Volume 26 of Policy Perspectives is now online! Many thanks to the authors and editors whose hard work over the past school year made this possible.

You can read the journal in its entirety here.

Feature Articles

• Assessing the Likely Impacts of Proposed Food Boxes on SNAP Recipients

  By Ahoefa Ananouko
• How One 11-Page Bill Could Yield Billions in Annual Benefits: The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017

  By Haley Dunn
• Legislative Gaps in Addressing Rural Women’s Access to Obstetric Care in the United States: A Case Study of the North Carolina Home Birth Freedom Act

  By Isabella Higgins
• Return on What Investment? The Behavioral Economics of Student Financial Aid

  By McCall Pitcher Hopkin
• Gold Mining and Mercury Pollution in Colombia: Policy Recommendations to Reduce the Tradeoff between Economic Growth and Sustainability

  By Hernando Grueso
• Measuring the Efficiency, Equity, and Success of Philadelphia’s Residential Property Tax Abatement

  By Matthew Pickering
• Information Asymmetry Meets Data Security: The Lemons Market for Smartphone Apps

  By Margaret W. Smith
• Privatization of Social Security Retirement Systems: Lessons and Comparisons from Chile, Argentina, and the United States

  By Elisa Walker

Alumni Interviews

• Interview with Allyson Criner Brown, Associate Director of Teaching for Change
• Interview with Garrett Jackson, Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Housing Opportunities Commission