# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raj-chetty
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:09:19.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raj-chetty"
name: "Raj Chetty"
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description: "Nadarajan \"Raj\" Chetty is an American economist who is the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Chetty received tenure at Harvard's economics department at the age of 29, making him one of the youngest in the university's history. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2020, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics."
tagline: "American economist"
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birthDate: "1979-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump