Public Work
Policy Reports
Long-Term Effects of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Connecticut’s Jobs First, MDRC, March 2025, (Mark van Dok Cynthia Miller Hilary Hoynes Jordan Matsudaira).
Tax Credits For Children: Bridging Evidence To Policy—And Policy To Outcomes, TAXVOX, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, October 27, 2025.
Using In-State Employment Data to Evaluate Workforce Programs: A Case Study of the Portland NEWWS Site, MDRC April 2024. ((Mark van Dok, Cynthia Miller, and Hilary Hoynes)
Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources, Consensus Study Report, Committee on National Statistics, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. 2023.
Benefits and Tax Credits, Hilary Hoynes, Robert Joyce and Tom Waters, Chapter contribution to Deaton Review, Feb 2023.
How the Expanded Child Tax Credit Helped California Families, California Policy Lab Report, Sept 23, 2022. Shorter version of report released Oct 26, 2022 - Data Point
Testimony before House Budget Committee, “Examining the Powerful Impact of Investments in Early Childhood for Children, Families, and our Nation’s Economy,” July 20, 2022
House Budget Committee Report on the Hearing
House Budget Committee - roundup on my testimony!
https://twitter.com/HouseBudgetDems/status/1555608502961426439
Economist Letter in Support of Child Tax Credit, Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach, September 14, 2021
Press: Business Insider, CNBC, Marketplace, Fox Business, Yahoo News, New York Times, CNBC
Policies to strengthen our nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach, Contribution to Vision 2020, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, February 2020.
A Roadmap for Reducing Child Poverty Consensus Report, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, February 2019.
Press: NAS press tracker, The Nation, Dem 2020 Debate, New York Times, New York Review of Books
IRP Focus, A Roadmap for Reducing Child Poverty, Institute for Research on Poverty, IRP Focus, Volume 35, Number 2, September 2019. Pieces on Measuring Poverty, Policy Approaches and Accounting for Behavior Effects.
EconoFact policy memos: Coronavirus and Immigrants, Child Poverty, Economic Inequality, Long Run Effects of SNAP, the EITC
The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking: Report of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, September 2017.
Why SNAP Matters, Policy Report, January 2016
Interviews & Lectures
Research on Economic Mobility: Gaps and Opportunities, Keynote NBER Working Group on Economics of Mobility, October 2021.
The Social Safety Net in the US and Short and Long Run Impacts on Health, Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network, State-of-the-Science Webinar, October 2021.
Re-imagining the Social Safety Net and How Food Banks Can Help, Keynote, California Associate of Food Banks Annual Member Meeting, October 2021.
The Evidence for (and evolving policy history of) a child allowance in the US, CRC Summer School 2021: Science-Based Policy Advice, May 2021.
Income Support in the US: Existing Programs and COVID-19 Response, 25th Annual Queen’s University Institute on Social Policy, September 1, 2020.
Income Interventions and Child Health, California’s Vulnerable Children, UC Center Sacramento, February 27, 2020
PBS Newshour, Interviewed for segment on COVID Food Insecurity Crisis, April 30, 2020.
COVID-19 Economic Impact: Human Solutions, Berkeley Conversations, April 10, 2020.
Festival Economia 2019, Trento Italy, May 31, 2019. Universal Basic Income
Institute for Research on Poverty Webinar on National Academy of Sciences Report on Policies to Reduce Child Poverty in 10 Years, May 15, 2019.
Who Belongs Podcast, Hilary Hoynes on Benefits and Limitations of Food Stamps, December 2018
Talk Policy to me Podcast, Hilary Hoynes on Universal Basic Income, November 2018.
PBS Newshour, Interviewed for segment on Public Charge Rule, October 18, 2018.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth, In conversation with Hilary Hoynes, March 8, 2018.
NBER Summer Institute Interview, Welfare Reform and the Social Safety Net, July 2017.
Royal Economic Society Interview, Long Run Effects of Food Stamps. April 2017.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, The Region, Interview with Hilary Hoynes, June 1 2017.
Income support for families with children: A comparison of neighbors. Keynote Speaker, Canadian Women Economists Network, Antigonish NS June 2, 2017.
Long Run Effects of the Social Safety Net, Keynote Speaker, Canadian Labour Economics Forum, Antigonish NS, June 1, 2017.
The Social Safety Net as an Investment, Economic Journal Lecture, Royal Economic Society, Bristol UK, April 2017. see video here
Short take on Long Run Effects of the Food Stamp Program, RES Presents, Royal Economic Society, April 2017. see video here.
Why SNAP Matters,” Keynote Speaker, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Boston, July 2016.
Acceptance speech, 2014 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, see video here.
Conference on the 20th anniversary of welfare reform, Brookings, Sept 22 2016 (co-organized by Hoynes). See conference summary in Fast Focus.
The Hamilton Project, Forum on Strengthening the Safety Net to Mitigate the Effect of Future Recessions, see video here.
Up from Poverty: Funding Solutions that Work, UCTV, see video here.
Why SNAP Matters, White House Conversation on Child Hunger, January 28, 2016, See video here.
Why SNAP Matters: Effects on poverty, food insecurity and health. Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment, January 21, 2016., See video here.
The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Families in Strong and Weak Labor Markets, Association lecture, Southern Economic Association, November 2015.
The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Income Inequality and Family Health and Well-Being, The Welfare State and the Fight Against Inequality. Columbia University, November 2015.
Poverty and Inequality: How U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs can Help, UC Berkeley Food Access and Food Security Summit.October 2015.
The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Income Inequality and Family Health and Well-being, Workshop on Health and the Labour Market, Aarhus University, June 2015,
SNAP: Overview and relationship to the labor market and the U.S. safety net, The Future of SNAP, UC Berkeley, May 2015.
Poverty, Inequality and Trends in the Labor Market, Step Up Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University, May 2015.
Poverty, the Social Safety Net and the Great Recession, Grossman Lecture, Colby College, February 2015
Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, January 2015, for video of acceptance speech look here
The Past, Present and Future of the Food Stamp Program, Discover CAL, San Francisco, October 2014.
Rodolfo Debenedetti Lecture, Bocconi University, Milan, October 2014
The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Families in Strong and Weak Labor Markets, Keynote, IZA/ IFAU Conference on Empirical Policy Evaluation, Uppsala Sweden, October 2014.
Health Benefits of the Non-Health Safety Net, Keynote, Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics, May 2013.
Makers and Takers, An Economic Perspective, CAL Day, April 2013.
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Health, UC in Sacramento, April 2013.
Poverty and the Safety Net After the Great Recession, Deep Issues of the 2012 Elections: Equality, Liberty and Democracy, Cornell University, November 2012.
Poverty: Facts, Causes and Consequences, Joe Tiao Lecture, Kansas State University, 2012
Why Poverty Research Matters, Inaugural Event, Center for Poverty Research, UC Davis, November 2011.
Keynote speaker, Linkages Fall Convening, Sacramento California, September 2010.
Keynote speaker, California Symposium on Poverty, California Welfare Directors Association, Sacramento California, October 2009.
Tax Policy for Low-Income Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit, Tax Policy in the Obama Era, UCLA Law School, January 2009.
Effective Anti-poverty Programs in the U.S., SIEPR Policy Forum on Reducing Global Poverty, Stanford University, May 2008.
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Presentation to President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, New Orleans, March 2005.
Selected Webcasts
Berkeley Food Institute - Webinar on H.R. 1 and Impacts on CalFresh, 3/18/26
Cash Assistance for Children: Research Roundup and Policy Future, October 21, 2025.
The EITC at 50: Panel at Brookings Institution, June 10, 2025
Stone Center on Wealth and Inequality, University of British Columbia
Distinguished Speaker for Center Inaugural Event
Date: October 24, 2024
Goldman School Annual Conference and Alumni Event
Morning Keynote with Hilary Hoynes, “Child Poverty: Where have we been and how can we do better?”
Date: September 13, 2024, UC Berkeley
Opportunity Lab Event on Why SNAP Matters
Date: November 30, 2023, UC Berkeley
Prof Hoynes delivers Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley
Date: November 14, 2022, Duration: 1:25
Dr. Hoynes Testifies at House Budget Committee on Investments in Children
Date: July 20, 2022, Duration: 2:23
Center for Taxpayer Rights: Social Programs Through the Tax Code
Date: September 27, 2021, Duration: 1:30
EfIP - Short-Run Priorities for the New Administration
Panel discussion hosted by Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
Date: December 4, 2020, Duration: 1:29
Policy Impacts Inaugural Conference
Date: August 12, 2021, Duration: 4:00
The Social Safety Net as an Investment - Goldman Stories on UCTV
Date: November 11, 2020, Duration: 7 minutes
Covid-19 Crisis, the Social Safety Net and Who is Being Left Behind
Date: August 14, 2020, Duration: 20 minutes
New Thinking in a Pandemic | Dean Ann Harrison & Prof. Hilary Hoynes
Hilary Hoynes interviewed by Haas Dean Ann Harrison, Sponsored by Haas Business School.
Date: September 3, 2020 Duration: 60 minutes
Re-Evaluating the US Safety New During and After COVID-19
Hilary Hoynes, Damon Jones, Jesse Rothstein, in conversation with Lori Ann Ospina, Sponsored by the Berkeley Opportunity Lab.
Date: July 1, 2020 Duration: 60 minutes
Berkeley Conversations - COVID-19: Economic Impact, Human Solutions
Henry E Brady, Ellora Derenoncourt, Hilary Hoynes, Jesse Rothstein, Gabriel Zucman
Date: April 10, 2020 Duration: 60 minutes
Universal Basic Income - Inaugural Alan Kreuger Lecture at Festival Economia
Hilary Hoynes, Trento Italy May 30, 2019
Weighing the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Universal Basic Income
Kimberly Clausing and Hilary Hoynes, Date: November 9, 2018
Up from Poverty: Funding Solutions That Work
Hilary Hoynes, Rucker Johnson, Henry E. Brady
Date: May 7, 2016 Duration: 59 minutes
The 20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform: Work and Poverty
Hilary Hoynes, Rucker Johnson, Henry E. Brady
Date: May 7, 2016 Duration: 59 minutes
A White House Conversation on Child Hunger in America
Hilary Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Adam Drewnowski, Hilary Seligman, Parke Wilde
Event: A White House Conversation on Child Hunger in America
Date: January 27, 2016 Duration: 241 minutes
Hilary Hoynes on food stamps in the US
Hilary Hoynes
Event: The Role of SNAP in the US Social Safety Net
Date: January 21, 2016 Duration: 22 minutes