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“This has long-run negative educational + labor market ramifications for the Black and Hispanic students who get pushed out of these more selective schools.” ICYMI, listen to Zachary Bleemer discuss the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling on affirmative action in NPR: buff.ly/4enkCwh

🍟 What's the impact of California’s $20 #minimumwage for fast food workers? A new report from Michael Reich and Denis Sosinskiy finds the sectoral wage-setting policy yielded higher pay, no changes in job numbers, and modest price increases. irle.berkeley.edu/publications/w… 1/5

The latest installment of Goldman School of Public Policy’s “Five Questions for Faculty” highlights the expertise of Faculty Director Hilary Hoynes in the context of the upcoming election. 🗳️ Learn how the election could shape the future of the US social safety net: buff.ly/4es6D8m

We're happy to hear that Pat Kline of Berkeley Economics is lending his expertise to Econometrica!🌟

Don’t miss this year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture in the Social Sciences on 11/19 — where Faculty co-Director @tedmiguel will present new evidence from a large-scale household census in Kenya. This in-person event is open to the public — register here: go.cega.org/MiguelLecture-…

New research: How did community college enrollment and #CalFresh benefits eligibility change during the COVID-19 pandemic? capolicylab.org/trends-in-comm… 🧵 (1/6)

What were the effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion? Hear from Wendy Edelberg, Hilary Hoynes, Bob Greenstein, Michael R. Strain, Elaine Maag, and Bradley Hardy on 1/30. RSVP here: hamiltonproject.org/event/taking-o…

How can farm-to-school programs affect the diffusion of climate-smart practices? Sayantan (Sunny) Mitra of Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics is exploring this question with the support of O-Lab + Energy Institute at Haas's Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics. 🔗Learn more: olab.berkeley.edu/sloan-gradstud…

🏘️ Public housing can significantly improve long-run outcomes for children, find O-Lab Fellow Raheem Chaudhry + Amanda Eng of U.S. Census Bureau. The authors' latest working paper estimates $1.40 in benefits to children for each $1 spent: raheemchaudhry.com/uploads/ph.pdf

What did we learn from the 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion? What's next for the CTC? Join us online on Jan. 30 for this The Hamilton Project event to discuss findings from our recent ANNALS volume w/ Hilary Hoynes & Megan Curran. See the all-star lineup below! hamiltonproject.org/event/taking-o…

With the support of O-Lab + Energy Institute at Haas Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics, S huo Yu of Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics + her undergraduate mentees are researching how regenerative agricultural practices can⬆️carbon soil sequestration: olab.berkeley.edu/sloan-gradstud…

Large cities’ higher wages are primarily driven by sorting + skill-matching, but on average, the wage premium associated with moving to a larger city is offset completely by housing costs, finds research from @rothstein_jesse, David Card, & Moises Yi: forbes.com/sites/adammill…

🔋🚗What equity gaps persist in CA’s #EV charging infrastructure, and which policy tools can best address these gaps? Ari Ball-Burack of ERGBerkeley is leveraging geospatial data to inform decarbonization efforts, supported by O-Lab + Energy Institute at Haas👉olab.berkeley.edu/energyinstitut…

With the support of O-Lab’s Place-Based Policy Initiative, Chiara Motta of Haas School of Business is using Italian data on stimulus payments to firms from 1996 - 2007 to identify effects on competition + local economic outcomes. 🔗Learn more about the initiative: olab.berkeley.edu/initiative-on-…

🚉How will California’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) project generate economic benefits as it is constructed — and who will those benefits accrue to? 📖In two UCOP briefs, Cecile Gaubert + co-authors present key findings on the project: escholarship.org/uc/item/5n1381… escholarship.org/content/qt1zm5…

❤️‍🩹As Los Angeles recovers from unprecedented wildfires, California's insurance landscape reveals a complex challenge for housing accessibility, highlights Meredith Fowlie Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics in The Indicator from NPR's Planet Money: npr.org/2025/01/16/122…

How do homeownership subsidies impact labor market outcomes across different demographic groups? Joaquín Fuenzalida of Berkeley Economics’s #JMP, supported by O-Lab’s Place-Based Policy Initiative, explores this question in the Chilean context: x.com/JiFuenzalida/s…

As part of O-Lab’s portfolio of regional economic development work, research from Valerie Boctor of Berkeley Economics has found that mortgage forbearance policies may prevent waves of default during economic shocks. 🗺️Explore more Place-Based Policy: olab.berkeley.edu/initiative-on-…

The most important source of racial disparities in criminal court outcomes are punitive practice + laws, rather than biased actors, finds a NBER #workingpaper from Steve Raphael & coauthors: nber.org/papers/w33403