Trump touts V-shaped economic recovery, while Biden sees it K-shaped (commentary by John Friedman)
October 19, 2020 CNBC
This article draws on data analysis by, and features commentary from, John Friedman, co-director of Opportunity Insights.
John N. Friedman
John N. Friedman
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Biography
John N. Friedman is a professor of economics and international affairs and public policy at Brown University. He is also a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University, a research and policy institute using big data to understand the forces influencing upward mobility and develop scalable policy solution to increase it. Friedman's research has yielded policy-relevant insights on a wide range of topics, including education access and quality, taxation, healthcare, and data privacy. His work has appeared in top academic journals as well as in major media outlets. His most well-known papers estimate the effects of childhood influences (including neighborhoods, teacher and education quality, and access to higher education) on long-term outcomes such as earnings and incarceration. Friedman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the White House from 2013-2014. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Co-Editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Publications
"The SOI Databank: A case study in leveraging administrative data in support of evidence-based policymaking," w/ Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Vol. 34 (1), pp. 99-103 (2018).
"The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility," w/ Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter. NBER Working Paper Series, no. 25147, 10/01/2018, Non-Peer Reviewed, In Revision.
“Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments” w/ Michal Kolesar, Raj Chetty, Edward L. Glaeser and Guido W. Imbens (2013) Revise and resubmit at JBES
“Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Estimating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates.” w/ Raj Chetty and Jonah Rockoff
American Economic Review, Vol. 104 (9), pp. 2593-2632 (2014)
“Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.” w/ Raj Chetty and Jonah Rockoff
American Economic Review, Vol. 104 (9), pp. 2633-2679 (2014)
“Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings: Evidence from Denmark” w/ Raj Chetty, Soren Leth-Petersen, Torben H. Nielsen, and Tore Olsen. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 129(3), (2014)
“Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhood to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings” w/ Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez. American Economic Review, Vol. 103 (7), pp. 2683-2721 (2013)
"How Does Your Kindergarten Class Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR" w/ Raj Chetty, Nate Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 126 (4), pp. 1593-1660 (2011)
“Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Denmark” w/ Raj Chetty, Tore Olsen, and Luigi Pistaferri. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126 (2), pp. 749-804 (2011)
Teaching
MPA 2455 Statistics for Public Policy
Talks & Media
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Are America's colleges promoting social mobility? - APM Reports
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America, Land of Equal Opportunity? Still Not There - Bloomberg
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The Ivy League Students Least Likely to Get Married - The Upshot
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Higher Ed and the American Dream - Inside Higher Ed
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Top public universities are shutting out poor students, report says - Washington Post
News|Recent News
How the coronavirus has widened the chasm between rich and poor (commentary by John Friedman)
September 24, 2020 NBC News
This article draws on data analysis by, and features commentary from, John Friedman, co-director of Opportunity Insights.
U.S. household wealth hits record high even as economy struggles (John Friedman cited)
September 22, 2020 Associated Press
This article draws on data analysis by John Friedman, co-director of Opportunity Insights.
Metrics show consumers pulling back on spending in September as Congress debates second stimulus (John Friedman cited)
September 21, 2020 CNBC
Continuing coverage: This column draws on data analysis by John Friedman, co-director of Opportunity Insights.
Her school offered a path to the middle class. Will Covid-19 block it? (John Friedman cited)
September 9, 2020 New York Times
This article notes that in 2017, a team of economists led by John Friedman published a paper that issued "mobility report cards" to more than 2,000 American colleges and universities, grading each one on its effectiveness in elevating low-income students into the upper middle class and beyond.
Edtech failed the pandemic test (Opportunity Insights cited)
August 31, 2020 Marker
This article draws on data from Opportunity Insights, co-directed by John Friedman.
What the recovery really looks like (Opportunity Insights cited)
August 24, 2020 Forbes
This column draws on data analysis by John Friedman which shows that low wage jobs remain in short supply amid COVID-19.