Hilary Hoynes

About

Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at UC Berkeley

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Economics
• Environmental health
• Demographic economics
• Geography
• Development economics
• Market economy
• Economic growth
• Business

Selected publications

• The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-09-01 · 137 citations

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  The COVID-19 crisis has led to spiking unemployment rates with disproportionate impacts on low-income families. School and child-care center closures have also meant lost free-and reduced-price school meals. Food prices have increased sharply leading to reduced purchasing power for families' limited income. The Families First Coronavirus Act and the CARES Act included robust responses including expansions to unemployment insurance (expansions in eligibility and $600 per week supplement), a one-t…

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• Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2023-08-03 · 78 citations

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  Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological costs. We offer evidence that burdens are a key source and consequence of inequality, resulting in disparate outcomes in people’s access to basic rights. We also detail how these outcomes are patterned by targeting, federalism, bureaucratic pathologies, and the growing use of the private sector and tax system to deliv…

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• Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program

  The Review of Economic Studies · 2023 · 78 citations

  We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 Census and 2001-13 American Community Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's NUMIDENT, we leverage the county-level rollout of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975. We find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five have better outcomes as adults. The treatment-on-the-treated…

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• Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2023-08-03 · 27 citations

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  Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological costs. We offer evidence that burdens are a key source and consequence of inequality, resulting in disparate outcomes in people’s access to basic rights. We also detail how these outcomes are patterned by targeting, federalism, bureaucratic pathologies, and the growing use of the private sector and tax system to deliv…

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• Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2023-05-01 · 23 citations

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  The economic and public health crisis caused by COVID-19 was devastating and disproportionately hurt Blacks and Hispanics and some other groups. Unemployment rates and other measures of material hardship were higher and increased more during the crisis among Blacks and Hispanics than among non-Hispanic Whites. Congress authorized a historic policy response, incorporating both targeted and universal supports, and expanding both the level and duration of benefits. This response yielded the remarka…

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Frequent coauthors

• Marianne Bitler

  279 shared

• Jonah B. Gelbach

  153 shared

• Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

  67 shared

• Nicole Maestas

  36 shared

• Alexander Strand

  United States Social Security Administration

  36 shared

• Nada Eissa

  31 shared

• Erin Todd Bronchetti

  Swarthmore College

  23 shared

• Garret Christensen

  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  20 shared

Labs

• Opportunity LabPI

Awards & honors

• Daniel M. Holland Medal from the National Tax Association
• Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of…

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