Join O-Lab and the Urban Institute as we explore the impacts of providing cash assistance to low-income families with children and discuss how policymakers and researchers can leverage these insights to improve the well-being of some of our nation’s most vulnerable children.
On May 9th, O-Lab invites students and faculty on campus to attend our inaugural Applied Microeconomics Conference on Economic Opportunity. This all-day event will feature research presentations from faculty and lightning talks from graduate students exploring dimensions of poverty, inequality, and opportunity in the United States.
With research presentations from Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, and Hadi Elzayn, plus a moderated conversation between Danny Yagan & Damon Jones, this webinar will review new evidence on racial inequities in unemployment insurance and tax auditing, plus insights into the research to policy pipeline.
With support from the Berkeley Food Institute and the Goldman School of Public Policy, this event will review evidence around nutrition and economic support and feature remarks and moderated conversation between O-Lab Faculty Director Hilary Hoynes and Faculty Affiliate Adam Leive.
Join O-Lab and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research for the 2023 Convening on Regional Inequality and Place-Based Policy! As supported by a growing body of evidence examining how economic inequality has shifted the geography of jobs and opportunity, this event will explore the how the research and policy landscape has shifted toward supporting economic development in low-income regions.
Join O-Lab and the Urban Institute as we explore lessons from the 2021 child tax credit (CTC) expansion regarding program design, take-up, access, and evaluation that can inform state-level programs.
On Friday, February 17th, the Opportunity Lab hosted a student-faculty research workshop highlighting the work of 5 Graduate Student fellows funded through O-Lab’s Place-Based Policy Initiative. Graduate students presented their work studying poverty and inequality through a geographic lens, including topics ranging from internal migration to land use regulations and segregation, and received valuable feedback from O-Lab Faculty Affiliates.
O-Lab Faculty Affiliates Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux, along with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, Opportunity Lab and the Princeton University Program for Research on Inequality, are leading a new research initiative on racial disparities in the labor market and on state and federal economic and social policies to reduce these disparities. One goal of the initiative is building a diverse pipeline of researchers. In late 2021, the initiative provided funding support to 10 graduate students pursuing research on racial and ethnic inequality and economic outcomes. On April 22nd, students will present their research projects as part of a virtual convening.
As we transition into the new administration and a post-COVID economy, California and the Bay Area continue to face serious challenges around housing supply and affordability, homelessness and displacement, and the question of how to ensure broad and equitable economic development.
Join us March 12th for a set of discussions on how research can inform smart policy-making in these areas in the years ahead. 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Over the last decade, advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and new data systems have revolutionized nearly every sector of the economy, and have led to new and exciting research across economic policy areas.
With generous support from Schmidt Futures, the Opportunity Lab’s Labor Science Initiative is coordinating a new community of scholars utilizing cutting-edge data science tools to pose new questions about labor markets and the public sector. On October 9th, the O-Lab will assemble leading researchers in healthcare and education policy to present work that exemplifies the best of this initiative. The workshop will offer a chance for faculty, students, and other colleagues to share insights on their research and to find commonalities in the work done across these applications.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of unemployment and economic uncertainty. Support systems designed to help working people during moments of temporary instability are proving insufficient when work has dried up and the long-term picture is so uncertain. Is it time to rethink our social safety net, for the pandemic and beyond? Are universal basic incomes part of the solution?
On July 1st, at 1 PM PDT, O-Lab will host a one-hour conversation addressing these questions with three of the country’s leading researchers in economic and social welfare policy.
On May 19th, O-Lab will host a virtual conference featuring leading researchers in urban economics and place-based policy. This event, part of O-Lab's Initiative on Inequality and Place, will present a range of new papers on topics such as urban migration patterns, foreclosures, state and local business incentives, and the impacts of place-specific taxes and tax credits. O-Lab's Enrico Moretti and Cecile Gaubert, leaders in the study of place-based policy and new urban economics, have assembled a world-class group of researchers in this space, including Fabian Eckert, Jessie Handbury, Eduardo Morales, and Owen Zidar.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis threatening to become an economic catastrophe that affects tens of millions of Americans. Is the $2 trillion aid package recently passed by Congress and signed by the president enough to keep the economy from freefall? What more is needed?
A panel of UC Berkeley’s leading economists and public policy experts will discuss the economic consequences of sheltering in place, evaluate the Congressional response and discuss strategies that could help to stabilize the economy, safeguard jobs and protect society’s most vulnerable people.
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The Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting will be held January 3 - 5, 2020 in San Diego, CA and will feature O-Lab affiliates Meredith Fowlie, Ted Miguel, David Card and many more!
The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) promotes research and cooperation in labour and applied economics across Asia and Australasia. The third AASLE conference will be hosted by National University of Singapore and will feature keynotes by David Autor and O-Lab Co-Director Hilary Hoynes.
Book talk with authors, UC Berkeley economists and O-Lab affiliates Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, focused on their new book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay. The book presents a forensic investigation into a dramatic transformation that has taken place in recent decades: even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Saez and Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system, based on new statistics covering all taxes paid at all levels of government. Their conclusion? For the first time in more than a century, billionaires now pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Join us to hear Saez and Zucman present their work and take questions from the audience. Hosted by the UC Berkeley Department of Economics, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality, and the Center for Equitable Growth.
Health is a stepping stone to achieving virtually all other human development goals. Yet we continue to face major obstacles in ensuring accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care, especially for people living in poverty. Thankfully, breakthroughs in the types of health data available, the interoperability of health datasets, and the analytical methods used to organize and process these data now enable far more timely and effective decision-making. Additionally, new cross-disciplinary collaborations are revolutionizing the way we understand, track, and respond to global health challenges.
Hosted by the Center for Effective Global Action, Evidence to Action (E2A) 2019 will highlight novel tools and methods to drive better health outcomes for people around the world.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) will host a major conference on "Combating Inequality: Rethinking Policies to Reduce Inequality in Advanced Economies," on October 17–18, 2019. The event will feature talks by O-Lab affiliates Emmanuel Saez, Hilary Hoynes, Jesse Rothstein and Gabriel Zucman.
The GSPP Policy Research Seminar is an ongoing series that highlights academic research of direct relevance to real-world public policy. Faculty, PhD students, MPP students and staff are invited from any part of the UC Berkeley community and beyond.
Solomon Hsiang kicks off the the first Policy Research Seminar with his talk: Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits.
A roundtable discussion on the fight against poverty in California and nationwide, hosted by Congresswoman Barbara Lee. The roundtable will feature a presentation by O-Lab Co-Director Hilary Hoynes and other representatives from the National Academy of Sciences on their groundbreaking February 2019 report, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty.
To RSVP, please email RSVP2povertyroundtable@gmail.com by Thursday August 22, 2019 at 5pm PT.
O-Lab affiliate Rucker C. Johnson will present findings from his new book “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works” followed by an insightful dialogue with Chris Edley, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley and Prudence Carter, Dean Graduate School of Education.
The first event in a new joint UC Berkeley-UCSF Population Health Series: Data Science for Advancing Population Health. Speakers include Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, William H. Dow, Rita Hamad and O-Lab affiliate Jesse Rothstein. The event will present a vision for population health data science in 2020 and beyond and provide a forum for UCSF and UCB faculty to discuss cutting edge topics related to population health and data science.
O-Lab affiliate Solomon Hsiang will lead a discussion on data for adaption to climate change, moderated by Marshall Burke. This event is part of the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development Speaker Series, which features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers. The goal of the series is to foster discussion about successes and challenges in the field of poverty alleviation and development. Learn more here.
Discussions about the future of work have focused on the idea that technology will soon reduce or alter the need for human labor in many occupations. Has this conventional narrative failed to focus on the key challenges facing workers today and in the future?
Join O-Lab and IRLE for a talk by Paul Osterman of MIT who will offer a perspective on these discussions and how they relate to addressing the challenge of a large low wage labor market.
O-Lab affiliate Gabriel Zucman will speak on globalization, taxes and inequality at UC Berkeley’s Cal Day Economics Faculty Spotlight.
Join O-Lab Co-Director Hilary Hoynes for a talk on the evidence from the Food Stamp Program. After Social Security, the Food Stamp Program touches the lives of more American families than any other element of the social safety net. What is the impact of this program on the long-term outcomes of children who receive these resources early in life? Hoynes finds that access to food stamps in childhood leads to long-term improvements in human capital, quality of life, and mortality. Learn more here.
Come learn about "Climate Change & Human Mortality" with O-Lab affiliate Solomon Hsiang. He will discuss recent research on how populations around the word may be impacted, often unequally, by climate change as well as how these populations may adapt. Find more information here.
O-Lab’s Co-Director Hilary Hoynes will be moderating a talk on economic and health disparities. Entitled “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,” the event features Anne Case of Princeton University as well respondents Mahasin Mujahid and Ron Lee. Learn more here.
Inequality has become a central focus of policy discussions, but inequality has multiple dimensions and correspondingly many potential policy interventions. This mini-conference will consider inequality from this broad perspective. The event will feature a keynote by Peter Orszag, and presentations from O-Lab faculty Hilary Hoynes and Gabriel Zucman.
O-Lab affiliate Meredith Fowlie will be speaking at UC Davis on the real world application of market based environmental regulations.
About: Economists generally agree that carbon pricing should be a core component of any meaningful policy response to climate change. But this compelling economic idea has been difficult to translate into politically feasible policy. Over the past two decades, experimentation around the world has been progressing slowly and with mixed results. In many respects, California has been at the bleeding edge of these efforts. Fowlie will unpack some of the empirical evidence on carbon pricing impacts across a range of economic outcomes and focus on some important challenges.
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