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2025, Paper: "We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distri- bution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income…
June 2022, Paper: "Targeting programs during childhood is the best way to increase upward economic mobility. A defining feature of the American Dream is upward mobility—the…
January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next…
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies. Nathaniel Hendren, August 2018, Paper, "We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past…
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, March 2018, Paper, "We study the sources of racial and ethnic…
The Impact of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimate. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, 2016, Paper, "We characterize the effects of neighborhoods on…
Measuring Ex-Ante Welfare in Insurance Markets. Nathaniel Hendren, October 2016, Paper, "Insurance has value by insuring against the realization of risk. Adverse selection…
Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance. Nathaniel Hendren, August 2015, Paper, "This paper studies the positive and normative…
Private Information and Unemployment Insurance. Nathaniel Hendren, July 19, 2015, Paper. "I provide empirical evidence that private information limits the ability to insure the…
Where is the Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, June 2014, Paper. "We use administrative records…