# Professors David Cutler and Raj Chetty Publish The Health Inequality Project/JAMA Study on Income and Life Expectancy April 11, 2016 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) A team of researchers led by Prof. Raj Chetty of Stanford University and David Cutler of Harvard University has recently published [The Health Inequality Project](https://healthinequality.org/) and an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “**The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014.”** The [study](https://healthinequality.org/) examines the relationships between income and longevity as well as how location – where people live – can also determine life expectancy. The following reports detail these new and exciting findings. **[The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561) *Journal of the American Medical Association*,** April 10, 2016 **[Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473749157/its-not-just-what-you-make-its-where-you-live-says-study-on-life-expectancy)** April 11, 2016 12:15 AM ET Heard on **WBUR**, *[Morning Edition](http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/2016/04/11/473771543)* **[Income inequality is chipping away at Americans’ life expectancy](http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy-inequality-jama)** ***VOX.COM*** Updated by [Julia Belluz](http://www.vox.com/authors/julia-belluz) on April 11, 2016, 11:15 a.m. ET [@juliaoftoronto](http://twitter.com/juliaoftoronto) **[The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters.](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/11/upshot/for-the-poor-geography-is-life-and-death.html)** ***The New York Times* by [Neil Irwin](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/i/neil_irwin/index.html) and Quoctrung Bui** April 11, 2016 **[Raj Chetty](http://www.rajchetty.com/)** is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Chetty's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment insurance, and education has been widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony. His [current research](http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/) focuses on equality of opportunity: how can we give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding? Chetty is a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given by the American Economic Association to the best American economist under age 40. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 at the age of 23 and was a professor at UC-Berkeley until 2009, when he returned to Harvard as one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard's history. Chetty moved to the Department of Economics at Stanford in 2015. **[David Cutler](http://scholar.harvard.edu/cutler/home)** is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and was named Harvard College Professor in 2014. Professor Cutler holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health. Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama as well as being Senior Health Care Advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. He advises many companies and groups on health care. Professor Cutler was a key advisor in the formulation of the recent cost control legislation in Massachusetts, and is one of the members of the Health Policy Commission created to help reduce medical spending in that state. Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)