Policy Research Areas

Our projects cover a variety of topics and fall broadly into the following research areas:

Education & Workforce: These projects focus on topics related to the improvement of federal workforce and education data offerings, federal student loan policies, and the nation's labor market credentialing system.
Fiscal & Economics: These projects focus on topics related to federal and state economic affairs, such as property tax and development.
Gender: These projects explore policies that differently impact people of different genders, with a particular focus on reproduction.
Institutional: These projects explore the interplay between political institutions and policy.
Social: These projects focus on topics related to issues affecting human welfare such as education, health care access, race and inequality, and poverty.
Sustainability: These projects focus on topics related to development policies that affect the resources and environmental quality available to future generations.
Urban: These projects focus on topics related to metropolitan areas such as crime, governance, transportation, sprawl, and urban economics.
Washington Area: These projects focus on topics directly related to the District of Columbia and the Washington metropolitan area.