Policy Briefs
Parent: California Policy Lab
eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77q8k045 | Employment Among LA County Residents Experiencing Homelessness | 612 | 178 | 312 | 66 | 56 |
| 8737p1hb | Are Public Defenders Better at Indigent Defense than Court-Appointed Attorneys? | 235 | 102 | 81 | 32 | 20 |
| 5hk6z9fw | California Nickel Prior Enhancement and Recent Reforms: A Snapshot | 232 | 55 | 70 | 37 | 70 |
| 6504d11d | Does New School Construction Impact Student Test Scores and Attendance? | 171 | 46 | 83 | 23 | 19 |
| 44c5j3qz | Health Conditions Among Unsheltered Adults in the U.S. | 166 | 36 | 66 | 36 | 28 |
| 5b74p87z | Felony Offenses and Sentencing Triads in California | 153 | 65 | 26 | 28 | 34 |
| 13r87402 | Sentence Enhancements in California | 143 | 53 | 58 | 14 | 18 |
| 2ns118tk | Startling Increase in California Auto Loans | 138 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 73 |
| 5cx60639 | Racial and Gender Disparities in Police Stops: What Does the 2021 Racial Identity and Profiling Act Data Tell Us? | 135 | 24 | 32 | 18 | 61 |
| 5n33w048 | Do Time-Limited Subsidy Programs Reduce Homelessness for Single Adults? | 132 | 40 | 47 | 17 | 28 |
| 0s67t6gt | Evaluation of Los Angeles County Measure H-Funded Homelessness Prevention Strategies | 130 | 33 | 51 | 20 | 26 |
| 0n71z0wk | The Effects of California’s Enhanced Drug and Contraband Interdiction Program. Policy Brief | 122 | 30 | 37 | 17 | 38 |
| 6z8931wh | Emailing eligible college students resulted in more than 7,000 students applying for CalFresh benefits | 112 | 31 | 28 | 15 | 38 |
| 7mq3m06m | Reminder postcards and simpler emails encouraged more college students to apply for CalFresh | 111 | 19 | 28 | 18 | 46 |
| 14k852n0 | Introducing the California Credit Dashboard | 106 | 28 | 38 | 14 | 26 |
| 8f5530mj | Serious Mental Illness among People who are Unsheltered in Los Angeles | 100 | 27 | 24 | 13 | 36 |
| 7dr0853v | 2018 Tax Filing Season Honesty and Accuracy Nudge | 99 | 35 | 27 | 20 | 17 |
| 7j7750zd | Providing Early Legal Counsel Reduces Jail Time and Improves Case Outcomes | 93 | 20 | 31 | 18 | 24 |
| 47m9s7qt | Proposition 25’s Predicted Impact in San Francisco and Sonoma Counties | 92 | 36 | 19 | 16 | 21 |
| 0wn9h65x | High Users of San Francisco’s Criminal Justice System | 87 | 26 | 33 | 13 | 15 |
| 90c577b8 | Pandemic Patterns: California is Seeing Fewer Entrances and More Exits | 87 | 8 | 35 | 5 | 39 |
| 34w5v68w | Solid Ground Executive Summary: A Summary of Multi-Year Process Evaluations of Solid Ground, a Family Homelessness Prevention Program | 78 | 12 | 29 | 8 | 29 |
| 5xs4k1ws | Identifying the impacts of job training programs in California | 75 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| 6g18v5xm | How Hospital Discharge Data Can Inform State Homelessness Policy | 75 | 16 | 22 | 19 | 18 |
| 5nn3d9nr | Early Criminal Defense Yields Large Reductions in Pre-Trial Detention | 71 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 24 |
| 18r6m0zp | Developing a Comprehensive Data System to Further Continuous Improvement in California | 62 | 23 | 15 | 10 | 14 |
| 0cn032bg | Racial Disparities in Criminal Record Eligibility in California | 60 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 22 |
| 7t94r2nz | Connecting the Dots: Harnessing Integrated Data to Improve Education in California | 56 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 9 |
| 93t31559 | 766 San Francisco Residents may be Eligible for Referral to CARE Court | 56 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 32 |
| 6fp4d0t2 | 1 in 8 Californians with a Criminal Record is Potentially Eligible for Full Record Clearance | 55 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 11 |
| 8gj2s9mc | Job Postings, Applications, and Wages: Evidence from Homebase | 55 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 8 |
| 7q6900cb | https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Solid-Ground-Year-3-Process-Evaluation.pdf | 52 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 19 |
| 6hj1c63p | The Impacts of the Make-it-Right Program on Recidivism | 50 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 12 |
| 6wz8401x | California Unemployment Insurance Claims During the COVID-19 Pandemic, a Series of Policy Briefs | 46 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 7 |
| 68n6522z | Crime in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic | 45 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 15 |
| 1nr328zx | March 18th Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claims in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 41 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 6 |
| 0cq8b2m8 | High-frequency labor market measures for workers at small businesses | 39 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 11 |
| 4n18h49v | Who benefits from the student loan payment pause and what will happen when it ends? | 37 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
| 1kd8w0m3 | Why Extended UI Benefits were Turned Off Prematurely for Workers in 33 States | 36 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| 2w94452v | Pushed out by paperwork: Why eligible Californians leave CalFresh | 34 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 2qx4d1ks | Measuring the CalEITC Take-up Gap among CalFresh enrollees | 33 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| 4j19q121 | The Stimulus Gap: 2.2 Million Californians Could Miss $5.7 Billion in Federal Stimulus Payments | 32 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 60w0x1h6 | Bail Reform in San Francisco: Pretrial Release and Intensive Supervision Increased After Humphrey | 32 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| 0s20r7p8 | 10 Key Trends from the Unemployment Crisis in California and their Implications for Policy Reform | 31 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| 4nj770ht | California Community College and University of California student participation in CalFresh food benefits | 31 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 5tk9z4xz | Data Point: As Crisis Continues, More Unemployed Californians are Receiving UI Benefits | 30 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
| 2t811577 | Addressing the barriers college students face when accessing CalFresh food benefits | 25 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| 7bc790wm | Unsheltered in Los Angeles: Insights from Street Outreach Service Data | 24 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 5wp5p19x | CalExodus: Are People Leaving California? | 22 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| 9754q55p | Eliminating fees in the Alameda County juvenile justice system meaningfully reduced financial burdens on families | 22 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
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