Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: Lessons from Big Data | Raj Chetty | TEDxHarkerSchool

How can we improve economic opportunities for children growing up in low-income families? Raj Chetty will discuss findings from the Equality of Opportunity Project, which uses big data to develop new answers to this important policy question. The presentation will show how children’s opportunities to climb the income ladder vary substantially depending upon where they grow up in the United States, with a specific focus on our community. It will then identify factors that contribute to this geographic variation in opportunities for upward mobility. The talk will conclude by offering specific policy lessons for how the promise of the American Dream can be restored for America’s next generation.

Raj Chetty is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Chetty’s research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment insurance, and education has been widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony. His current research focuses on equality of opportunity: how can we give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding?

Chetty is a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given by the American Economic Association to the best American economist under age 40. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 at the age of 23 and was a professor at UC-Berkeley until 2009, when he returned to Harvard as one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. Chetty moved to the Department of Economics at Stanford in 2015.

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