Our Research
We work with faculty and other partners at UC Berkeley to produce high quality, non-partisan research that examines the most pressing issues for future generations. We support projects that directly align with the main research priorities outlined below. We prioritize research that has the potential to affect policy change and drive important conversations about the future for young adults.
As California grapples with a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, state lawmakers are under immense pressure to balance the budget. This financial strain is...
Funding state-wide education isn’t cheap. But a well-funded early care and P-16 system has both direct benefits to students as well as indirect benefits to society. As we review impacts...
Governor Newsom’s revised K-12 budget could foreshadow future problems for CA schools On May 12, Governor Newsom released an updated budget for 2023-24 fiscal year. The new budget proposal reflects...
Code, publicly-available data, and figures for this post are available on this Github repository. California faces a housing crisis. The severity of this crisis is apparent in a number of...
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...
Assessing Changes in the Ideological Identity of Young Women and Men using the CCES A recent analysis by the Financial Times’ John Burn-Murdoch shows how the political ideology of young...
This working paper examines the relationship between state-level implementation of Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) policies and the voting turnout of young voters (aged 18-24) in United States elections, primarily analyzing...
The social unrest of the 2020 election year was a historic flashpoint in the visibility of police violence. Successive nationally publicized police killings of Black citizens—from the murder of Breona...
CNBC, July 2024 The issues of age and candidate vitality are having an impact on the 2024 election. Lawmakers in the U.S. are relatively old when compared to similar legislative...
