#public-policy
5 articles
- The LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act & the Question I'd Rewrite
A 25-minute policy presentation taught me the difference between inviting a room to think and demanding that it agree.
- From Needs Assessment to Recommendation: The Belonging Fund Project
My team designed a fund to help students feel they belonged. Our biggest limitation was that we never spoke to a single student.
- Religiosity vs. GDP: A Regression That Passed Every Check — and a Causal Story It Can't Tell
A clean regression linked religiosity and GDP. That statistical cleanliness is exactly why the causal story needs more caution.
- Precise About Forty, Silent About the Rest
A selection-law discussion post showed me how precisely the law can draw one boundary while staying silent about another.
- MGNREGA: The Regression That Held — and the State Where the Budget Line Goes to Zero
A regression linked MGNREGA labor budgets to women’s paid workdays. Then West Bengal’s frozen funds tested what the chart could honestly say.