Political scientist Dr. Mara Celicia Ostfeld has been named the inaugural research director of the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. In this role, Ostfeld will lead the development of the...
Join the Undergraduate Council—a sponsored student organization at the Ford School—to relax and destress. Food and refreshments available while supplies last.
A talk featuring the Ford School's Ben Green, Deborah Hellman (Univ. of Virginia), and Prof. Hima Lakkaraju (Harvard), moderated by Holli Sargeant (Univ. of Cambridge).
In rural countries, families often have to choose between sending their children to school or keeping them home to help with farming—often having a detrimental impact on educational outcomes. In a new study featured in World Bank Blogs, PhD...
Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics, recently sat down with the International Monetary Fund, arguing that the time is now to reimagine institutions that foster social cohesion.
"The COVID moment has been and still is an...
Abdul El-Sayed, America Dissected: "Today’s episode is about exactly that kind of a set of heroes, a group of Black heroes that revolutionized emergency medical services. Everything from modern CPR to the ways ambulances look and operate. They had...
Economist Betsey Stevenson comments on the effects of workplace harassment of women on the field of economics as a whole in a recent article in The Atlantic.
Stevenson noted that within the profession of academic economics, “We treat women...
