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’s On the Evidence podcast spoke with last year’s fellows (Laurin Bixby, Carla Wellborn, and Luis Carlos Carvajal-Osorio) about what is at stake in the questions they’re investigating, why they’re interested in applied research, and what they found difficult and rewarding about applied public policy research.

A 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