Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers were interviewed by NPR’s Planet Money about the implications of inflation on parenting. In the March 17 program, they talk about the rising cost of parenting through the lens of the tooth fairy.
According to...
An article published by The Detroit News on March 16, titled “Trump’s budget plan hurts Michigan, Great Lakes cleanup” discusses President Trump’s budget blueprint, which was revealed earlier this month.
The budget plan proposes to eliminate a...
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the National Geographic Society have created an interactive online tool to showcase the former president and Michigan congressman’s legacy.
The tool, which follows a collaboration between the two...
An MLive article published on March 15, “University of Michigan professors discuss Trump’s fuel economy review,” discusses President Trump’s plan to challenge the current Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) emissions targets that were central to...
A team of four researchers, including Susan Dynarski, published a working paper on income-contingent loan (ICL) systems this month for the Centre for Global Higher Education: “Getting student financing right in the US: Lessons from Australia and...
Quotes from Professor Emeritus John Chamberlin were featured heavily in the March 13 MLive article, "For Michigan lawmakers, conflicts of interest go self-policed and undisclosed," by Emily Lawler. The article examines examples of state legislators...
An op-ed by CLOSUP program manager, Tom Ivacko (MPP '93), was published by the Detroit Free Press on March 11. In "Fixing EM law should be legislators' top priority," Ivacko makes the case that Michigan's laws regarding the appointment of emergency...
In rankings originally published in March 2016, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan is recognized in the top ten of America’s “public affairs” programs.
According to the re-released U.S. News and World...
Imagine a collective funding force that transforms your monthly donation of $5 into a $1,000 gift for different organizations and causes.That’s exactly what Sarah Magnelia (MPP ’18) and five of her friends set out to create when they launched the...
Melvyn Levitsky was featured in an article published in U.S. News and World Report today titled, "Cooperation with Russia in Syria Off the Table for Trump Team." The article focuses on the national security team’s decision not to consider any...
Susan Dynarski’s recent article, "A fumble on a key FAFSA tool, and a failure to communicate," was published by The New York Times earlier today. The piece takes a critical look at the IRS shutdown of the FAFSA's data retrieval tool earlier this...
In "State Commission: Consider abolishing Board of Education," Ted Roefels of Bridge Magazine quotes Brian Jacob, whose research focuses on improving educational achievement and outcomes.The article, published on March 9, covers a forthcoming report...
A recent article published in Science magazine says that the best response to some cyberattacks may be to ignore them. The article points to new research conducted by Robert Axelrod and colleagues, which uses game theory to explore how we should...
The University of Michigan has been ranked fourth as one of the Peace Corps' 2017 top volunteer-producing schools. U-M was also ranked fourth on the Peace Corps’ list of the top-producing graduate schools.According to a Michigan News article, James...
Melvyn Levitsky was featured in a recent Christian Science Monitor article on whether former Utah governor and Obama-era ambassador to China Jon Huntsman would be an effective choice as the U.S. ambassador to Russia.
The article, titled “Jon...
Whether a nation should retaliate against a cyber attack is a complicated decision, and a new framework guided by game theory could help policymakers determine the best strategy.
The "Blame Game" was developed in part by Robert Axelrod, a...
A working paper by Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski titled, “Getting student financing right in the US: lessons from Australia and England,” was published by the Centre for Global Higher Education this...
A new study by Benjamin Edwards, Alexander Furnas, Stephanie Forrest, and Robert Axelrod, titled “Strategic aspects of cyberattack, attribution and blame” was published on February 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
An overwhelming majority of local government leaders in Michigan support reform of the state's controversial emergency manager law, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.Officials from more than 1,300 cities, counties,...
Every year the Ford School organizes a two-day trip to Washington, DC that allows master’s students to explore policy careers while learning from and networking with Ford School alumni who live and work in the nation’s capital.The trip brings...
“Are Michigan’s schools improving? According to a new analysis of national testing data, the answer is a clear 'no,'" says Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” in today’s segment, “On national reading and math test, Michigan only state where students have...
A paper by Katherine Michelmore and Susan Dynarksi titled, “The gap within the gap: Using longitudinal data to understand income differences in educational outcomes” was published on February 1 in AERA Open, a journal from the American Educational...
