Code, publicly-available data, and figures for this post are available on this Github repository. Significant effort in the social sciences is spent on properly measuring economic well-being. Statistics covering income
With the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, optimism on the economy is the lowest it has been since the 2008 financial crisis. Using cumulative data from the Cooperative
California Sun Podcast, February 2024 The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, part of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, examines the evolving generational dynamics of millennials and
Support for this project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. Summary To better understand the
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. We took a look at unemployment and long-term unemployment by age to see how the economic changes brought on by
Emilio Romero, 23, has mixed feelings about losing his job. It’s a major financial setback, but with two previous hospitalizations for pneumonia, a restaurant was not the safest place for the recent college graduate as the COVID-19 pandemic…
Summary Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and
Support for this project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. Summary One of the primary
Govern for America (GfA) We are collaborating with GfA – a nonprofit that places college graduates into State government positions — to understand how young Americans think about government, and to test new ways to attract recent college graduates to public sector jobs. Over the…
The Great Recession, starting in December 2007, was one of the worst economic contractions in generations. The economy experienced significant increases in the number of people looking for, but unable to find employment. Many researchers have investigated the degree to which recessions…
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