Friedman was born to Barbara and Benjamin Friedman.[4] He attended Harvard University,where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2002. He received his master's in statistics the same year. In 2007,Friedman received his PhD in economics from Harvard.[5] At Harvard,Friedman overlapped with his future collaborator Raj Chetty.
During the COVID-19 pandemic,Friedman co-led a group that developed an economic tracker,the Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker. This presented private-sector data on economic trends more frequently and more rapidly than officially published economic statistics.[9]
Personal life
Friedman is married to Hilary Levey Friedman,a visiting assistant professor of education at Brown. The couple met in the fall of 2002 while they were completing fellowships at the University of Cambridge and married in 2010.[10][11] They have two sons.[12]
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