In the last decade, one of the most substantial changes to firearm policy is the widespread adoption of permitless concealed carry laws. Since 2015, more than 20 states have adopted a permitless carr...

Older adult opioid overdose deaths have increased over the past two decades in the United States. Methadone, one of three medications approved for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, was not covered....

Governments worldwide are increasingly applying management principles to policing, including performance management systems and financial incentives. We study whether eligibility for performance-base...

Join our host, Seth Gershenson, as he talks to Dr. Michael LaForest-Tucker of George Washington University about his research on a crime-deterrence intervention for parolees in New York.

Our host Seth Gershenson speaks to his co-author David Blazar of the University of Maryland about their analysis of Maryland's Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher program: The Teacher Academy of Maryland.

This study examines the impact of residential water-efficiency standards on household water consumption, utilizing billing data from California. I examine both the short- and long-term impacts of the...

Recruiting teachers via “grow-your-own” (GYO) programs is a popular, yet rarely evaluated, strategy for addressing local workforce shortages and ensuring that incoming teachers resemble, understand, ...

Can reducing administrative burdens increase the take-up of social benefits? This meta-analysis reviews 51 field experimental studies reporting 187 treatment effect sizes. Using the administrative bu...

The United States spends more than $4 trillion per year on health care, largely conducted by private providers and reimbursed by insurers. A major concern in this system is overbilling and fraud by h...

Our host, Seth Gershenson, speaks to Pierre Koning and Carlos Riumalló-Herl, recipients of the 2025 Vernon Memorial Award, about their article “Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance...

The broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) policy allows states to bypass federal gross income and asset tests for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) eligibility. Policymakers often...

In 2015, Michigan increased its Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding and changed its funding formula to reimburse programs based on student progression through program curricula. Although thi...

States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating employer provision of paid sick leave (PSL). However, contemporary political polarization make....

Join our Host Seth Gershenson as he speaks to Dr. Chris Herbst, Professor of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, about an experimental evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program...

We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%.....

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal in all states. We estimate the effect of this landmark ruling on the mortgage demand of same-sex couples. Usi...

Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, next to nothing is known about their effects on firearm-relat...

Many are concerned about the large decline in K–12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic....

Researchers and policymakers assert competing behavioral models of polluters. One model portrays polluters as best approximated by the perfectly informed, rational actor from economics textbooks. Ano...

Current U.S. law mandates notification of substance-affected infants to state child welfare systems (CWS) for the purpose of assessment and service connections. Yet, CWS appears to identify a small s...