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Lantz contributes to National Academies advisory report for "Healthy People 2030"

Feb 12, 2020

Professor Paula Lantz contributed her expertise to a recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report that informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publication Leading Health...

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Dec 10, 2019

Starting fall 2020, the Ford School will offer University of Michigan undergraduates a 16-credit minor in public policy. The minor will have a competitive application process that will go live in April 2020. The school expects to enroll around...

Luke Shaefer named special counselor to the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Nov 22, 2019

H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan and professor of social work and public policy, has been named special counselor to the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). For the...

Luke Shaefer delivers a talk at the Ford School

Lowering national debt is as easy as 1, 2, $4.95 billion!

Sep 24, 2019

The U.S. national debt has reached the highest levels in history outside of a war or recession. At current spending rates, the national debt will reach a record high by 2034. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid make up half of the federal...

Lantz calls for nonbiased data to evaluate deaths from restricting abortions

Jun 25, 2019

As several states pass laws restricting access to abortion, many statistics are being batted around as part of the debate. In an opinion piece published in Milbank Quarterly, a leading health policy journal, Paula Lantz, associate dean for academic...

Reynolds Farley offers historical perspective for Nantucket census debate to WSJ

Oct 9, 2018

As we inch further from the warmer months, The Wall Street Journal’s Jo Craven McGinty calls our attention back to Nantucket, a New England summer getaway, and questions of an accurate count of residents on the transient island. Conflicting counts...

Michael Barr's financial regulation textbook set for publication

Jul 31, 2018

Dean Michael S. Barr's textbook, Financial Regulation: Law and Policy 2d, written with coauthors Howell Jackson and Margaret Tahyar, will be released on August 6, 2018. Just two years after the publication of the first edition of Financial...

Photo of Michael Barr and his new book, "Financial Regulation: Law and Policy"

Students publish 15th edition of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs

Jul 9, 2018

In June, Ford School graduate students announced the publication of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 15. The journal is available online here.MJPA is the Ford School's graduate student-run journal, dedicated to publishing innovative...

Graphic with text "Michigan Journal of Public Affairs in Solidarity with Black lives"

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Jacob: Grow Detroit’s Young Talent benefits youth “long after they receive their last paycheck”

Apr 13, 2018

The administrators of Grow Detroit’s Young Talent, a youth summer employment program, always knew that the program made a difference in participants’ lives. Now, that intuition is backed up by data. Researchers at the University of Michigan,...

Shipan receives Herbert Simon Award at Midwest Political Science Association meeting

Apr 10, 2018

Charles Shipan was awarded the Herbert Simon Award by the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) at the MPSA’s 2018 conference in Chicago last weekend. According to the MPSA, the career achievement award recognizes a scholar who has made a...

Joy Rohde publishes article in Isis on “Pax Technologica” during the Cold War

Jan 13, 2018

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...

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Measuring higher ed performance: Kevin Stange on the numerator and denominator

Dec 15, 2017

As Kevin Stange sees it, there's a conspicuously missing link in much of the higher education decision-making process. "The higher ed sector, as a productive entity, is a huge fraction of the U.S. economy," says Stange, who was promoted to...

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Complex and fragile: The university's dual role as society's servant and society's critic

Dec 14, 2017

It's been 200 years since the founding of Michigan's first and flagship university: ours. Every moment is a turning point. But this moment—our bicentennial—is particularly poignant. As schools and stakeholders across the University of Michigan...

Paula Lantz offers seven recommendations for 'pay-for-success' interventions

Dec 11, 2017

Harnessing the private sector for effective social programs ANN ARBOR—A set of seven recommendations for “pay-for-success” interventions identified by researchers at the University of Michigan can help governments and private investors work...

In Brookings, Dynarski describes who benefits from online ed, and who doesn’t

Nov 13, 2017

In “Online schooling: Who is harmed and who is helped?” Susan Dynarski highlights key findings from recent randomized trials and regression discontinuity design studies that attempt to measure the impact of online schooling on student success....

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Media highlights Global Detroit, Ford School study on economic impact of refugees

Nov 7, 2017

On October 17, Global Detroit and researchers at the Ford School of Public Policy released a study estimating that refugees in southeast Michigan contribute up to $295 million to the regional economy – leading to coverage by numerous media outlets,...

Jacob in Brookings: States need to support research on Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Nov 7, 2017

"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...

Internship field report, Lina Grant @ California's Department of Finance HHS unit

Sep 19, 2017

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...

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NSF award: Kaitlin Raimi uses behavioral insights to reduce household energy consumption

Sep 13, 2017

Kaitlin Raimi and colleagues from the College of Engineering (SangHyun Lee) and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (Philip S. Hart) have received a $330,000 award from the National Science Foundation to explore a new technique designed to...

NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

Sep 11, 2017

Michael Barr and colleagues from the College of Engineering (Michael Wellman) and Ross School of Business (Uday Rajan) have been awarded a $670,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new techniques to identify financial market...

Ten years on, reflecting on Ned Gramlich’s legacy of service and leadership

Sep 5, 2017

Ten years ago today, we mourned the passing of Edward M. (Ned) Gramlich, a leader and friend of the Ford School and its predecessor, the Institute of Public Policy Studies, and a much-loved teacher and mentor to generations of aspiring public...

Photo of Ned Gramlich seated at his desk on campus

APSA to recognize Shipan with prestigious Deil Wright (MPA ‘54) best paper award

Aug 8, 2017

Charles Shipan will be recognized with the Deil S. Wright (MPA ‘54) award from the American Political Science Association this September. The award, which is given to the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations, will...

Jacob in Brookings: Causes, consequences, and potential solutions for chronic absenteeism

Jul 31, 2017

In a July 27 “Evidence Speaks” column for the Brookings Institution, Brian Jacob and Kelly Lovett discuss “Chronic absenteeism: An old problem in search of new answers.”During the 2013-14 academic year, the authors report that 14 percent of students...

Education Policy Initiative wins funding for postdoctoral fellowships in education sciences

Jun 29, 2017

Scholars from the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative (EPI) and the University of Michigan's School of Education have received a $712,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to continue the University’s postdoctoral training...

Welcome to the Ford School's 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs Fellows

Jun 5, 2017

Please join us in welcoming the Ford School's 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellows to Ann Arbor. The PPIA program, which the Ford School has participated in each year since 1983, aims to promote diversity in public service....

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A voice for local governments: CLOSUP and the M's, the power of partnership

Apr 29, 2017

It's been eight years since the Ford School launched the Michigan Public Policy Survey, which collects data and opinions about a broad range of state and local policy challenges from local government leaders across the state. After 16 surveys, 60...

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Analytic methods

Lantz contributes to National Academies advisory report for "Healthy People 2030"

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Luke Shaefer named special counselor to the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Lowering national debt is as easy as 1, 2, $4.95 billion!

Lantz calls for nonbiased data to evaluate deaths from restricting abortions

Reynolds Farley offers historical perspective for Nantucket census debate to WSJ

Michael Barr's financial regulation textbook set for publication

Students publish 15th edition of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs

Jacob: Grow Detroit’s Young Talent benefits youth “long after they receive their last paycheck”

Shipan receives Herbert Simon Award at Midwest Political Science Association meeting

Joy Rohde publishes article in Isis on “Pax Technologica” during the Cold War

Measuring higher ed performance: Kevin Stange on the numerator and denominator

Complex and fragile: The university's dual role as society's servant and society's critic

Paula Lantz offers seven recommendations for 'pay-for-success' interventions

In Brookings, Dynarski describes who benefits from online ed, and who doesn’t

Media highlights Global Detroit, Ford School study on economic impact of refugees

Jacob in Brookings: States need to support research on Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Internship field report, Lina Grant @ California's Department of Finance HHS unit

NSF award: Kaitlin Raimi uses behavioral insights to reduce household energy consumption

NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

Ten years on, reflecting on Ned Gramlich’s legacy of service and leadership

APSA to recognize Shipan with prestigious Deil Wright (MPA ‘54) best paper award

Jacob in Brookings: Causes, consequences, and potential solutions for chronic absenteeism

Education Policy Initiative wins funding for postdoctoral fellowships in education sciences

Welcome to the Ford School's 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs Fellows

A voice for local governments: CLOSUP and the M's, the power of partnership

Ford School faculty members share seven key strategies for effective collaboration

Ford School IEDP students travel to Greece to research economic, refugee policies

Wolfers in NYT Upshot: "How Gorsuch could pull the eight other justices rightward"

New graduate seminar: Quantifying the economic impact of refugees in Detroit