After the election of President Donald Trump, many writers have sought to understand how his campaign promises will translate into policy. One such exploration, "Wandering foreign policy leaves world on alert," by Claudia Trevisan from the Brazilian...
For more than two decades, the Ford School has hosted an annual student-led fundraising effort that spans both semesters and raises money for a nonprofit nominated and selected by students. The initiative is headed by members of the Charity Auction...
Luke Shaefer's article, "How should we define “low-wage” work? An analysis using the Current Population Survey," was published in the Monthly Labor Review, the flagship journal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in October...
A paper by Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu (University of Michigan), and Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University), "Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World's Poorest Countries?" is forthcoming in the American Journal of Medical...
An NBER working paper by Brian Jacob, "When Evidence is Not Enough: Findings from a Randomized Evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction," is forthcoming in Labour Economics.
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This paper reports the results of an experimental...
When Texas' state legislature passed bills allowing state universities to set their own tuition, there were concerns that low-income students would find higher education in the state less accessible.
A December 29 article by the Houston...
In "Trump moves quickly in bid to revamp America's trade policy," the LA Times quotes Alan Deardorff, whose work is focused on international trade and the effects of trade deals. The article, published on January 23, examines the implications of...
Marina Whitman is featured in AP auto writer Dee-Ann Durbin’s January 24 article, “How a Trump tariff could sideswipe U.S. auto industry.” Durbin reports President Trump is considering a tax on Mexican-made cars to pressure U.S. automakers to keep...
Bloomberg View columnists, including Betsey Stevenson, issued an article on “17 metrics to watch in the Trump era” on January 20. Columnists each submitted benchmarks to watch for a sense of President Trump's performance.
“His success, he...
For those interested in global development and development economics, Experimental Conversations, a volume by Timothy Ogden, features an interview with Dean Yang (Chapter 12). The book is a collection of interviews conducted by Ogden with...
"Productivity in Higher Education," a forthcoming volume co-edited by Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University) and Kevin Stange, will include research by a number of Ford School faculty members including including Stange, Paul Courant, and Brian...
The Ford School is home to six Paul D. Coverdell Fellows this academic year. The Coverdell program supports returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs) as they pursue their education at graduate schools around the country. In addition to receiving...
Calling all alumni working in government, consulting, nonprofits, and other policy shops: consider dropping by the Ford School on your next trip to Ann Arbor to meet with students as part of our Alumni-in-Residence program.
Alumni-in-Residence...
John Ciorciari and Anne Heindel (Documentation Center of Cambodia) have a forthcoming article, "Victim Testimony in International and Hybrid Criminal Courts: Narrative Opportunities, Challenges, and Fair Trial Demands," to be published by the...
A paper by Paul Courant and Sarah Turner (University of Virginia), "Faculty Deployment in Research Universities," will be included in the forthcoming book of conference proceedings, "Productivity in Higher Education," edited by Kevin Stange and...
Poverty Solutions, a new initiative at the University of Michigan to prevent and alleviate poverty, recognized its first round of grant recipients today.
Read the University Record story, by Kristen Kerecman, "U-M announces new investments in...
Natasha Pilkauskas, Colin Campbell (East Carolina University) and Christopher Wimer (Stanford University) have a forthcoming paper, "Giving Unto Others: Private Financial Transfers and Material Hardship Among Families with Children," that will be...
William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, Heather Gatney, and Stephanie Chardoul are co-authors of a forthcoming article, "Preparing a Culturally Appropriate Translation of a Survey Questionnaire," for SAGE Research Methods Case Health.
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In 1996...
A discussion paper by Daniel Raimi and Richard G. Newell on "US State and Local Oil and Gas Revenues" was published in November 2016 by Resources for the Future.
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US state and local governments generate revenues from oil and gas...
An article by William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, and Smily Smith-Greenaway, "Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior," is forthcoming in Demography.
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Emotional influences on fertility behaviors are an understudied topic that may offer...
An article by John Z. Ayanian, Gabriel M. Ehrlich, Donald R. Grimes and Helen Levy titled, "Economic Effects of Medicaid Expansion in Michigan" was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on January 4, 2017.
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Under the...
An article co-authored by Armani Hawes, William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire, "Ethnicity and Psychiatric Disorders," was published in the Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health on June 16, 2016.
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Psychiatric disorders are one of the...
William Axinn co-authored a study, "Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys," published in Psychological Medicine on August 3, 2016.
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Although mental disorders are...
An article by Dean Yang, Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg and Dan Silverman, "Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices," was published in The Economic Journal on April 25, 2016.
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We implement an artefactual...
An article co-authored by Paula Lantz titled, "Pay for Success and population health: Early results from eleven projects reveal challenges and promise," was published in November 2016 in Health Affairs.
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Pay for Success (PFS) is a...
A new article by Jeffrey Smith and Eleanor Wiske Dillion (Arizona State University), "Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality," was published in the Journal of Labor Economics on October 24, 2016.
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We...
An article by Kevin Stange and Rodney Andrews (University of Texas at Dallas), "Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas," was published as an NBER (National Bureau of Economic...
