Raj Chetty
| Raj Chetty | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 4, 1979 New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | United States (naturalized) |
| Institution |
Stanford University Harvard University University of California, Berkeley |
| Field | Public economics |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D., 2003; A.B., 2000) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Martin Feldstein |
| Awards |
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) John Bates Clark Medal (2013) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty (born August 4, 1979) is an Indian American economist. He is a professor of economics at Stanford University, specializing in the field of public economics. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Chetty previously taught at Harvard University, where he was offered tenure at the age of 28 and accepted at 29, becoming one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
Chetty was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until the age of nine. His family immigrated to the United States in 1988. After graduating from the University School of Milwaukee, Chetty received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2003, with a thesis entitled Consumption commitments, risk preferences, and optimal unemployment insurance. As a sophomore in college, Chetty was told by his mentor Martin Feldstein to pursue his own ideas after proposing a counterintuitive idea that higher interest rates sometimes lead to higher investment. In 2003, at the age of 23, Chetty became an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming a tenured associate professor there at 27. In 2009, Chetty returned to Harvard, where he was the Bloomberg Professor of Economics and the director of the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy. In 2015, Chetty moved to Stanford, where he became a professor in the Economics Department.
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