Opportunity Insights

The Power of Relationships, Personalization, and Place: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Economic Mobility in Cities The EdRedesign Lab serves as a catalyst advancing the cradle-to-career field by promoting cross-sector community-based systems of support and opportunity for all children, especially those affected by...

🗓️ Tuesday, 3/3, 4pm ET

📍 Bloomberg Center for Cities | Virtual

🔗 Event details and registration: shorturl.at/OFxy3

Join @oppinsights.bsky.social, Bloomberg Center for Cities, and The EdRedesign Lab (HGSE) next week for a discussion about closing opportunity gaps for low-income students through place-based, personalized supports.

Details below ⬇️

Reminder - Applications for @oppinsights.bsky.social's
predoctoral fellowship that begins summer 2026 are due February 4th. More info on this opportunity below.

How Remaking the Neighborhood Could Boost Poor Kids’ Futures A 1990s government initiative to replace housing projects with mixed-income developments gave children an economic lift as adults, new research finds.

New work from
@oppinsights.bsky.social finds that the HOPE VI program improved kids outcomes. The reason: Whereas the projects HOPE VI replaced were isolated from the surrounding community, the new housing wasn't. 1/2
www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

🔍 Review Key Findings: shorturl.at/LIfpR

📰 Read media coverage:

NYT (shorturl.at/OqBYM)
WSJ (shorturl.at/PW5ia)
NPR (shorturl.at/c1gbh)
Atlantic (shorturl.at/4mzC3)

➡️ Main Finding:
Children who grew up in revitalized public housing earn ~50% more as adults, largely due to more mixed-income social interactions. Place-based investments that connect low-opportunity areas to surrounding neighborhoods can substantially boost economic mobility.

Today, @oppinsights.bsky.social released new research about how low-opportunity neighborhoods can be transformed to offer improved mobility for low-income children using insights from the $17 billion HOPE VI program.

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Applications for our summer 2026 predoctoral research fellowship are due February 4th. Join our webinar to find out more about this opportunity!

🗓️ Wednesday, January 21

🕐 1:00 PM ET

🔗 to register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are hiring several full-time predoctoral #research fellows to start in summer 2026. If you are considering a PhD, interested in #bigdata, #economicopportunity, or #mobility scholarship, a #predoc fellowship at @oppinsights.bsky.social could be a great next step.

📢 OI’s Fall ’25 Newsletter is live!

🔎 New research on personalized student supports
📊 4th Annual Mobility Conference highlights
🌎 Global research + local journalism initiative

Read now: shorturl.at/tQ30D
Subscribe: shorturl.at/ENUDU

🔍 Review Key Findings: shorturl.at/kTaGE

📜 Explore the paper: shorturl.at/wOYP2

➡️ Main Finding:
Pairing in-school services like tutoring with out-of-school resources like food/housing assistance significantly improves both short-run academic outcomes and long-run future earnings.

📚 Today, @oppinsights.bsky.social , in partnership with The EdRedesign Lab (HGSE), released new research about successful approaches to improve outcomes for low-income students, evaluating insights from Communities in Schools.

📢We’re hiring a Data Scientist!

Use big data to shape policies that boost economic mobility.

📍Cambridge, MA | Hybrid
🔗Link to apply: shorturl.at/dQ6Gl

#DataScience #EconomicMobility #Hiring

Event details can be found here:

🔗 shorturl.at/JUQwC

Raj Chetty will be presenting insights from combining experimental and observational data at the @princetonecon.bsky.social Notestein Seminar Series today.

This talk is open to the public.

📍Robertson Hall (100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium)
🕐 10/7, 12 pm - 1 pm EST

📢 OI’s Summer ’25 Newsletter is out!

🔎 Inside: new research on disparities in credit access, how leaders are using OI data, a new local journalism initiative, and how wealth shapes access at elite colleges.
📰 Read: shorturl.at/dz7h2
📬 Sign up: shorturl.at/Iscb7

Reminder - Applications for @oppinsights.bsky.social's
predoctoral fellowship that begins summer 2026 are due October 1st. More info on this opportunity below.

Opinion | The Benefits of a Good ZIP Code Aren’t Bunk Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren defend their research.

📰 Read the WSJ Letter: shorturl.at/CE07t

🧠 Read a more detailed academic response: shorturl.at/AWPbh

#OpportunityInsights #SocialMobility

📍 ZIP codes matter.

Raj Chetty, Eric Chyn, Stefanie DeLuca, John Friedman, Nathan Hendren, Larry Katz, and Bruce Sacerdote respond to claims that neighborhoods don’t shape children’s outcomes. The evidence says otherwise.

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Applications for our summer 2026 predoctoral research fellowship are due October 1st. Join our webinar to find out more about this opportunity!
🗓️Thursday, September 18
🕑 2:00 PM ET
🔗 to register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are hiring several full-time predoctoral #research fellows to start in summer 2026. If you are considering a PhD, interested in #bigdata, #economicopportunity, or #mobility scholarship, a #predoc fellowship at Opportunity Insights could be a great next step.
opportunityinsights.org/joinourteam/

Local Media Association and Comcast launch Economic Opportunity Lab to spotlight local stories of mobility and change Support expands for local journalism in five major cities through funding for 48 outlets PHILADELPHIA (August 20, 2025) – Today, the Local Media Association (LMA) and Comcast NBCUniversal announced th...

🔗Learn more: localmedia.org/2025/08/loca...

#EconomicMobility #LocalNews #OpportunityAtlas #DataToAction

📢Just launched: The Economic Opportunity Lab!

We're partnering with @lma-lmf.bsky.social & Comcast
to support local journalism on economic mobility using OI’s data tools like the Opportunity Atlas.

🗺️Cities include Chicago, Miami, Philly, DC & the Bay Area.

Interested in using insights from the Opportunity Atlas and other OI tools in your community, but don’t know where to start? In addition to these case examples, check out:

📑The Opportunity Atlas - Data Tool Summary: shorturl.at/9O3jh

🎒Resources: shorturl.at/G9vDy

Featuring: Child Poverty Action Lab, Greater Houston Community Foundation, King County Housing Authority, Leading on Opportunity, Marillac Mission Fund, Palo Alto HS, Pima County, Richard King Mellon Foundation, SEAP, Wake Tech Community College, and more to come…

👀Want to learn more about the incredible leaders across the U.S. who are using OI data to improve opportunity in their communities?

Explore examples of data-driven policies and programs across housing, philanthropy, education, and more at: opportunityinsights.org/community-im...

The NBER Methods lectures are happening this week! Find details on how you can tune into Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai's presentations here⬇️

Missed it live?

Yesterday, OI Co-Director Nathan Hendren presented new research on credit access in the U.S. at the NBER Summer Institute. You can now watch the full presentation and explore the findings.

📺Watch: shorturl.at/CIwZr

📚Explore: shorturl.at/gigae

1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown.

djh1202.github.io/website/cre...

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