Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-inc…

- Raj Chetty

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribu…

- Raj Chetty

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

- Raj Chetty

Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn mo…

- Raj Chetty

The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low in…

- Raj Chetty

I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a coin flip at this point. Are yo…

- Raj Chetty

The latest research on social mobility showed that there's a large aggregate decline in the U.S. in your chances of earning more than your parents. B…

- Raj Chetty

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

- Raj Chetty

There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move to the suburbs or to a neighborhood that…

- Raj Chetty