In an effort to support new policy-relevant research on health and consumer finance, CPL provided seed grants for UC students and faculty from 2021 through mid 2024 as part of a grant by UCOP’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives. Though CPL’s initial funding for Seed Grants and Graduate Fellowships has ended, if you are interested in providing support for student-led policy-research, please reach out to development@capolicylab.org.
The funded research projects incorporated one of CPL’s datasets:
- Health Data Access Initiative (HDAI) – Medicare and Medicaid data
- The University of California Consumer Credit Panel (UC CCP) – Financial and residency data from one of the nationwide credit bureaus
- To cover data-access or data-hosting costs at CPL (eg, for a project approved through PERLI or for data hosting of other CA admin data)
Seed Grant Awardees
David Swanson, Professor of Sociology at UC Riverside, for a project entitled “Equity in Disaster and Forced Migration.”
Elaine Shen, PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “Understanding Student Loan Aversion.”
Steve Ramos, PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “When the Credit Dries Up: Examining the Effect of Water Utility Surcharges on Consumer Credit.”
Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “Mergers and Acquisitions of Provider Organizations and Effects on Medicaid Enrollees.”
Michael Span, PhD candidate at UC Irvine, for a project entitled “Partisan Costs of Unfulfilled Student Loan Forgiveness.”
Donovan Rasamoelison, PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, for a project entitled “Buy now, forgiven later? Policy adoption uncertainty and personal finance: Evidence from the student loan forgiveness program.”
Molly Shatto, PhD candidate at UC San Diego for a project entitled “Student Loan Debt and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumption.”
Katherine Chen, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA, for a project entitled “Trajectories of residential migration and financial well-being among residents of low-income housing.”
Junru Lyu, PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, for a project titled “Experience Effect of Homeownership Choice.”
Teresita Cruz Vital and Kassandra Hernandez, PhD candidates at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “CADAA Estudiante Cuenta: The Effects Of The California DREAM Act Application On Undocumented Student Success.”
Min Lee, PhD candidate at UCSD, for a project entitled “Pharmaceutical Industry Payments and Opioid Supply.”
Victoria Wang, PhD candidate at UCLA, for a project entitled “Pregnancy and Financial Outcomes.”
Sarah Papich, PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, for a project entitled “Effects of Buy Now, Pay Later on Financial Well-Being.” Sarah also received a Graduate Fellowship grant.
Niklas Flamang, PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “Why is financial distress so seasonal?”
Eva Lyubich, PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, for a project entitled “The Relationship Between Energy Burden, Economic Insecurity, and Race.” Lyubich also received a Graduate Fellowship grant.
Woongchan Jeon, PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara, for a project entitled “The distributional impacts of wildfires on household balance sheets in the Western United States.” Woongchan also received a Graduate Fellowship grant.
Katherine Meckel, Assistant Professor of Economics at UC San Diego, and Min Lee, PhD Candidate at UC San Diego, for their project entitled “The Effect of Participation in the SNAP Program on Financial Stability Among Low-Income Households in California.”
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