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The Podcast @ DC puts cutting-edge research in conversation with the bureaucratic realities of government. We get in the weeds on how to put science into action. Topics are as diverse as the...
Using data to make organizations better places to work is an exciting new frontier in both data and social science. But data on its own is n...
On January 14, 2019, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, also called the Evidence Act, was signed into law by the P...
Universal basic income (UBI), also referred to as a guaranteed minimum income, income guarantee, or unconditional cash transfer, involves re...
The 2020 Census is here. With growth in computing power, advances in mathematics, and easy access to large, public databases, how is the U.S...
As The Lab and the rest of the DC government respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, we’re releasing a series of past podcasts from...
Policymakers often hope that transit stations will spur real estate and economic development in surrounding neighborhoods, but the results o...
Childhood is a very important time in a human’s personal and cognitive development. Unfortunately, early exposure to all sorts of traumatic...
Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, requires jurisdictions to conduct a census and survey of persons e...
What's the most important factor in a successful school? When we're renovating or building a new school, what do we care about the most? Mos...
Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality in the United States peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by...
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residen...
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residen...
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residen...
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residen...
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residen...
Over the next six episodes, we’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out wha...
What were some of the early steps DC took to involve data in decisionmaking? How did those efforts eventually spawn The Lab @ DC? On this ep...
As DC grows, the limited availability of affordable housing makes living in the District difficult, or even impossible, for many families. I...
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, launched the Family Options Study, a bold and rigorous assessment of...
It’s common sense that governments want to use their resources effectively by investing in programs and policies that have their intended ef...
Followers of The Lab @ DC may be familiar with one of our first projects, which was a collaboration with DC’s Metropolitan Police Department...
In 2001, the District government instituted its own version of the federal government’s Earned Income Tax Credit, also called the EITC. It's...
On July 20, 2017, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched The Lab @ DC within the Office of the City Administrator. Supported by Arnold Ventures philan...
Deadlines. The word itself probably makes you a little anxious. And when the deadline is something like renewing your eligibility for social...
In February 2018, DC welcomed its 700,000th resident, putting the city’s population at its highest its since the mid-1970’s. But with a grow...
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. An...
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. An...
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. An...
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital tells the tumultuous, four...
If you live in a city experiencing rapid urbanization, you know it's hard to agree on how to inclusively utilize important urban goods. What...
High-quality child care is hard enough to find… let alone pay for it. What can be done to improve the quality, supply, and affordability of...
Principals sit at the nerve center of our public schools. They lay the foundation for teachers so that students can excel. But when principa...
Traffic. We've all been stuck in our fair share. Across the world, policy makers are constantly proposing solutions to improve the efficency...
What does a City Administrator do? And more specifically, what does DC's City Administrator do? In this first-ever, live recoding of The Pod...
Across the United States, police officers are being given a new arsenal of big data tools and with this wealth of information, a promise of...
Where does our garbage go? Why do people litter? What do plastic bags have to do with the Anacostia? This Earth Day, we're pushing beyond th...
With growing tension between civilians and police, how should we prepare officers to serve their communities? We talk with Georgetown Univer...
Nationally, black males are 15% less likely to graduate high school then their white counterparts. That’s a loss of a generation. We talk wi...
The foundation of criminal justice is legislation - the criminal code. And the District’s is more than a 100 years old. We talk with Crimina...
By most measures civic engagement is declining in America. One explanation for this, is that increased economic inequality has eroded our ‘t...
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city...
In the past few years a new way of changing people's behavior has been discovered: Helping them to revise the stories they tell about themse...
Each year over 1400 women experiencing homelessness and hardship in DC will use the housing and support programs of N Street Village. Lab Di...
The U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking developed a strategy for increasing the availability and use of data in order to build ev...
How do we encourage state and local governments and partners to develop and use a portfolio of evidence? What might that portfolio contain?...
Crime and violence have enormous social costs. These costs are disproportionately borne by economically disadvantaged groups. Finding promis...
How does pro- and anti-social behavior spread among individuals and groups? What is the role of social coherence among peers in affecting it...
About our guest: Donald P. Green is J. W. Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Green is the author of fo...
Despite our intentions, why do we so often fail to act in our own best interest? Why do we promise to skip the chocolate cake, only to find...
Elementary school students in the U.S. spend less than 25 percent of their waking hours in school over the course of a year. Coupled with th...