hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …

administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …

lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …

Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data … for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209 …

,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …