Indian American Economist Wins 'Baby Nobel'

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Bangalore: Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard, has been honoured with the 2013 John Bates Clark Medal, which is often referred to as the 'Baby Nobel'. The American Economic Association annually honours an "American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge" and this time it is this Delhi Born economist.

"Raj Chetty is a remarkably productive economist whose contributions assimilate evidence using a variety of methodological perspectives to shed new light on important public policy questions," the American Economic Association said in a statement, "he has established himself in a few short years as arguably the best applied microeconomist of his generation’’, as reported       by        Chidanand       Rajghatta        of         TNN.

Apart from working as a professor of economics at Harvard University, he also serves the post of the director of the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at the university. He was a former professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Chetty, a 2012 MacArthur Fellow has published numerous papers in prestigious journals, such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Political Economy. He was listed as one of the top 8 young economists in the world by The Economist in the year 2008 and he is one among the most cited young economists in the world.

Chetty holds a graduation in arts from Harvard University and he also received a Ph.D from the same university in the year 2003.