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.
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.
COVID-19 in the Global South: Economic Impacts and Recovery
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.
Research Workshop on Place-Based-Policy and Urban Economics
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.
COVID-19: Economic Impacts, Human Responses
Panel discussion with with Jesse Rothstein, Hilary Hoynes, Gabriel Zucman, Ellora Derenoncourt, and Henry Brady.
Hilary Hoynes on the Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Food Stamps
Presentation by Hilary Hoynes at CEGA’s Evidence 2 Action Conference.
Twenty Year Economics Impacts of Deworming in Kenya
Presentation at CEGA’s Evidence 2 Action Conference by Edward Miguel.
Would a wealth tax help combat inequality?
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.”