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 recordings from O-Lab’s Dec. 1 webinar, New findings on racial equity in UI + tax credits.
Blog post in collaboration with The Urban Institute, summarizing key takeaways from O-Lab’s convening on Enhancing Child Well-Being with Cash Assistance.
Nick Tsivanidis develops a quantitative model to estimate the effects of improving public transit infrastructure on city structure and welfare.
Cailin Slattery & coauthors Zachary Liscow and Will Nober create a new dataset of infrastructure procurement rules and practices across the United States to better understand perceived cost drivers.
Cecile Gaubert explores how political preferences shape transportation policy, with evidence from California’s High-Speed Rail.
Research brief summarizing work by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu.
O-Lab highlights faculty research on the minimum wage and its consequences for employment, quality of life, racial equity, and the gig economy.
Jenya Kahn-Lang, PhD candidate in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, studies how low-income households and marginalized communities pay systematically higher electricity prices than their higher-income counterparts.
Literature review by Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, and Joseph Broadus.
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.
Research brief summarizing work by O-Lab affiliate Christopher Walters (UC Berkeley), Guthrie Gray-Lobe (University of Chicago), and Parag Pathak (MIT).
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.
Research brief summarizing work by Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh, and Frank Schilbach.
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.
Summary of research by Ellora Derenoncourt.
This O-Lab event brings together Berkeley faculty, elected officials, practitioners, policy analysts, and journalists to address challenges around housing supply and affordability, homelessness and displacement, and equitable economic development.
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.
Research brief summarizing work by Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux.
Research brief summarizing work by Abhay P. Aneja and Carlos F. Avenancio-León.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) hosted a Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19 live event, “COVID-19 in the global south: Economic Impacts and Recovery, featuring O-Lab affiliates Josh Blumenstock, Supreet Kaur, and Ted Miguel.
Part of O-Lab’s Initiative on Inequality and Place, this virtual conference featured new work on topics such as urban migration patterns, foreclosures, state and local business incentives, and the impacts of place-specific taxes and tax credits.
Panel discussion with with Jesse Rothstein, Hilary Hoynes, Gabriel Zucman, Ellora Derenoncourt, and Henry Brady.
Summary of research by Janet Currie, John Voorheis, and Reed Walker.
Presentation at CEGA’s Evidence 2 Action Conference by Edward Miguel.
Presentation by Hilary Hoynes at CEGA’s Evidence 2 Action Conference.
Discussion between Emmanuel Saez, Lawrence Summers, and Greg Mankiw at The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) conference on "Combating Inequality: Rethinking Policies to Reduce Inequality in Advanced Economies.”
Research brief summarizing work by Conrad Miller.