Two distinguished members of the Harvard Economics community have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and scholars in the United States.
A new working paper reveals unexpected common ground, with members of both groups striving for the exact same thing.
Lea Nagel didn’t set out early on to become an academic economist. Instead, her path emerged gradually—through curiosity, experimentation, and a growing fascination with how formal tools can shed light on human behavior. That combination ultimately led...
New research by Harvard economists Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Lawrence Katz, and Matthew Staiger (with Thomas Foster and Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau, and Laura Tach, Cornell) finds children who grow up in well-designed public housing earn more.
