6 Indian Americans in 'Top Global Thinkers List'
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Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty is a professor of economics at Harvard University and 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 has been successful in overturning several age-old assumptions related to economics and ensured a place for him at the U.S. policy debate, by discussing everything from unemployment benefits to tax breaks.

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.