Raj Chetty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Raj Chetty
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Aug 4, 1979(1979-08-04)
Age	45
Birthplace	New Delhi
Country	India
Birth City	Delhi
Horoscope	Leo

Raj Chetty Biography

Raj Chetty is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on August 4, 1979 in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Nadarajan Raj “Raj” Chetty, born August 4, 1979, is an American economist. He is also the William A. Ackman professor of public economics at Harvard University. Recent papers by Chetty have focused on equality of opportunity in America and the long-term effects of teachers on student performance. At 28 years old, Chetty was granted tenure and became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard’s history. He was a recipient the John Bates Clark Medal, and a MacArthur Fellow in 2012. He is currently an advisor editor for the Journal of Public Economics.

He was one of 23 Fellows who received $500,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation over five years as a recipient for one of their Genius Grants.

Chetty was awarded the Padma Shri, an award for distinguished service in any field, by the Government of India in 2015.

George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen described Chetty in 2017 as “the single most influential economist in the world today.”

The Economist and The New York Times ranked Chetty among the top eight young economists worldwide in 2008. Chetty is one of the most quoted young economists worldwide. He was awarded the Young Labor Economist Award by the Institute for the Study of Labor in 2010 for his paper “Moral Hazard Versus Liquidity, Optimal Unemployment Insurance” in the Journal of Political Economy.

Raj Chetty Net Worth

Raj Chetty is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Raj Chetty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chetty was born in New Delhi (India) and lived there until he was nine years old. His family immigrated to America in 1988. Chetty graduated in 1997 from University School of Milwaukee and received his AB in 2000 from Harvard University. Chetty continued at Harvard to complete his PhD in 2003. His thesis was titled Consumption obligations, risk preferences and optimal unemployment insurance. Martin Feldstein, his mentor, told Chetty as a sophomore that he should pursue his own ideas. He had counterintuitively suggested that higher interest rates might lead to greater investment.

At the age of 23 Chetty was an assistant professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He became a tenured associate Professor at 27. Chetty returned to Harvard in 2009 as the Bloomberg Professor of Economics and director of the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy. Chetty was appointed a professor at Stanford’s Economics Department in 2015. John Friedman, Raj Chetty’s frequent coauthor, announced in June 2018 that Chetty would be returning to Harvard.

Chetty was the recipient of the 2013 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded by the American Economic Association to “that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.”

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Facts & Trivia

Raj Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Raj Chetty celebrates birthday on August 4 of every year.

Top Facts about Raj Chetty

1. Raj Chetty was born in New Delhi, India in 1979
2. He immigrated to the US in 1988
3. He was offered tenure at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard’s economics department
4. He is a John Bates Clark Medal recipient and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow
5. He has testified in the landmark case Vergara v. California
6. He found that test-score based value-added measures are not substantially biased by unobserved student characteristics
7. He researches economic mobility and the optimal level of unemployment benefits
8. He received a Young Labor Economist Award in 2010
9. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2012
10. He received the 2013 John Bates Clark Medal
11. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2015
12. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018
13. He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019
14. He received the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2020
15. He has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Our World in Data, and Vox

What is Raj Chetty known for?

Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Director of Opportunity Insights. Chetty’s research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies.

What is the Chetty study?

Chetty, a Harvard economics professor, has focused on how where one grows up shapes one’s economic prospects. Chetty’s research demonstrates just how unevenly “upward mobility”—basically, people’s ability to earn more money than their parents did—is dispersed throughout the country.

Who is Opportunity Insights?

Opportunity Insights is a nonpartisan research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity. represents a partnership between leading economists from Harvard University and Brown University.

Who is the youngest economist?

American Melissa Dell and Russian Oleg Itskhoki, both 31, are the youngest ones in the list. And here is the list of economists. 1. Nicholas Bloom, 41, British, Stanford University, uses quantitative research to measure and explain management practices across firms and countries.