The theme of this year's speaker series was Myths of Public Safety. Myths abound about what public safety is and how it is achieved. These…
We study the effects of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that dramatically increased interior removals of Hispanic…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
In January 2022, the California State Assembly voted in support of a first-of its-kind labor bill, known as the Fast Food Accountability…
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the…
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital…
Why does social policy matter?Through data-driven research, hands-on training, and collaborative public engagement, the Malcolm Wiener…