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CODE^SHIFT: A Collaboratory For Data Equity, Community Impact, And Social Healing
No full textCODE^SHIFT is a multidisciplinary “collaboratory” research space that focuses on data justice by humanizing data for storytelling, community impact, and social healing. Its goal is to address social inequalities (especially relating to race, gender, ethnicity, and indigeneity) using data, media, technology, art, and storytelling. Our activities include community-building, curriculum development, and collaborative research projects, especially focused on critical media literacies, arts-based interventions, and digital storytelling. The four main principles that guide our practice and theorizing are: collaboration, purposiveness or intentionality, actionorientation, and equity-mindedness. We see data justice as crucial to every stage: from identifying pressing social needs, to forming partnership and coalition-building, co-designing collective impact interventions, and building capacity for sustainable change. We apply a Trauma-informed, Equity-minded, Asset-based Model (TEAM) that recognizes the transformative power of data and stories for collective healing from intergenerational cultural systemic traumas, including erasures. This model emphasizes trust and transparency, asset-based framing, nonjudgmental listening, agency and voice, and shared decision-making
State Policy & Politics Database (SPPD)
No full textThe State Policy & Politics Database (SPPD) is a compilation of annual data on state policies and politics that are particularly relevant for population health. The SPPD includes several categories of policies, including labor and economic policies (e.g., minimum wage levels, right to work laws), social safety net policies (e.g., earned income tax credits, SNAP), behavior-related policies (e.g., tobacco taxes, opioid prescribing), as well as the political ideology of the states’ government and citizens. Most measures are available annually from 1980 to 2023 or 2024
State Policy & Politics Database (SPPD)
No full textThe State Policy & Politics Database (SPPD) is a compilation of annual data on state policies and politics that are particularly relevant for population health. The SPPD includes several categories of policies, including labor and economic policies (e.g., minimum wage levels, right to work laws), social safety net policies (e.g., earned income tax credits, SNAP), behavior-related policies (e.g., tobacco taxes, opioid prescribing), as well as the political ideology of the states’ government and citizens. Most measures are available annually from 1980 to 2023 or 2024
2024 Lender Center Conversation: Seeking Racial Equity in the Entertainment Industry -- Event Information
No full textA press release for the 2024 Lender Center Conversation: “Seeking Racial Equity in the Entertainment Industry” event
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Collaborations -- Event Information
No full textA brief description of the “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: Public, Private and Philanthropic Collaborations” conference event
Housing Market Responses to Constrained Mobility Rights - Evidence from A School Enrollment Reform for Migrant Children
No full textMobility matches open housing markets. With constrained mobility and partially open housing markets, market responses reflect the constraints. We study this mechanism by examining disparity in access to public schools across socio-economic groups, focusing on properties near primary schools accessible to migrant students under social integration policies in a Chinese megacity. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we uncover complex spatial and market dynamics: while house prices close to ordinary primary schools remained relatively stable, house prices farther away declined markedly. This differential impact suggests the interaction between a potential peer effect and an amenity effect. The rental rates showed little change from the migrant inflow and native flights. The reform also triggered a decrease in second-hand house sales, coupled with increased rental activities. This study highlights the effect of school enrollment policies on urban spatial dynamics, with significant implications for policymakers seeking to promote social integration in megacities
A Capital Idea? The Welfare Effects of Relocating Indonesia’s Government to a New City
No full textMany developing countries are planning to create new capital cities, a place-making policy designed to alleviate congestion and respond to climate change. To evaluate growth and welfare effects, we specify a dynamic quantitative spatial model with public employment, informality, fiscal transfers, and frictions in trade and migration. We calibrate the model with data from Indonesia and conduct policy experiments studying the creation of Nusantara in East Kalimantan. Despite increasing employment in the new capital region, we find that building Nusantara reduces national growth and welfare. Climate change attenuates its negative welfare effects, but only slightly
“Take Eight Bits and Call Me in the Morning” Video Games, Well-Being, and the Psychology of Nostalgia
No full textFor nearly 60 years, video games have arrested the attention of players, inviting us to interact and interface with on-screen content. More than just short-term entertainment experiences, video games are part of a broader cultural milieu—they are the most profitable media entertainment sector (global revenues nearly $400 billion USD in 2023) with more than 3.5 billion players globally (Clement, 2023). Similar to other entertainment media, some video game intellectual properties have transcended generations and, in many cases, grown beyond the medium itself: common cultural touchstones include Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog, along with seemingly endless subcultures of devoted fans of specific games and gaming properties (Jenkins, 2006). Unique from other entertainment media, video games present as “digital time machines” that allow players to directly revisit personally relevant and highly familiar worlds from the past in which those worlds remain unchanged (Robinson & Bowman, 2021; Wulf et al., 2018)
