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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Raj Chetty: The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children's Long-Term Outcomes
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SUMMARY:Raj Chetty: The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children's Long-Term Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Raj Chetty,</strong> <em>Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Harvard University.</em></p><p><em><!--break--></em></p><p><strong><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="bfb4dac0-ed73-4843-8664-6c5c12e0661a" data-align="right" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media></strong>This talk will present findings from two new papers that investigate the long-term effects of neighborhoods on children's earnings and other outcomes in adulthood using both quasi-experimental evidence and new evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment.</p><p></p><div class="page"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p></p><p><strong>(New!) May 2015: </strong>The two papers presented in this seminar have now been released for distribution:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/images/nbhds_paper.pdf" target="_blank">The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County Level Estimates</a> <br>Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren </li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/images/mto_paper.pdf" target="_blank">The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment</a><br>Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren and Lawrence Katz</li></ul><p>For an excellent discussion of this research, see "<a href="http://nyti.ms/1I7lFg0">Why the New Research on Mobility Matters</a>," By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01) in <em>The New York Times</em> (May 4, 2015).</p><p></p></div></div></div>
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
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