The Podcast @ DC
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The Podcast @ DC
The Podcast @ DC puts cutting-edge research in conversation with the bureaucratic realities of government. We get in the weeds on how to put science into action. Topics are as diverse as the challenges our city government tackles. The show is hosted by The Lab @ DC in the Office of the City Admini...
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The Art and Science of Measuring Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Harassment Initiatives
Using data to make organizations better places to work is an exciting new frontier in both data and social science. But data on its own is not automat...
The Federal Evidence Act: What Local Government Can Learn
On January 14, 2019, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, also called the Evidence Act, was signed into law by the President....
No Strings Attached: The Effects of UBI in the U.S.
Universal basic income (UBI), also referred to as a guaranteed minimum income, income guarantee, or unconditional cash transfer, involves regularly gi...
Protecting the Confidentiality of the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census is here. With growth in computing power, advances in mathematics, and easy access to large, public databases, how is the U.S. Census B...
What's trust got to do with it? - From the archives
As The Lab and the rest of the DC government respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, we’re releasing a series of past podcasts from our archi...
Aligning the stars for transit-oriented development
Policymakers often hope that transit stations will spur real estate and economic development in surrounding neighborhoods, but the results of empirica...
"It made me feel like I had someone to talk to"
Childhood is a very important time in a human’s personal and cognitive development. Unfortunately, early exposure to all sorts of traumatic events, in...
Collecting Homelessness Information that Answers Local Questions
Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, requires jurisdictions to conduct a census and survey of persons experiencin...
Modern Schools for a Modern World
What's the most important factor in a successful school? When we're renovating or building a new school, what do we care about the most? Most educator...
Money or Warmth, a Heated Choice
Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality in the United States peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #6 Repeat
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residents. Each e...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #5 Decide
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residents. Each e...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #4 Test
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residents. Each e...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #3 Do Something
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residents. Each e...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #2 Design
We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works for District residents. Each e...
The Scientific Approach @ DC: Step #1 Listen
Over the next six episodes, we’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works fo...
Data and the Decisionmaker
What were some of the early steps DC took to involve data in decisionmaking? How did those efforts eventually spawn The Lab @ DC?
On thi...
Why People Move: Residential Stability in DC
As DC grows, the limited availability of affordable housing makes living in the District difficult, or even impossible, for many families. In response...
Routes to Roofs: Housing Interventions to Combat Family Homelessness
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, launched the Family Options Study, a bold and rigorous assessment of the impact...
Evening the (Propensity) Score
It’s common sense that governments want to use their resources effectively by investing in programs and policies that have their intended effects. But...
"To know your future, you must understand your past"
Followers of The Lab @ DC may be familiar with one of our first projects, which was a collaboration with DC’s Metropolitan Police Department — MPD for...
Putting Money Back in Washingtonians' Pockets
In 2001, the District government instituted its own version of the federal government’s Earned Income Tax Credit, also called the EITC. It's intended...
The Lab @ DC is Turning Two!
On July 20, 2017, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched The Lab @ DC within the Office of the City Administrator. Supported by Arnold Ventures philanthropy, Th...
Don't Miss the Deadline
Deadlines. The word itself probably makes you a little anxious. And when the deadline is something like renewing your eligibility for social assistanc...
We're back and taking stock of DC's housing stock
In February 2018, DC welcomed its 700,000th resident, putting the city’s population at its highest its since the mid-1970’s. But with a growing popula...
Are you paying attention?
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. And while we...
To the moon! ...and Mars
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. And while we...
A podcast to remember
Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in San Francisco. And while we...
Chocolate City Live
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital tells the tumultuous, four-century s...
Opportunity of the Commons
If you live in a city experiencing rapid urbanization, you know it's hard to agree on how to inclusively utilize important urban goods. What practical...
The First Thousand Days
High-quality child care is hard enough to find… let alone pay for it. What can be done to improve the quality, supply, and affordability of this care?...
Job of a Superperson
Principals sit at the nerve center of our public schools. They lay the foundation for teachers so that students can excel. But when principals leave,...
Test Driving Transportation Networks
Traffic. We've all been stuck in our fair share. Across the world, policy makers are constantly proposing solutions to improve the efficency of our ro...
The Life of a City Administrator
What does a City Administrator do? And more specifically, what does DC's City Administrator do? In this first-ever, live recoding of The Podcast @ DC,...
New Eyes on the Street: Policing in the age of big data
Across the United States, police officers are being given a new arsenal of big data tools and with this wealth of information, a promise of smarter an...
One City's Trash...
Where does our garbage go? Why do people litter? What do plastic bags have to do with the Anacostia? This Earth Day, we're pushing beyond the recyclin...
Policing For Tomorrow
With growing tension between civilians and police, how should we prepare officers to serve their communities? We talk with Georgetown University and t...
Practicing Restorative Justice
Nationally, black males are 15% less likely to graduate high school then their white counterparts. That’s a loss of a generation. We talk with Princip...
Cure for the Common Scold
The foundation of criminal justice is legislation - the criminal code. And the District’s is more than a 100 years old. We talk with Criminal Code Ref...
Benoy Jacob - What's trust got to do with it?
By most measures civic engagement is declining in America. One explanation for this, is that increased economic inequality has eroded our ‘trust in ot...