Vox, February 28, 2017: These colleges are better than Harvard at making poor kids rich
“But the latest research by the Equality of Opportunity project — helmed by Stanford’s Raj Chetty, Brown’s John Friedman, and Harvard’s Nathaniel Hendren — suggests that this is a myth. Chetty and Friedman, along with co-authors Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan (both at UC Berkeley), and Nicholas Turner at the US Treasury, used a massive data set covering 10.8 million people born between 1980 and 1982 to estimate individual colleges’ effect on students’ odds of moving into a higher rung of the income distribution.”