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King County proposed two potential evaluations, one focusing on homelessness prevention and one focusing on diversion and rehabilitation of low-level offenders. King County’s Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative (YFHPI) provides flexible funding...

The Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing proposed to evaluate its rapid rehousing program, focusing on single adults without children. The County’s rapid rehousing program aims to quickly move homeless individuals into permanent housing by providing...

Patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) account for 7% of Medicare fee-for-service spending despite making up less than 1% of the Medicare enrollment. For patients with ESRD, home dialysis, as opposed to facility-based dialysis, is often associated with...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major disruption for U.S. students and has led to a severe reduction in college enrollment, especially among low-income and underrepresented minority students. For instance, at community colleges, Black, Hispanic and Native...

We plan to evaluate the causal impact of labor organizing on worker welfare and service quality in the health care sector. Existing observational evidence suggests that unionization leads to increased staff retention and productivity among health care workers...

Income inequality in the US is high and on the rise, and a growing wage gap among workers with different levels of educational attainment has been a major contributor (Goldin and Katz 2008; Autor 2019; Autor, Goldin, and Katz 2020). Sectoral employment...

Around 6% of all children and 10% of Black and poor children are placed into foster care by age 18. They have significantly worse outcomes than their peers in terms of educational achievement, mental health and substance abuse. State agencies provide a host of...

Despite an enormous policy response, opioid prescribing remains well above historical levels and harms from opioids continue to mount. Nearly all states have Prescription Monitoring Programs (PMPs) to facilitate safer prescribing of opioids and other drugs...