On the Evidence Podcast

On this episode of On the Evidence, we talk about a federal experiment using home-delivered boxes packed with fruit, vegetables, and other shelf-stable foods selected by registered dieticians to address food insecurity among children in a rural part of the Chickasaw Nation territory in Oklahoma.

For this episode of On the Evidence, we spoke with the principal investigators for the project: Dave Jones, an associate director in the Health Unit at Mathematica, and Dave Frisvold, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa.

On this episode of On the Evidence, April Yanyuan Wu, a researcher at Mathematica, discusses a project that used supervised machine learning to estimate prescription opioid use among applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance.

In a series of episodes produced by Mathematica in support of the APPAM Fall Research Conference, On the Evidence sat down with more than a dozen guests to discuss some of today’s most pressing social challenges and what can be done about them.

Maria Cancian, the president-elect of APPAM and the dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Mathematica’s Matt Stagner, current APPAM president, discuss the need for greater diversity at APPAM and in the public policy research community more broadly.

On the Evidence interviewed Mathematica’s Matt Stagner about his upcoming APPAM presidential address, his work on child welfare, and his reflections on public policy research. This interview is part of a series of episodes produced by Mathematica in support of the APPAM conference in November.

In this episode of On the Evidence, we talk with Jed Herrmann, of Results for America, about the latest edition of the annual Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence.

On this episode of On the Evidence, we talk about a report that looks at the complicated relationships among nonstandard or changing work schedules, the availability of child care for those schedules, and child well-being. Our guests are Angela Rachidi and Russell Sykes, who coauthored the report.

In this episode of On the Evidence, University of Rhode Island's Annette Bourbonniere, Webility Corporation's Jennifer Christian, and Mathematica's Yonatan Ben-Shalom discuss research on workers who miss work because of an injury or illness and how to help them remain in the labor force.

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.

In this episode of On the Evidence, Cindy Hu, a Mathematica data scientist, discusses the prevalence of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in our drinking water, as well as their health implications and ways to address them through public policy.

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Mathematica’s Beth Weigensberg talks about an article she co-authored describing findings from a 2013 needs assessment on the challenges state agencies faced in using their data to inform their programs.

In this episode of On the Evidence, Jeffrey Ballou, Eugene Rich, and Julie Schilz, three primary care experts from Mathematica, explain the latest push by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to change primary care through new payment models.

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, we discuss with Rebecca Neusteter, Policing Program Director at the Vera Institute of Justice, what she has learned about translating, packaging, and sharing the latest research on policing.

In this episode of On the Evidence, we take a look at early efforts to redesign and streamline the daily operations of the city’s workforce system, starting with a cash assistance program for work-ready adults called the Employment, Advancement and Retention Network.

In this episode of On the Evidence, we discuss the one-year anniversary of Boston's Civic Research Agenda with the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, we discuss a major question surrounding health care reform: What do we do about the small share of patients who represent a much larger share of overall health care use and costs?

For this episode of On the Evidence, J.B. Wogan spoke with Anna Opoku-Agyeman and Fanta Traore about the Sadie Collective, a group they helped form to support black women in economics.

On this episode of On the Evidence, J.B. Wogan spoke with Mathematica’s Johanna Lacoe about school suspension research in Philadelphia and what it might mean for the future of school discipline. You can read an edited excerpt of the interview in the following transcript.

On this episode of On the Evidence, J.B. Wogan spoke with Katherine Klosek, director of applied research at the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University, about the roadmap and the state of evidence-based policymaking in cities.

The show will investigate and promote the use of data and evidence to address social challenges through conversations with pioneers in their fields.