111 | Homeschooling, Inequities in Disability Policy, and Improving Child Health Through School
Every year, early-career scholars join Mathematica for a summer to work on independent research related to improving public well-being. As prospective applicants prepare to apply by the Feb. 29 deadline for the 2024 Summer Fellowship program, Mathematica\u2019s On the Evidence podcast spoke with last year\u2019s fellows (Laurin Bixby, Carla Wellborn, and Luis Carlos Carvajal-Osorio) about what is at stake in the questions they\u2019re investigating, why they\u2019re interested in applied research, and what they found difficult and rewarding about applied public policy research. \n\nA full transcript is available at https://mathematica.org/blogs/using-schools-to-improve-child-health-why-black-families-choose-to-homeschool-their-kids-and-what