Policy Briefs
Parent: California Policy Lab
eScholarship stats: History by Item for March through June, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-06 | 2026-05 | 2026-04 | 2026-03 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77q8k045 | Employment Among LA County Residents Experiencing Homelessness | 298 | 56 | 116 | 77 | 49 |
| 5hk6z9fw | California Nickel Prior Enhancement and Recent Reforms: A Snapshot | 275 | 70 | 62 | 62 | 81 |
| 0s67t6gt | Evaluation of Los Angeles County Measure H-Funded Homelessness Prevention Strategies | 210 | 26 | 65 | 52 | 67 |
| 5n33w048 | Do Time-Limited Subsidy Programs Reduce Homelessness for Single Adults? | 205 | 28 | 78 | 57 | 42 |
| 7mq3m06m | Reminder postcards and simpler emails encouraged more college students to apply for CalFresh | 189 | 46 | 49 | 47 | 47 |
| 0n71z0wk | The Effects of California’s Enhanced Drug and Contraband Interdiction Program. Policy Brief | 187 | 38 | 64 | 40 | 45 |
| 2ns118tk | Startling Increase in California Auto Loans | 176 | 73 | 33 | 42 | 28 |
| 5b74p87z | Felony Offenses and Sentencing Triads in California | 174 | 34 | 47 | 47 | 46 |
| 6z8931wh | Emailing eligible college students resulted in more than 7,000 students applying for CalFresh benefits | 170 | 38 | 66 | 37 | 29 |
| 44c5j3qz | Health Conditions Among Unsheltered Adults in the U.S. | 169 | 28 | 50 | 42 | 49 |
| 7j7750zd | Providing Early Legal Counsel Reduces Jail Time and Improves Case Outcomes | 158 | 24 | 52 | 44 | 38 |
| 5cx60639 | Racial and Gender Disparities in Police Stops: What Does the 2021 Racial Identity and Profiling Act Data Tell Us? | 157 | 61 | 36 | 37 | 23 |
| 7dr0853v | 2018 Tax Filing Season Honesty and Accuracy Nudge | 156 | 17 | 54 | 54 | 31 |
| 14k852n0 | Introducing the California Credit Dashboard | 150 | 26 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
| 47m9s7qt | Proposition 25’s Predicted Impact in San Francisco and Sonoma Counties | 149 | 21 | 58 | 44 | 26 |
| 8737p1hb | Are Public Defenders Better at Indigent Defense than Court-Appointed Attorneys? | 149 | 20 | 45 | 49 | 35 |
| 13r87402 | Sentence Enhancements in California | 145 | 18 | 55 | 43 | 29 |
| 34w5v68w | Solid Ground Executive Summary: A Summary of Multi-Year Process Evaluations of Solid Ground, a Family Homelessness Prevention Program | 142 | 29 | 39 | 35 | 39 |
| 5nn3d9nr | Early Criminal Defense Yields Large Reductions in Pre-Trial Detention | 139 | 24 | 42 | 46 | 27 |
| 93t31559 | 766 San Francisco Residents may be Eligible for Referral to CARE Court | 139 | 32 | 41 | 39 | 27 |
| 0wn9h65x | High Users of San Francisco’s Criminal Justice System | 133 | 15 | 52 | 36 | 30 |
| 7q6900cb | https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Solid-Ground-Year-3-Process-Evaluation.pdf | 133 | 19 | 45 | 31 | 38 |
| 18r6m0zp | Developing a Comprehensive Data System to Further Continuous Improvement in California | 124 | 14 | 49 | 34 | 27 |
| 0cn032bg | Racial Disparities in Criminal Record Eligibility in California | 114 | 22 | 40 | 18 | 34 |
| 6g18v5xm | How Hospital Discharge Data Can Inform State Homelessness Policy | 112 | 18 | 35 | 27 | 32 |
| 6504d11d | Does New School Construction Impact Student Test Scores and Attendance? | 110 | 19 | 38 | 29 | 24 |
| 90c577b8 | Pandemic Patterns: California is Seeing Fewer Entrances and More Exits | 110 | 39 | 34 | 21 | 16 |
| 6fp4d0t2 | 1 in 8 Californians with a Criminal Record is Potentially Eligible for Full Record Clearance | 104 | 11 | 37 | 28 | 28 |
| 7t94r2nz | Connecting the Dots: Harnessing Integrated Data to Improve Education in California | 103 | 9 | 45 | 35 | 14 |
| 8f5530mj | Serious Mental Illness among People who are Unsheltered in Los Angeles | 99 | 36 | 22 | 22 | 19 |
| 5xs4k1ws | Identifying the impacts of job training programs in California | 91 | 18 | 32 | 17 | 24 |
| 6hj1c63p | The Impacts of the Make-it-Right Program on Recidivism | 78 | 12 | 17 | 26 | 23 |
| 60w0x1h6 | Bail Reform in San Francisco: Pretrial Release and Intensive Supervision Increased After Humphrey | 77 | 6 | 23 | 32 | 16 |
| 2qx4d1ks | Measuring the CalEITC Take-up Gap among CalFresh enrollees | 73 | 16 | 25 | 18 | 14 |
| 6wz8401x | California Unemployment Insurance Claims During the COVID-19 Pandemic, a Series of Policy Briefs | 70 | 7 | 29 | 14 | 20 |
| 68n6522z | Crime in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic | 68 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
| 0cq8b2m8 | High-frequency labor market measures for workers at small businesses | 67 | 11 | 21 | 15 | 20 |
| 2w94452v | Pushed out by paperwork: Why eligible Californians leave CalFresh | 60 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 13 |
| 5wp5p19x | CalExodus: Are People Leaving California? | 60 | 3 | 17 | 24 | 16 |
| 8gj2s9mc | Job Postings, Applications, and Wages: Evidence from Homebase | 60 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 17 |
| 4n18h49v | Who benefits from the student loan payment pause and what will happen when it ends? | 58 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 16 |
| 4nj770ht | California Community College and University of California student participation in CalFresh food benefits | 57 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 15 |
| 4j19q121 | The Stimulus Gap: 2.2 Million Californians Could Miss $5.7 Billion in Federal Stimulus Payments | 56 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 21 |
| 1kd8w0m3 | Why Extended UI Benefits were Turned Off Prematurely for Workers in 33 States | 54 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 15 |
| 2t811577 | Addressing the barriers college students face when accessing CalFresh food benefits | 54 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 18 |
| 1nr328zx | March 18th Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claims in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 53 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 15 |
| 9754q55p | Eliminating fees in the Alameda County juvenile justice system meaningfully reduced financial burdens on families | 52 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 18 |
| 0s20r7p8 | 10 Key Trends from the Unemployment Crisis in California and their Implications for Policy Reform | 51 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 11 |
| 7bc790wm | Unsheltered in Los Angeles: Insights from Street Outreach Service Data | 50 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 13 |
| 5tk9z4xz | Data Point: As Crisis Continues, More Unemployed Californians are Receiving UI Benefits | 46 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
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