Keith Romer

I'm Keith Romer.

And I'm Greg Rosalski.

And all jokes and bad impressions aside, that evidence, it is actually really compelling.

Raj and his team got access to all this data for more than a million families in public housing across three decades.

And they are releasing their analysis of that data in a working paper today.

This podcast, it's hot off the presses.

This is big for us.

Yeah, I guess, Keith, some people have Tom Brady.

I have Raj Chetty.

Well, if it is not the Beyonce of economics.

So Raj is kind of an icon.

He leads this research group at Harvard called Opportunity Insights.

They do world-class research on really important problems.

You know, they try to figure out what actually works to fight poverty, reduce inequality, and make the American dream like a reality for low-income people.

Those younger kids who moved to better-off neighborhoods ended up being more likely to go to college and to earn more as adults.

All right.

Moving kids works, but it isn't scalable.

So what if you flip that idea on its head?

What if instead of moving low income kids to better off neighborhoods, you can move better off neighborhoods to those kids?

You know, maybe there's a way to transform poor neighborhoods themselves into places that help kids escape poverty.