Raj Chetty Quotes

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

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 distribution.

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

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 and high-income families live.