Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility

Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barberá, Monica Bhole, Nils Wernerfelt
May, 2022
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Nature (2022)
Nicolaj Thor
Nicolaj Thor
Economics PhD Student

I’m a PhD student in Economics at Brown University. Previously, I was a predoctoral research fellow at Opportunity Insights based at Harvard. I am interested in economic mobility, development economics, and the role of social capital and networks. I completed my BA in Economics with a minor in Applied Maths at NYU Abu Dhabi in 2019 and received my MA in Economics from Brown in 2023. You can reach me at thor@brown.edu.