Raj Chetty

30.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
68 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Raj Chetty is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Raj Chetty has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 19 papers in Accounting and 19 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Raj Chetty's work include Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (14 papers), School Choice and Performance (13 papers) and Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (12 papers). Raj Chetty is often cited by papers focused on Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (14 papers), School Choice and Performance (13 papers) and Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (12 papers). Raj Chetty collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Raj Chetty's co-authors include Nathaniel Hendren, Emmanuel Saez, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff, Patrick Kline, Lawrence F. Katz, Nicholas Turner, Benjamin Scuderi, Ádám Szeidl and Michael Stepner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Raj Chetty

66 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
    2016 1.6k citations Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner et al. profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. 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 →
  4. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
    2014 925 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. American Economic Review profile →
  5. How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
    2011 805 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  6. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
    2014 705 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. American Economic Review profile →
  7. The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects*
    2018 587 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  8. Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records
    2011 469 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  9. The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
    2017 448 citations Raj Chetty, David B. Grusky et al. Science profile →
  10. 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 →
  11. 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 →
  12. The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates*
    2018 364 citations Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  13. Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark *
    2014 343 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  14. Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States*
    2020 159 citations Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Raj Chetty 4.9k 4.6k 3.0k 2.4k 2.3k 68 13.3k
Jörn‐Steffen Pischke 7.3k 1.5× 3.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.0× 48 15.3k
John Bound 6.5k 1.3× 3.5k 0.7× 972 0.3× 3.7k 1.5× 1.0k 0.4× 119 14.2k
Petra Todd 5.8k 1.2× 2.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.7× 86 12.7k
Lawrence F. Katz 14.4k 2.9× 9.6k 2.1× 2.5k 0.8× 5.3k 2.2× 1.8k 0.8× 154 25.0k
Richard Layard 6.6k 1.3× 3.0k 0.6× 677 0.2× 2.7k 1.1× 857 0.4× 172 14.3k
Thomas Lemieux 7.3k 1.5× 3.4k 0.7× 977 0.3× 2.8k 1.1× 1.0k 0.4× 74 11.5k
Stephen Machin 5.9k 1.2× 3.5k 0.8× 2.1k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 998 0.4× 300 11.2k
Anne Case 4.1k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 855 0.3× 3.5k 1.4× 715 0.3× 79 12.4k
Jeffrey R. Kling 2.2k 0.5× 4.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.4× 2.3k 1.0× 636 0.3× 50 7.7k
Timothy M. Smeeding 2.9k 0.6× 4.3k 0.9× 566 0.2× 2.0k 0.8× 848 0.4× 191 8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raj Chetty

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Raj Chetty. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Raj Chetty based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Raj Chetty. Raj Chetty is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chetty, Raj, David Deming, & John N. Friedman. (2025). Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 141(1). 51–145. 2 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, David Deming, & John N. Friedman. (2023). Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, David Deming, & John N. Friedman. (2023). Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Bayer, Amanda, et al.. (2020). Expanding and diversifying the pool of undergraduates who study economics: Insights from a new introductory course at Harvard. The Journal of Economic Education. 51(3-4). 364–379. 18 indexed citations
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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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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, John N. Friedman, & Jonah Rockoff. (2017). Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply to Rothstein. American Economic Review. 1 indexed citations
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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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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, & Jonah E. Rockoff. (2015). Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Response to Rothstein (2014). RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj. (2013). "La Calle Es Libre": Race, Recognition, and Dominican Street Theater. 32(2). 41. 2 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, & Jonah E. Rockoff. (2012). Great Teaching: Measuring Its Effects on Students' Future Earnings. Education next. 12(3). 58. 3 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Søren Leth‐Petersen, Torben Heien Nielsen, & Tore Vincents Olsen. (2012). Active Vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 29 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, & Jonah E. Rockoff. (2011). The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood. NBER Working Paper No. 17699.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 109 indexed citations
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Kolesár, Michal, Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, et al.. (2011). Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 6 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Norbert Hilger, et al.. (2011). How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126(4). 1593–1660. 805 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Thomas Olsen, & Luigi Pistaferri. (2011). Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126(2). 749–804. 469 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chetty, Raj, et al.. (2010). How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR. NBER Working Paper No. 16381.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 40 indexed citations
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Chetty, Raj & Emmanuel Saez. (2010). Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm. American Economic Journal Economic Policy. 2(3). 1–31. 112 indexed citations
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Szeidl, Ádám & Raj Chetty. (2005). Consumption Commitments: Neoclassical Foundations for Habit Formation. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 35 indexed citations
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O’Leary, John, et al.. (1996). REVIEW ARTICLE.IN SITU PCR: PATHOLOGIST'S DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?. The Journal of Pathology. 178(1). 11–20. 39 indexed citations

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