer: Health Care Access and Infant Mortality in Thailand. American Economic Journal Applied Economics. 6(1). 91–107. 89 indexed citations

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