Research from Cecile Gaubert, Danny Yagan, Damián Vergara, and Patrick Kline unpacks how a “democratization of poverty” alongside “concentrat[ing] affluence” presents an opportunity for place-based policies to support regional economic development.
Event Recap: New findings on racial equity in UI + tax credits
Event recordings from O-Lab’s Dec. 1 webinar, New findings on racial equity in UI + tax credits.
Event Recap: The Future of SNAP & The US Social Safety Net
Event recordings from The Future of SNAP & The US Social Safety Net.
Lessons From The 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion Informing State Policy Debates
Blog post in collaboration with The Urban Institute, summarizing key takeaways from O-Lab’s convening on Enhancing Child Well-Being with Cash Assistance.
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá
Procurement & Infrastructure Costs
Event Recordings: 2023 Place-Based Policy Convening
Event recordings from the 2023 Convening on Regional Inequality & Place-Based Policy.
Political Preferences and the Spatial Distribution of Infrastructure: Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail
The Long-Term Economic Impacts of Federal Employment Segregation
Research brief summarizing work by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu.
Research in Review: The Minimum Wage
Competing for (In)attention: Price Discrimination in Residential Electricity Markets
Promoting Economic Well-Being During COVID-19 through the Unemployment Insurance Program
Literature review by Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, and Joseph Broadus.
Perspectives on the Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit and the Development of a New Research Agenda on Child and Family Economic Well-Being
O-Lab Program Manager Joe Broadus, Faculty Director Hilary Hoynes, and colleagues at the Urban Institute share key takeaways from a convening gathering stakeholder input on a new research agenda on child and family economic well-being.
The Power of Pre-K
Research brief summarizing work by O-Lab affiliate Christopher Walters (UC Berkeley), Guthrie Gray-Lobe (University of Chicago), and Parag Pathak (MIT).
New Student Research Builds Evidence on Different Dimensions of Inequality
Program Manager Joe Broadus recaps new student research on how employment policy can advance or reduce racial disparities in the labor market and promote equitable economic growth.
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
Research brief summarizing work by Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh, and Frank Schilbach.
An Introduction to the Place-Based Policy Initiative
Inequality and Place: Promoting Opportunity and Growth through Place Based Policy is working to build a research ecosystem around our world-class faculty working on issues of local and regional development to contribute new evidence to U.S. anti-poverty and economic mobility strategies.
How the North’s Response to the Great Migration Undermined Black Upward Mobility
California Housing and Homelessness in a Post-Covid Economy
Labor Science in Healthcare and Education Research
This virtual presentation series assembles researchers in healthcare and education policy to present work from the Opportunity Lab’s Labor Science Initiative, providing the opportunity for researchers to exchange insights from exploring issues of inequality and opportunity using new data science tools.