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 more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
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… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
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. But I think where the story becomes more optimistic one is that there are pockets of America, where children from low-income families have significant chances of rising up in the income distribution. This finding of… — Raj Chetty Copy Share
The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
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-income… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
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… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy,… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
