Sentences with phrase «economics professor raj»

On Jan. 11, Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty and his colleagues from the Equality of Opportunity Project spoke at a conference held by the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution about new findings on who becomes inventors in the U.S.

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Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard, in 2010 published a study that estimates that having an above - average kindergarten teacher in a classroom of 20 will generate about $ 320,000 more in total lifetime earnings for each of his or her students, compared to the same class with a below - average teacher.

When Hillary Clinton wanted to talk to an esteemed researcher on social mobility, she called Raj Chetty, a Stanford economics professor, a recipient of a MacArthur «Genius» Fellowship, and a winner of the John Bates Clark medal, given to the best American economist under age 40.

Interesting to point out is the primary research being used to support this new teacher evaluation system going through: The research of Harvard's Raj Chetty — the Bloomberg Professor of Economics [emphasis added, given former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «crusade» to, via VAMs, «turn the teaching profession into corporate - world shape»].