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UCLA study, which was based on an analysis of the most effective approaches to paid family and medical leave, shows how unpaid leave undermines economic growth.

Researchers also explored the influence of gender and whether playing sports and video games is correlated with driving skills.

Study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law contains first estimates of youth at risk of undergoing the practice health organizations say is harmful.

Economics professor Adriana Lleras-Muney writes about how a welfare experiment from 100 years ago offers a dramatic lesson in what really helps poor children.

The newest research center at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aims to bring together scholars and policymakers to make better decisions on issues of interest to Latinos.

Williams Institute and Los Angeles HIV Law and Policy Project members drive passage of California Senate Bill 239.

Ending the program would have profound implications for the U.S. health care system and the education of the next generation of health care leaders.

University of California President Janet Napolitano said the center will be devoted to research, education and advocacy.

Experts at a Zócalo/UCLA discussion say armed conflict between the United States and Pyongyang isn't inevitable.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

UCLA researchers have launched a project to design policies in countries where corruption and conflict are undercutting natural abundance. The project's first summit is this week at UCLA.

Panelists at UCLA event noted that now is the time for everyone who supports immigration reform to advocate for those who are undocumented.

John Villasenor on why the Australian government’s recent push to force technology companies to break into end-to-end encryption is futile.

Students in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs can get a head start on a public affairs minor by taking the class, now in its second year.

The Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will fill a critical research gap and provide a think tank around political, social and economic issues.

Three urban planning professors note that L.A. has more land, and land value, than development, so a small land tax could raise more money for affordable housing.

Results of UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals.

Minimum parking requirements — rules that are imposed on developers of apartment buildings, among other builders, to provide parking spaces for their tenants — are partly to blame for the crisis in affordable housing in cities like Los Angeles.

UCLA Daniel J.B. Mitchell Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Panelists focused on ways in which California can continue to lead the charge via legislative and regulatory innovations at the state and local level.

In this Q&A about her new book, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández highlights how decades of discriminatory policies gave rise to this dubious distinction.

Report by UCLA researchers finds that community choice aggregators provide a competitive alternative for electricity consumers.

Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.

New state and local policies promoting energy use transparency, public transit funding and sustainable development make researchers are optimistic for improvement.

Children 11 and younger have less developed cognitive skills and should not be help to the same level of culpability.