Faculty Research Activities

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Robert Axelrod - international security, formal models, complex adaptive systems

Rebecca M. Blank - interaction among the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families

John R. Chamberlin - evaluation of legislative redistricting, social choice theory, ethics and public policy, role of community organizations in policy-making

David K. Cohen - K-12 educational reform and policy

Michael D. Cohen - effective use of computers in organizations, how organizations learn from their experience, effective design of organizations

Mary E. Corcoran - effects of gender and race discrimination on economic status and earnings and on welfare and employment policies

Sandra K. Danziger - the effects of public programs and policies on the well being of disadvantaged families and children, poverty policy and social service programs, survey research and qualitative research methods.

Sheldon H. Danziger - welfare reform; the effects of economic, demographic, and public policy changes on trends in poverty and inequality

Alan V. Deardorff - international trade, Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, theoretical work in international trade and international finance

John E. DiNardo - labor unions and the effect of labor market institutions on inequality, labor economics, econometrics

Kathryn M. Dominguez - international financial markets, macroeconomics, foreign exchange rate behavior

Elisabeth R. Gerber - policy consequences of electoral laws and other political institutions

Edie N. Goldenberg - bureaucracy and the role of the mass media in the political system

Richard L. Hall - participation and representation in Congress, interest groups in energy and environmental policy-making

James A. Levinsohn - econometric analysis in international trade and industrial organizations, trade models for the automobile industry

Ann C. Lin - social welfare policy and its implementation, crime and rehabilitation, immigrant assimilation into politics, race and ethnicity

Barry Rabe - the capacity for cooperative implementation of waste facility siting and waste management agreements, the ramifications of regulatory devolution in Canada and the United States, and subnational governmental capacity to develop policies to address global warming

Robert F. Schoeni - economics and demography of aging, labor economics, welfare reform, and immigration

Kristin Seefeldt - welfare and anti-poverty programs; employment and training programs; family and family structure issues

Carl P. Simon - mathematical models that involve natural dynamics or motion over time, how political office holders manipulate economic parameters to achieve their goals

Robert M. Stern - multilateral trade agreements and the economic effects of regional trading arrangements, the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade

Katherine Terrell - labor economics and its applications in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe

David E. Thacher - how public agencies cope with fragmentation effectively and how they manage conflicting values

Maris A. Vinovskis - education policy, history of policy-making

Susan E. Waltz - contribution of small states to the political process of creating international human rights standards

Marina v.N. Whitman - international trade and investment, changing relationships between firms and their constituencies, cross-national comparisons of labor allocation


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