Dear friends:I’m delighted to introduce another newsletter packed with highlights. Get caught up on news from our highly-engaged faculty--including Professor Sue Dynarski’s testimony before the U.S.Senate on student financial aid and a key Obama...
An article by Sarah Mills, "Wind development in Pennsylvania: a reflection on state policy," was published in Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy (Volume 19, Number 1 [2017]). AbstractWhile other states have continued to add...
An article by Barry Rabe and Sarah Mills, "State energy policy in the Trump Era: Insights from public opinion," was published in the December 2017 edition of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Abstract
In light of President...
"Natural resource collection and desired family size: A longitudinal test of environment-population theories," by Sarah Brauner-Otto and William Axinn, was published in the June 2017 issue of Population and Environment.AbstractTheories relating the...
William Axinn served as lead author on "General population estimates of the association between college experience and the odds of forced intercourse," published by Social Science Research in October 2017.AbstractSexual assault on college campuses...
William Axinn is a contributing author on "Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: Results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys," published by Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric...
“For decades, the number of women studying economics seemed to be increasing, easing the persistent scarcity of professional female economists in the United States,” writes Justin Wolfers in his February 2 column, "Why women's voices are scarce in...
Barry Rabe, director of the University of Michigan's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, has been appointed to a five-member National Academy of Public Administration Panel of Fellows that is charged with assessing the Oklahoma Corporation...
This summer, Ford School Dean Michael Barr served as co-counsel on an amicus brief by leading financial regulation scholars in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The suit, brought by a NJ-based mortgage lender that had been fined...
Richard Hall and Molly E. Reynolds (PhD '15) will co-author a chapter, "Financing the 2016 Congressional," in the forthcoming Brookings Institution Press book, Financing the 2016 Elections (David Magleby, ed.). The book is expected to be published...
Professor Alan Deardorff's "Comparative advantage in digital trade" was published as a chapter in Cloth for Wine? The Relevance of Ricardo's Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century, edited by Simon J. Evenett and released by the Centre for...
An article by Paula Lantz and Samantha Iovan, "When Does Pay-for-Success Make Sense?" was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in December.IntroductionThere is growing excitement about the potential of pay-for-success (PFS) financing,...
An article by Professor Charles Shipan and doctoral alumna Rachel Potter (PhD '14), "Agency rulemaking in a separation of powers system," was published in the Journal of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press) in November.AbstractRulemaking gives...
Poverty Solutions has announced its grant awards for 2018 and two Ford School professors, Shobita Parthasarathy and Kristin S. Seefeldt, have been chosen as Faculty Grant Award recipients.
Parthasarathy’s project, “The Politics of Technology...
In a new blog for the Brookings Institution, Barry Rabe looks into the difficulties surrounding climate policy in America, detailing how fluctuating positions at the federal level have impacted states and their individual commitments.Barry Rabe is...
He's a philanthropist, an activist, an entrepreneur, and a U-M alum. David C. Bohnett (MBA '80), founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation and Baroda Ventures, will give the keynote address to the Ford School's spring 2018 graduating...
Four Ford School undergraduate students were nominated for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Awards this year for exemplifying leadership and extraordinary vision in inclusivity and social justice.Kyra Hudson (BA '19), Gloriela Iguina-Colón (BA...
If you oversee a campus unit willing and capable of employing teenagers and young adults this summer, Poverty Solutions invites you to consider submitting part-time job placements as part of the University of Michigan’s Summer Youth Employment...
New research conducted by Associate Professor of Public Policy Betsey Stevenson and Hanna Zlotnick (MPP ‘19) is highlighted in The Economist’s “How gender is (mis)represented in economics textbooks” and Inside Higher Ed’s “Gender Bias, by the...
In this Sunday’s New York Times print edition, Susan Dynarski will dispute the effectiveness of online courses, particularly for less proficient students.Drawing on research Dynarski did for the Brookings Institution last October, Dynarski’s new New...
Susan Dynarski will testify in front of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing “Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency.” The hearing will be livestreamed...
Broderick D. Johnson (JD '83) will join the Ford School as the winter 2019 Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, teaching a course on "Lobbying and Mass Incarceration." He follows Dudley Benoit (MPP ‘95) who taught...
The 2018 Social Impact Challenge, co-hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, and the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Impact, is a campus-wide student competition. It tasks...
Joy Rohde's "Pax Technologica: Computers, international affairs, and human reason in the Cold War" was published in Isis in December.
Abstract
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer...
This week six Ford School students were awarded Dow Sustainability Fellowships. Each will receive $20,000 for their studies and will join a diverse and collaborative community dedicated to sustainability.Dow Fellows focus on interdisciplinary...
The Senate committee chair was overthrown, a protest stalled a House committee vote, and a single vote made the difference in protecting the environmental safety of the Great Lakes--all during the Ford School’s three-day Integrated Policy Exercise...
Natasha Pilkauskas, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia), and Jane Waldfogel (Columbia) have published a 2017 paper in Developmental Psychology: “Maternal employment stability in early childhood: Links with child behavior and cognitive skills.” The...
Renuka Tipirneni, Susan D. Goold, and John Z. Ayanian published a December 11 research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine on “Employment status and health characteristics of adults with expanded Medicaid coverage in Michigan.”
The study analyzed...
Mariana Amorim (Cornell University), Rachel Dunifon (Cornell University), and Natasha Pilkauskas recently co-authored a paper on "The magnitude and timing of grandparental coresidence during childhood in the U.S." The paper was published on December...
I'm Michael Barr, and I'm pleased to introduce myself as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Ford School. While I'm new as dean, I've been working collaboratively with Ford School faculty members for 20 years now. And two decades in, I'm still...
