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Poverty and inequality. Trade and economic development. Health and human security. Energy and the environment. Alongside their critical work as teachers and mentors, Ford School faculty members are nationally and internationally recognized experts in vitally important policy areas. And they're deeply engaged in the world of practice. They include senior government advisors, current and former members of the Council of Economic Advisers, leaders of international nonprofits, and more. Some are visiting policymakers who have worked in the field for years.
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Our faculty are enthusiastic teachers and mentors who prize the school's close-knit, collaborative community.
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Social policy
Ford School’s Katherine Michelmore Senate testimony - “Assessing 25 years of the Child Tax Credit”
Ford School Associate Professor Katherine Michelmore testified before the United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight,...
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Education policy
Kevin Stange
Associate professor of public policy
Stange returns to the Ford School after a year-long leave with the U.S. Department of Education. He is an expert in college affordability, enrollment, and persistence.
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Diplomacy and foreign affairs
Labor economist Betsey Stevenson is frequently sought after for her economic analysis and commentary. In the past two years alone, Stevenson has been asked to testify seven times before Congress, the executive, and state legislatures on labor market recovery during COVID, child care, small business growth, and unemployment. She won U-M's 2022 Presidential Award for Public Engagement for her demonstrated commitment to public service, contributions to society through national and state leadership, and efforts to address the challenges communities face every day.
Macroeconomics
Kathryn Dominguez
Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics
Kathryn Dominguez advises national and international bodies, including the Economic Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Advisory Scientific Committee for the European Systemic Risk Board, and the Panel of Economic Advisors at the Congressional Budget Office. As an advisor, she provides insights from her own research, reviews economic forecasts, and enhances agency analysis of the economy.
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Restrictive policies at the state level remain a clear and present danger to the health and social welfare of women and families in the United States. These policies pose serious risks to maternal and infant health by denying or delaying evidenced-based medical care and are predicted to increase maternal deaths, especially among African Americans.”
— Lantz's op-ed in The Milbank Quarterly, November 2022.
Paula Lantz
Lantz is the James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, and Professor of Public Policy and Health Management & Policy.
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Catherine Hausman
Associate professor of public policy
Catherine Hausman focuses her research on environmental and energy economics. She recently sat down with Daniel Raimi (Resources Radio) to discuss findings from her recent paper "Inequality, information failures, and air pollution," which suggests “information failures” disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color, who are more likely to already live near sources of pollution. You can find the Economics of Environmental Justice podcast on her profile.
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Hopefully, what this will help do is ease the burden on families and also help them to access the kind of high-quality care that they want. What these public investments can really do is address these market failures in which early educators aren’t getting the wages that they enjoy. It really takes public investment to be able to pay early educators fairly and to offer them a living wage."
— Detroit Free Press, January 2023.
Christina Weiland, Associate Professor of Education & Public Policy
Dr. Weiland’s research focuses on the effects of early childhood interventions and public policies on children’s development, especially on children from families with low incomes. She is particularly interested in the active ingredients that drive children’s gains in successful, at-scale public preschool programs. Weiland is a faculty co-lead for the Education Policy Initiative.
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Research insights
Are the kids alright? Natasha Pilkauskas calls for looking at family structure to make better policy
Family and household structures are complex, but Ford School professor Natasha Pilkauskas thinks their nuance is rarely considered with when it comes...
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