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Opportunity Lab

@berkeleyolab.bsky.social

Based at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, O-Lab generates rigorous evidence to inform social policy and advance economic opportunity. #econsky #policysky Learn more at olab.berkeley.edu, or find us at linkedin.com/company/berkeley-olab.

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Don't miss @mc-lens.bsky.social's book talk at @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social next week! Lens will share research on how Black neighborhoods have changed in the past 50 years, + discuss policies that could shape the next 50 years of progress towards racial equity. www.olab.berkeley.edu/olab-events/...

Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods | Opportunity Lab

On September 3 at 4pm, join O-Lab and Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)  for a discussion with Michael Lens of UCLA about his new book examining how Black neighborh...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Researchers have theorized that #affirmativeaction policies pushed white voters toward the Republican party through the 1970s and 1980s. Work from Abhay Aneja + @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social suggests that this "backlash" narrative could be more complex: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The Political Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Court Mandates to Law Enforcement Agencies | The Journal of Legal Studies: Vol 54, No 2

Abstract Affirmative action programs in public sector agencies are a canonical example of race-conscious remedial policy. While these regimes increase public sector diversity, they may also generate p...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🗺️ In a new interactive report, we break down trends in spatial inequality and explore how place-based policy tools may open up more equitable pathways to economic mobility: readymag.website/u440546056/5...

Spatial inequality: what we know and where we're headed | Readymag

The divide between high- and low-opportunity places is more visible than ever, perpetuating long-run inequities and drawing the attention of policymakers. This presentation to review the evidence on r...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The landscape of US #highered is changing. @jrothst.bsky.social breaks down the conditions attached to donations, how endowments can be managed, and how research funding negotiations between universities and the federal government are unfolding in @laist.com:

What goes into a university budget? And how do endowments work? Let an expert be your guide

Million dollar settlements to regain federal funding? Rising tuition, but layoffs and course cuts? We're here to help.

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🏘️ On Sep. 3, join O-Lab + @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social in for a book talk w/ @mc-lens.bsky.social on “Where the Hood At: Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods." @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social Learn more and add the event to your calendar👇

Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods | Opportunity Lab

On September 3 at 4pm, join O-Lab and Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)  for a discussion with Michael Lens of UCLA about his new book examining how Black neighborh...

olab.berkeley.edu

Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

“Not all of these adverse effects are inevitable.” In a recent interview, Will Dow of @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social unpacks how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will change the state of US #healthcare over the next 10 years. 👉 Read the full interview: publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/new...

What do the looming cuts to Medicaid really mean?

Health policy expert Will Dow breaks down the risks—and potential state-level response.

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

💼 In a study of how formerly incarcerated jobseekers experience the labor market, David Harding & coauthors found that employers favor applicants that describe economic motivations, as opposed to justice system failures, to contextualize their pasts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Narratives and destigmatization: the case of criminal record stigma in the labor market - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Sociologists use the concept of narrative as an analytical tool and theoretical concept to understand the stories that people tell and their role in social and cultural life. A key tenet of prior rese...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

🔋 The 2022 #InflationReductionAct represented the largest federal #climate investment in U.S. history. Research from John Bistline & Catherine Wolfram reveals the scale of what America stands to lose as recent policy changes dismantle these provisions: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Inflation Reduction Act: Origins, Policy Implications, and Research Gaps | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Abstract The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the largest federal climate legislation in the United States so far. The breadth and complexity of IRA’s energy and climate provisions raise new questions...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

🇫🇷A 2011 reform to the French wealth tax simplified reporting requirements for taxpayers whose wealth was below €3 million, a threshold further reduced to €2.57 million in 2013. Mathilde Muñoz + coauthors have now identified that the reform significantly spurred tax evasion (via @cepr.org)

The importance of information for tax design: Evidence from the French wealth tax

Many countries are considering introducing or reforming their wealth tax policies. This column studies the effects of a French wealth tax reform, which reduced reporting requirements, on taxpayer behaviour. The scaling back of reporting requirements had large negative effects on tax compliance, with 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets and evading 10% of their total wealth tax payments each year. The findings indicate that taxpayers are more likely to under-report the value of less easily verifiable assets such as housing, whereas financial assets are more transparent and thus harder to manipulate.

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

💭 Envisioning a better future is crucial to creating one. Kevin Yin is developing a spatial model to inform our understanding of what an ideal electricity grid for the United States might look like, as part of O-Lab's portfolio of work on Transportation & Infrastructure development.

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚘 Many municipalities require that a percentage of private lots' square footage is set aside for parking, creating direct costs for governments and developers. John Kadlick is exploring indirect costs to productivity and effects on commuters. #econsky

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

How does criminal justice system involvement interact with labor market success? Recent evidence from Sweden informs our understanding of the negative effect of a criminal record on earnings + employment. 📖 Check out the working paper from Conrad Miller + coauthors: www.nber.org/papers/w33865

Job Sorting and the Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

💬 For two years, Alice Schmitz has participated in O-Lab + Energy Institute at Haas's Energy & Environmental Economics Mentorship Program. We sat down with Alice to discuss her approach to mentorship, plus her work measuring the effects of natural disasters: www.olab.berkeley.edu/profiles-con...

Alice Schmitz & the next generation of environmental economics research | Opportunity Lab

Alice Schmitz is a fourth-year PhD student in UC Berkeley's Economics Department who is investigating the physical and economic damages from natural disasters. For the last two years, she has also ser...

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

According to preliminary estimates from the #CBO, Republicans' tax and budget bill, officially named the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," would cut #Medicaid by over $800B over the next 10 years – reducing enrollment by over 10M people. What would this mean for US health and economic outcomes? 🧵

Medicaid keeps getting more popular as Republicans aim to cut it by $800 billion

Americans across the political spectrum like Medicaid and think it should get more funding, not less, according to a new poll from health research organization KFF.

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Upjohn Institute@upjohninstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Many states ban employers from asking for workers' salary histories, but this doesn’t eliminate gender gaps in hiring—most workers disclose their histories, and their salary expectations, voluntarily. www.upjohn.org/research-hig... @berkeleyolab.bsky.social‬ @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social‬

Employers' negotiating separately with each worker fuels gender pay gap

Women earn 5 percent less than men, on average, at employers that bargain individually

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Opportunity Lab@berkeleyolab.bsky.social · last yr.

🏘️🚘 O-Lab's Transportation & Infrastructure portfolio is supporting work by Silvia Farina, a PhD candidate in Business & Public Policy. Her project uses registration records to understand how car adoption has shaped the US, providing context for today's infrastructure, transit, + zoning policies.

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