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SPRING 2024 UPDATES
Preview our upcoming events, meet our seven new faculty affiliates, and explore student and faculty spotlight articles highlighting research on transportation & infrastructure development, work requirements in SNAP, and Walmart’s new initiative combatting food waste in Latin America in O-Lab’s latest newsletter.
2023 IN REVIEW
2023 was a year of engaging events, groundbreaking new research from faculty affiliates, continued support to graduate students, and more! Check out this recap to learn more about all we accomplished in the past year.
FALL 2023 UPDATES
What has O-Lab been up to lately? In this newsletter, we celebrate launching year 3 of undergraduate mentoring with the Energy Institute at Haas, Cecile Gaubert's research on attitudes toward high-speed rail, and O-Lab’s newest affiliate, Cailin Slattery.
SPRING 2023 Newsletter
O-Lab has had a busy start to 2023! In this newsletter, we highlight new programming and research spanning topics including the racial employment gap, the minimum wage, and social safety net programs, and share how this work is influencing policy.
2022 IN REVIEW
2022 saw exciting new development for O-Lab, including the launch of a new research initiative focused on child poverty and family economic security, expanded support for work on racial equity in the labor market and environmental policy, new communications staff, and more. Check out our 2022 Year in Review to read all the highlights!
FALL 2022 Newsletter
O-Lab welcomes 2022-2023 Graduate Student grantees, announces a new policy brief summarizing Pre-K research by Chris Walters, highlights research from faculty affiliates Pat Kline, Jesse Rothstein, and Sydnee Caldwell, and more!
2021 Year in Review
2021 was another challenging year, marked by continued pandemic, economic insecurity, and growing political instability around the world. At the same time, O-Lab has continued to generate important evidence on how to best promote economic mobility and racial equity. Take a look at this year’s Year in Review for some highlights.
Fall 2021 Newsletter
O-Lab launches a new Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics in partnership with the Energy Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Hilary Hoynes submits a letter to Congress in support of a permanent Child Tax Credit; Gaubert, Kline, Yagan, and Moretti publish new research on place-based policy, and more…
Year in review 2020
2020 has been an extraordinarily difficult year. O-Lab has struggled with the anxieties and sacrifices alongside everyone else, but we have also been enormously privileged to be spared many of the economic hardships and health risks faced by many essential and front-line workers. We do our work on behalf of these members of our community, and in this Year in Review, we focus on some of the ways we’ve contributed toward building a more an inclusive and equitable society in the years ahead.
October 2020 Newsletter
O-Lab hosts a symposium on labor science in healthcare and education research; Research by Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux was published in QJE; Michael Reich consults on new legislation calling for minimum pay for rideshare drivers; new research from Rucker Johnson on the rising bias due to media coverage of COVID, and more...
july 2020 Newsletter
How much progress have we made toward racial equity in wages and wealth since the 1960s; A Conversation with Elizabeth Linos; new research from Conrad Miller on racial profiling in policing and from Hilary Hoynes on food insecurity due to COVID; coverage of the recent O-Lab discussion on COVID and the safety net, and more…
June 2020 NEWSLETTER
Read the O-Lab Directors’ statement on the killing of George Floyd and on demonstrations throughout the country. Congratulations to O-Lab student fellows, and a welcome to new affiliate Ricardo Perez-Truglia. New research from Ellora Derenoncourt, Sol Hsiang, and Danny Schneider and the Shift Project. Upcoming events at O-Lab, and more..
COVID-19 NEWSLETTER
Jesse Rothstein addressed the critical role social scientists play in crafting smart solutions to the COVID-19 crisis, Danny Schneider and his colleagues at the Shift Project provided critical data on the scale of the problem of unstable work and lack of paid sick leave, and more…
March 2020 Newsletter
Hilary Hoynes was appointed to California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, Rucker Johnson was elected to the National Academy of Education, Jesse Rothstein reviewed the evidence on minimum wage and on EITC's effects on wages and employment, Cecile Gaubert was named a 2020 Sloan Fellow, and more…