Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Published: May 24, 2017, 11:52 a.m.

A high school teacher once told Raj Chetty he\u2019d some day serve on the Federal Reserve Board. At the the time Raj thought the comment was silly, since he was busy working in the laboratory on staining techniques for electron microscopy and was set to become a biomedical scientist. About a decade later, however, and Chetty would become one of the youngest tenured economics professors at Harvard and would soon win both a John Bates Clark medal and a MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Fellowship. Now at Stanford, he\u2019s one of the most-cited economists in the world.

Raj\u2019s conversation with Tyler spans that well-cited body of work and more, including social mobility, the value-add of kindergarten teachers, why corporations pay dividends, his love of Piano Guys, the most underrated US state, and why okra may have been the secret of his success.

Read a\xa0full transcript\xa0enhanced with helpful links.

Recorded March 25th, 2017

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