New research on employment, minimum wage, the social safety net, & more
Opportunity Lab (O-Lab)
Based at UC Berkeley, O-Lab generates rigorous evidence to inform social policy and advance economic opportunity.
O-Lab has had a busy start to 2023! In this post, we highlight new research spanning topics including the racial employment gap, the minimum wage, and social safety net programs.
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April 14th: 2023 Psychology and Economics of Poverty Convening
This Friday, April 14th, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and O-Lab affiliate Supreet Kaur will host the annual Psychology and Economics of Poverty Convening. The event brings together researchers, implementing partners, and #policymakers to disseminate important #research on the psychological effects of #poverty and downstream consequences for social and economic development.?
Michael Reich: Employment effects of an increased minimum wage
A groundbreaking new study from O-Lab affiliate Michael Reich and coauthors at Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE) finds that #minimumwage increases improve wages for low-wage workers, especially in small businesses. Crucially, authors found no corresponding disemployment effects.
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Check out the full brief?and its news features in?Berkeley News?and?The Lever. For more O-Lab research on the minimum wage,?check out our Research in Review.
Conrad Miller: Suburbanization and Black Employment
In recognition of #BlackHistoryMonth, the National Bureau of Economic Research published a Research Spotlight featuring O-Lab affiliate Conrad Miller . In the video, Miller summarizes his paper,?“When Work Moves: Job Suburbanization and Black Employment,”?which examines how job suburbanization from 1970 to 2000 exacerbated the racial #employment gap.
Hilary Hoynes: What happens when families lose access to WIC??
How does losing access to nutritional support impact families? Recently featured in CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research , new research from O-Lab Director Hilary Hoynes & coauthors examines the consequences of losing access to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (#WIC). The research team found that food insecurity increased – and while nutritional intake for children does not worsen, mothers protect children by consuming less themselves.