"The single best way to avoid... selection problems and determine the causal impact of a policy or program is through a randomized control trial. While such experiments can be expensive and are often logistically or politically difficult, they have...
ANN ARBOR—A statewide survey of local officials shows that a majority are very confident in their jurisdiction's ability to administer accurate elections, however, those in Michigan's largest cities and townships—which hold nearly half the...
Anita Ravishankar, a joint-PhD candidate in political science and public policy, has been awarded a Rackham Grant in Public Scholarship to support research measuring the gap in trust between civilians and the police.Grants in Public Scholarship are...
In "Pinpointing racial discrimination by government officials," Justin Wolfers' October 6 article for The New York Times "Upshot," Wolfers highlights soon-to-be published research that finds local government officials in the U.S. are less responsive...
Dear Friends,Over the last three months, I’ve been reaching out to many of the terrific alumni and friends of this great school. For those I haven’t yet met, and to my distinguished colleagues at policy schools and public administration programs...
Migrant remittances--or the money migrants send to friends and family in their countries of origin--make up one of the largest international financial flows to developing countries, says Dean Yang. Yet, we are still learning how different policies...
University of Michigan faculty Theodore Iwashyna (Internal Medicine) and Anne Sales (Learning Health Sciences) were awarded a $3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health for their proposal to create a postdoctoral training program for...
During a single week in late May, more than 4,000 bike riders took to the streets of Detroit as the first users of MoGo, the city’s new bike share program.
By now, the bright red/orange bikes are a frequent sight throughout the city, where locals...
Every year, refugees to southeast Michigan contribute up to $295 million to the region's economy, according to a new study led by Global Detroit and researchers at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy.The economic contributions...
Nana Asare (MPP '18) is submitting this field report from his summer 2017 internship at The Ihangane Project (TIP), Ruli, Rwanda, where he worked as a Global Impact Fellow.Through UM’s William Davidson Institute, I accepted a position as a Global...
Overall, the fiscal health of Michigan's local governments appears to have improved slightly since last year, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.
Across the state, 35 percent of the local government leaders surveyed...
Please join us in congratulating Betsey Stevenson, recently elected to serve as a member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association. Stevenson will serve with other newly elected officers, including president-elect Ben Bernanke...
The Rumsfeld Foundation awarded Omair Khan (MPP ’18) one of just 20 graduate fellowships this year, making Khan the first Ford School student to win the fellowship—and the first Rumsfeld Fellow from the University of Michigan.
Since 2008, the...
So Jung Kim (BA '18) submitted this field report from her internship with U.S. Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47).218 out of 435. In the classroom, I was taught that House action requires a simple majority. However, the reality behind the lower...
Janet Weiss has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). NAPA is an independent, nonprofit, non-partisan organization that analyzes management challenges--through studies, advisory services, and technical...
Professor Susan Dynarski has been named a recipient of the Spencer Foundation Award by the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) for her noteworthy contributions through research and analysis in the field of education policy...
“Massive protests recently broke out in Guatemala as the nation teetered on the edge of a major political crisis,” writes John Ciorciari in The Conversation. “Guatemalans took to the streets to decry President Jimmy Morales, who in August attempted...
Jackson Voss (MPP '18) submitted this field report from his internship at The Clinton Foundation in New York City.This past summer, I was fortunate enough to work as an intern at the Clinton Foundation in New York City. Contrary to what its name...
Will Feuer (BA '19) submitted this field report from his internship with Southeast Asia Globe in Cambodia.Four hours outside of Phnom Penh the bus breaks down. It’s roughly midnight, and it’s raining, but as I stumble outside, calling a taxi and...
This month, The Detroit News honors Kary L. Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan and a visiting lecturer at the Ford School, and Ford School alum Mark Wallace (MPP ’04), executive director of the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, as...
Sanford Weill, former CEO of Citigroup and a philanthropist who has made game-changing contributions to the Ford School, is recognized by Forbes in the magazine’s centennial celebration of the 100 greatest living business minds. In the feature,...
Member institutions of the Big Ten Conference are partnering on a voting challenge to spur civic engagement and encourage more students across the nation to head to the polls on Election Day.The Big Ten Voting Challenge is a nonpartisan initiative...
The 2017 Behavioral Finance Symposium, held September 14-15 at the University of Michigan, brought together prominent scholars, policymakers, and practitioners for two days of dialogue about ways to apply insights from the behavioral sciences, which...
Lina Grant (MPP/REES MA'17) submitted this field report from her summer 2017 internship at California’s Department of Finance, in the Health and Human Services unit in Sacramento. This summer, I interned for the Health and Human Services (HHS) unit...
Fandi Achmad (MPP '18) submitted this field report from his summer 2017 internship at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Working for the World Trade Organization (WTO) on international trade has always been a dream of mine since deciding...
Eli Johns (MPP/JD '17) submitted this field report from his summer 2017 internship at The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka.The Asia Foundation is an international development organization that operates across eighteen Asian countries. The Foundation’s...
In "Hurricanes drive immigration to the U.S.," published in The Conversation, Dean Yang and Parag Mahajan describe findings from their recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, "Taken by storm: Hurricanes, migrant networks,...
