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The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, Sonya R. Porter · 2025

Geography Economics Sociology

We construct a public atlas of mean outcomes in adulthood by childhood census tract. Outcomes vary sharply across neighborhoods: For children whose parents earn $27,000, the standard deviation of mean household income in adulthood is $10,4…

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Michael Stepner, Hamidah Alatas, Camille Baker , et al. · 2023

Economics Business Medicine

We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the United States at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, j…

Replication Data for: 'The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data' Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Michael Stepner · 2023

Computer science Biology Medicine

The programs replicate tables and figures from "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data", by Chetty, Friedman, and Stepner. Please see the README_reproduction file for additiona…

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Open

Raj Chetty, David Deming, John N. Friedman · 2023

Business Political science

Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families — increa…

Replication Data for: Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: (I) Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates; (II) Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff · 2022

Psychology Mathematics

This dataset contains replication files for "Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates" and "Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood" by Raj Ch…

Replication Data for: Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan · 2022

Political science Economics Biology

This dataset contains replication files for "Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States" by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan. For more information, see h…

Replication Data for: The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, Sonya R. Porter · 2022

Biology Computer science Geography

This dataset contains replication files for "The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility" by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter. For more information, see https://op…

Replication Data for: A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman · 2022

Computer science Mathematics

This dataset contains replication files for "A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples" by Raj Chetty and John Friedman. For more information, see https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/diff…

Transitioning Out of the Coronavirus Lockdown: A Framework for Evaluating Zone-Based Social Distancing Open

Eric Friedman, John N. Friedman, Simon R. Johnson, Adam S. Landsberg · 2020

Computer science Geography Medicine

In the face of elevated pandemic risk, canonical epidemiological models imply the need for extreme social distancing over a prolonged period. Alternatively, people could be organized into zones, with more interactions inside their zone tha…

Transitioning Out of the Coronavirus Lockdown: A Framework for Evaluating Zone-Based Social Distancing Open

Eric Friedman, John N. Friedman, Simon R. Johnson, Adam S. Landsberg · 2020

Geography Sociology Biology

In the face of elevated pandemic risk, canonical epidemiological models imply the need for extreme social distancing over a prolonged period. Alternatively, people could be organized into zones, with more interactions inside their zone tha…

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data Open

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team · 2020

Business Economics Medicine

We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the U.S. at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies.We report weekly statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, job posting…

Replication Data for: 'Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States' Open