John Friedman
Vascellaro Family Dean, The Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
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Biography
John N. Friedman is the inaugural Vascellaro Family Dean of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and the Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs.
Dean Friedman is a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights. His work is rooted in big-data analysis, with a focus on topics like inequality, poverty, education, and tax policy.
Publications
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan. Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility.
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah Rockoff. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply to Rothstein.
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah Rockoff. Using Lagged Outcomes to Evaluate Bias in Value-Added Models.
- Michal Kolesár, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Edward Glaeser, Guido W. Imbens. Identification and Inference With Many Invalid Instruments.
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah Rockoff. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates.
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Jonah Rockoff. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.
- Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Søren Leth-Petersen, Torben Heien Nielsen, Tore Olsen. Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark.