Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects one in ten people aged 65 or older and is the most expensive disease in the United States. We describe the…
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease…
Imagine a future in which family strengthening programs are so effective that the number of children impacted by abuse or neglect is one-…
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was…
The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made plain just how important the work of retail, grocery and food service workers is. Their jobs put them at…
Despite robust economies, many local officials entered 2020 already worried about budget balances that looked fragile in the short term and…