Working Papers
Hahn, Robert W., Nathaniel Hendren, Robert D. Metcalfe, Ben Sprung-Keyser. Working Paper. "A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change."
Executive Summary, Appendix
Boning, Will C., Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser, and Ellen Stuart. Working Paper. "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."
Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Executive Summary
Sprung-Keyser, Ben, Nathaniel Hendren, and Sonya Porter. Working Paper. "The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets."
Hendren, Nathaniel, and Ben Sprung-Keyser. Working Paper. "The Case for the MVPF in Empirical Welfare Analysis."
Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya Porter. Working Paper. "The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility."
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
Executive Summary, Slides
Journal Articles
Herbst, Daniel, and Nathaniel Hendren. "Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital."
Accepted, American Economic Review.
Executive Summary, Slides, Unraveling Example Slides
Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer. Forthcoming. "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice."
Accepted, American Economic Review
Executive Summary, Slides
Chetty, Raj, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, et al. 2022. "Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness." Nature 608: 122-134
Chetty, Raj, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, et al. 2022. "Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility." Nature 608: 180-121
Landais, Camille, Nathaniel Hendren, and Johannes Spinnewijn. 2021. “Choice in Insurance Markets: A Pigouvian Approach to Social Insurance Design”. Annual Review of Economics 13: 457–486.
Publishers Version
Finkelstein, Amy, and Nathaniel Hendren. 2020. “Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 34 (4): 146-167.
Hendren, Nathaniel, and Ben Sprung-Keyser. 2020. “A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (3): 1209-1318.
Publisher's Version, Appendix, Executive Summary, Slides
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya Porter. 2020. “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (2): 711–783.
Executive Summary, Slides
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2020. “Measuring Ex-Ante Welfare in Insurance Markets.” Review of Economic Studies 88 (3): 1193–1223.
Publisher's Version
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2020. “Measuring Economic Efficiency Using Inverse-Optimum Weights.” Journal of Public Economics 187.
Slides
Finkelstein, Amy, Nathaniel Hendren, and Mark Shepard. 2019. “Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts.” American Economic Review 109 (4).
Publisher's Version, Executive Summary
Finkelstein, Amy, Nathaniel Hendren, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. 2019. “The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.” Journal of Political Economy 127 (6).
Appendix
Chetty, Raj, and Nathaniel Hendren. 2018. “The Impact of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (3).
Slides, Previous Version
Chetty, Raj, and Nathaniel Hendren. 2018. “The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (3).
Publisher's Version, Previous Version, Slides
Chetty, Raj, David Grusky, Nathaniel Hendren, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang. 2017. “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Science.
Publisher's Version, Executive Summary, Slides
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2017. “Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance.” American Economic Review 107 (7): 1778-1823.
Publisher's Version, Slides, Replication Codes
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Frina Lin, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Benjamin Scuderi. 2016. “Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz. 2016. “The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Project.” American Economic Review 106 (4).
Slides
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2016. “The Policy Elasticity.” Tax Policy and the Economy 30.
Slides
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, and Nicholas Turner. 2014. “Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 104 (5).
Slides
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez. 2014. “Where is the Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (4): 1553-1623.
Publisher's Version, Slides
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2014. “Unraveling versus Unraveling: A Memo on Competitive Equilibriums and Trade in Insurance Markets.” Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 39 (2): 176-183.
Slides
Gruber, Jonathan, Nathaniel Hendren, and Robert M Townsend. 2014. “The Great Equalizer: Health Care Access and Infant Mortality in Thailand.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (1): 91 - 107.
Hendren, Nathaniel. 2013. “Private Information and Insurance Rejections.” Econometrica 81 (5): 1713-1762.
Slate Article, Supplemental Appendix, Underwriting Guidelines, Slides