Publications
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Reforming California’s Approach to Incarceration: The Role of Second Look Policies
September 24, 2025 -
Navigating California’s Wildfire Insurance Challenge: Community Demographics and the FAIR Plan
September 18, 2025 -
Interventions to Bolster Benefits Take-Up: Assessing Intensity, Framing, and Targeting of Government Outreach
September 9, 2025 -
BLOG: What Have We Learned? Takeaways From the California Policy Lab’s Research on College Student Participation in SNAP
July 22, 2025 -
BLOG: SNAP Cuts Threaten Food Security for California’s College Students
June 11, 2025 -
Supporting Young People’s Food Security: CalFresh Participation During and After High School
April 22, 2025 -
BLOG: Congress Made More College Students Eligible for Food Benefits During the Pandemic. Should Those Changes Be Permanent?
January 31, 2025 -
Does GAIN increase the self-sufficiency of CalWORKs families in Los Angeles?
November 12, 2024 -
Bail Reform in San Francisco: Pretrial Release and Intensive Supervision Increased After Humphrey
November 7, 2024 -
Providing Early Legal Counsel Reduces Jail Time and Improves Case Outcomes
November 7, 2024 -
How did the higher minimum wage in the City of Los Angeles impact the earnings and employment of low-wage workers?
October 24, 2024 -
Who Benefits from Automatic Record Relief in California?
October 17, 2024 -
Eliminating fees in the Alameda County juvenile justice system meaningfully reduced financial burdens on families
September 9, 2024 -
BLOG: Most Eligible College Students Don’t Participate in SNAP. How Can Colleges Change That?
September 5, 2024 -
The Short-Term Impacts of Bail Policy on Crime in Los Angeles
August 27, 2024 -
Filling the Gap: CalFresh Eligibility Among University of California and California Community College Students
August 22, 2024 -
Aging Out of Foster Care in Los Angeles: Opportunities to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Aged Youth
July 30, 2024 -
BLOG: Qualifying for Public Food Benefits Is More Complicated for College Students. The EATS Act Would Make It Easier
June 20, 2024 -
Bringing Families Home Program Evaluation
May 7, 2024 -
UI Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002-2020: Evidence from California UI Records
April 9, 2024 -
Consecutive Sentencing in California
February 15, 2024 -
Regional Variation in Community College Student Outcomes in California
January 30, 2024 -
Solid Ground Evaluations
August 29, 2023 -
Sentence Enhancements in California
March 23, 2023 -
BLOG: The Role of Social Safety-Net Programs in College Student Success
January 26, 2023 -
Increasing Stimulus Payment Take-up in California: Results from a Phone and Email Campaign
December 14, 2022 -
Expirations of Pandemic Jobless Programs Caused an Unprecedented Drop in Access to UI
December 1, 2022 -
Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
November 22, 2022 -
Short-Time Compensation in the U.S. and California from 2000 to 2022: A Descriptive Analysis of Program Incidence and Worker Outcomes
November 18, 2022 -
How the Expanded Child Tax Credit Helped California Families
October 26, 2022 -
Signals of Distress: High Utilization of Criminal Legal and Urgent and Emergent Health Services in San Francisco
September 27, 2022 -
Identifying the impacts of job training programs in California
September 7, 2022 -
Three Strikes in California
August 30, 2022 -
Letters of Recommendation at UC Berkeley
July 28, 2022 -
Racial Equity in Eligibility for a Clean Slate under Automatic Criminal Record Relief Laws
July 19, 2022 -
Connecting Families to Benefits Using Linked Data: a Toolkit
March 31, 2022 -
The ‘Gig Economy’ and Independent Contracting: Evidence from California Tax Data
March 1, 2022 -
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the Pandemic: Lessons from US and California
February 10, 2022 -
The Impacts of the Make-it-Right Program on Recidivism
January 27, 2022 -
December 2021 Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claims in CA During the Pandemic
December 8, 2021 -
Simplifying communications can help high school students navigate college costs and the Cal Grant program
October 21, 2021 -
The California Highway Patrol: An Evaluation of Public Contacts in Stop Data
October 11, 2021 -
Measuring the CalEITC Take-up Gap among CalFresh enrollees
July 14, 2021 -
Validation of the Public Safety Assessment in San Francisco
July 13, 2021 -
10 Key Trends from the Unemployment Crisis in CA – and Their Implications for Policy Reform
April 29, 2021 -
March 2021 Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claims in CA During the Pandemic
March 18, 2021 -
Pushed out by paperwork: Why eligible Californians leave CalFresh
January 29, 2021 -
RIPA in the Los Angeles Police Department: Summary Report
October 27, 2020 -
Measuring the labor market at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis
August 3, 2020 -
Alternatives to Prosecution: San Francisco’s Collaborative Courts and Pretrial Diversion
July 20, 2020 -
High Utilizers of Multiple Systems in Sonoma County
July 7, 2020 -
Increasing Take-Up of the Earned Income Tax Credit
January 21, 2020 -
Who receives the Earned Income Tax Credit in California?
October 21, 2019 -
Connecting the Dots: Harnessing Integrated Data to Improve Education in California
February 27, 2019 -
The Effect on Crime of Redeploying to Foot Patrols
December 5, 2018 -
Are Public Defenders Better at Indigent Defense than Court-Appointed Attorneys?
November 20, 2018 -
Increasing the Take-Up of Cal Grants
November 8, 2018 -
Does New School Construction Impact Student Test Scores and Attendance?
October 1, 2017 -
California’s Enhanced Drug and Contraband Interdiction Program
April 29, 2017