Our Work

Projects Underway

Assessing the Effects of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on Means-Tested Benefit Use

Assessing the Effects of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on Young Workers

Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave Evaluation

Augmenting Unemployment Insurance Records with Demographic and Geographic Information

Constructing Monthly Residential Histories from Merged Administrative Data

Wage Penalties Affecting Human Services Workers

Publications

Long, Mark C., Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2022. Constructing Monthly Residential Locations of Adults Using Merged State Administrative Data. Population Studies 76:2, 253-272.

Heather D. Hill, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2021. “Parental Employment Around a Birth: Evidence from Washington State.” Report produced for the Washington State Employment Security Department. Available by request.

Mark Long, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2019. How did the Seattle Minimum Wage Affect Poor and Near-Poor Workers? Longitudinal Evidence from New Merged Administrative Data. Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute Paper #20194.

Wage Equity StudyTeam, 2023. “Wage Equity for Non-profit Human Services Workers: A study of work and pay in Seattle and King County.” Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

Working Papers

Pelletier, Elizabeth and Jennifer Romich. 2023. “Supplementing Unemployment Insurance Records with Demographic Data.” Available by request.

Presentations

Callie Freitag, Elizabeth Pelletier, Jennifer Romich, Heather D. Hill, Scott Allard, and Hilary Wething. 2023. “How does raising the minimum wage affect SNAP participation?”Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research. Phoenix, AZ.

Callie Freitag, Elizabeth Pelletier, Jennifer Romich, Heather D. Hill, Scott Allard, and Hilary Wething. 2022. How does raising the minimum wage affect SNAP participation?” Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Washington, DC.

Callie Freitag. 2022. “Disability Determination, Employment Histories, and Age at First SSI Receipt.” Proposal funded by the Social Security Administration Retirement and Disability Research Consortium at the Center for Financial Security. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Della Jenkins, Steven Cook, Maggie Reeves, and Jennifer Romich. 2022. University-Public Partnerships for Data Integration: Strategies for Building Trust, Infrastructure and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Roundtable Discussion. Annual conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Washington, DC.. November 18.

Hilary Wething and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2022. Dynamic Earnings, Stable Benefits? An Examination of How Social Programs Respond to Household Earnings Volatility. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 18.

James Lamar Foster, Delaney Glass, Christopher Salazar, Mahader Tamene, Jose Hernandez, Valentina Staneva, and Jennifer Romich. 2021. Geography, Equity, and the Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance. Data Science for Social Good 2021 final presentations.

Jennifer Romich, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Tess Abrahamson-Richards. 2023. New Data for Examining How a Local Minimum Wage Policy Affects Diverse Young Adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research. Phoenix, AZ. 2023.

Mark Long, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2020. Attaching Demographic and Geographic Data to Unemployment Insurance Records. Presentation at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Population Research Seminar Series.

Tess Abrahamson-Richards, Jennifer Romich, Elizabeth Peletier, Rose James, and Heather Hill. 2023. Patterns of Perinatal Income Instability among American Indian and Alaska Native Working Parents in Washington State. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. March 25. Salt Lake City, UT.

Zhaowen Guo, Ihsan Kahveci, Betelhem Muno, Eliot Stanton, and Jessica Godwin. 2022. Building Households and Families out of Individual Level Administrative Data. UW Data Science for Social Good project summary. eScience Institute. University of Washington. August 17.

Dissertations

Rocha, Anita. 2022. Minimum Wage Increases and Child Support Payments: A Secondhand Anti-Poverty Regime. Doctoral dissertation. University of Washington. May 2022.