Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty
Born
Nadarajan Chetty

(1979-08-04) August 4, 1979
Academic background
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
Martin Feldstein, Lawrence F. Katz
Academic work
DisciplinePublic economics
InstitutionsStanford University
Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2012)
John Bates Clark Medal (2013)
Infosys Prize (2020)
Website

Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty (born August 4, 1979) is an American economist who is the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. 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 received tenure at Harvard's economics department at the age of 29, making him one of the youngest in the university's history. 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. In 2020, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics.