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Clean Energy Revolving Loan Fund helps A2 landlords improve rental unit efficiency

Jul 15, 2016

A few years back, Ford School alumnus Cassie Brown (MPP ’14) and an interdisciplinary team of Dow Sustainability Fellows worked with the City of Ann Arbor to establish a $40,000 Clean Energy Revolving Loan Fund for landlords and renters seeking to...

Susan Dynarski in NYT, "America can fix its student loan crisis. Just ask Australia."

Jul 12, 2016

Seven million borrowers in America are in default on their student loans. In “America can fix its student loan crisis. Just ask Australia,” Susan Dynarski describes the lessons American policymakers can take from other countries.Dynarski, who...

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Inaugural Detroit Data Fellow will assist Motor City police with real-time data analysis

Jul 11, 2016

University of Michigan alum Reid Wilson was selected as the first Detroit Data Fellow and will spend the next two years analyzing Detroit Police Department data to help understand crime patterns in real time. Wilson, who earned a master's...

Latest Michigan Public Policy Survey report focuses on emergency medical services

Jul 6, 2016

One of the core functions of Michigan’s local governments is ensuring public safety. As such, the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) focused its latest Michigan Public Policy Survey on police, fire, and emergency...

Betsey Stevenson in Bloomberg View, "Want to help the economy? Learn to trust."

Jul 5, 2016

“It’s hard to know whom you can trust anymore—at least that’s the attitude of many Americans today. Therein lies a crucial challenge for the world’s largest economy,” writes Betsey Stevenson in “Want to Help the Economy? Learn to Trust,” published...

Michelmore and Dynarski on understanding income differences in student achievement

Jul 1, 2016

Katherine Michelmore and Susan Dynarski have written a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper on “The gap within the gap: Using longitudinal data to understand income differences in student achievement," released in July...

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Student podcasts with Michigan policy leaders on health disparities, immigration, and more

Jun 29, 2016

Students in Gretchen Whitmer’s winter 2016 seminar on “Running, Serving, and Leading” interviewed a number of thought leaders about policy issues important to...

Thacher speaks with PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing”

Jun 29, 2016

David Thacher spoke with Sarah Childress of PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing.”The piece, which explores what we know, and don’t know, about the effectiveness of broken windows policing, aired on June 28.Just what is...

New undergrad politics, policy course offers opportunities to work with survey research data

Jun 28, 2016

The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) is offering a new undergraduate course for students looking for opportunities to work with survey research...

Changes in insurance coverage among hospitalized nonelderly adults after Michigan Medicaid expansion

Jun 21, 2016

A research letter on "Changes in insurance coverage among hospitalized nonelderly adults after Medicaid expansion in Michigan," by Matthew Davis, Achamyeleh Gebremariam, and John Ayanian, was published in the June 21 edition of the Journal of the...

Latest Michigan Public Policy Survey addresses local firefighting challenges, approaches

Jun 15, 2016

CLOSUP’s latest policy report, released today, examines Michigan local government leaders’ opinions on fire protection services in their communities, including satisfaction with fire services and funding of fire protection at the local...

EPI’s DC conference, “Restructuring student loans: Lessons from abroad"

Jun 14, 2016

Roughly 100 guests—including policymakers, practitioners, and members of the press—attended “Restructuring student loans: Lessons from abroad,” a conference organized by Susan Dynarski, co-founder and co-director of the Ford School’s Education...

Susan Dynarski pens Milken Institute piece, “How to—and how not to—manage student debt”

Jun 10, 2016

For the Milken Institute Review, Susan Dynarski explains, “How to—and how not to—manage student debt.”“If you even casually follow the news, you’ve probably heard that Americans owe a record $1.3 trillion in student loans,” writes Dynarski. Seven...

Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation, "The Puerto Rican primary matters. Here's why."

Jun 6, 2016

“Puerto Rico’s primary did not receive the media attention of many of those that preceded it,” writes Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation. “And with only 60 pledged delegates, a primary late in the election season, and a population that is ineligible...

Justin Wolfers in NYT Upshot, “The jobs report is not quite as terrible as it looks”

Jun 3, 2016

“The jobs report is not quite as terrible as it looks,” a New York Times Upshot piece by Justin Wolfers, reviews the latest employment report, which suggests that the economic recovery is slowing with only 38,000 jobs added in May.“It is worth...

Shipan in WaPo, “The Supreme Court is taking far fewer cases than usual. Here’s why.”

Jun 3, 2016

Charles Shipan (with Kenneth W. Moffett and Forrest Maltzman) has penned a piece for The Washington Post Monkey Cage, “The Supreme Court is taking far fewer cases than usual. Here’s why.”In it, Shipan and colleagues describe their joint research...

Ben Bernanke talks monetary policy at Economic Club of Grand Rapids dinner

Jun 1, 2016

Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, was the featured speaker at the 29th annual Economic Club of Grand Rapids dinner on Tuesday, May 31. Dean Susan M. Collins interviewed Dr. Bernanke for the event, which drew 1,600 registered...

Rachel Potter wins APSA award for best doctoral dissertation in American government

Jun 1, 2016

The American Political Science Association has recognized Rachel A. Potter (PhD ‘14) with the E. E. Schattschneider award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government. Her dissertation, “Writing the rules of the game: The...

Pilkauskas' "Understanding grandfamilies" is published in the Journal of Marriage and Family

Jun 1, 2016

A journal article on “Understanding grandfamilies: Characteristics of grandparents, non-resident parents, and children,” by Natasha V. Pilkauskas and Rachel E. Dunifon, appears in the June 2016 edition of the Journal of Marriage and...

From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover

Jun 1, 2016

A journal article by Heather Barnes Truelove, Kam Leung Yeung, Amanda R. Carrico, Ashley J. Gillis, and Kaitlin Toner Raimi, "From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover," was published in the...

Labor supply effects of occupational regulation: Evidence from the Nurse Licensure Compact

Jun 1, 2016

A journal article by Christina DePasquale and Kevin Stange, "Labor supply effects of occupational regulation: Evidence from the Nurse Licensure Compact," was distributed as a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper this...

Hausman's "What was bad for GM was bad for America," in Journal of Economic History

Jun 1, 2016

A journal article by Joshua Hausman, "What was bad for General Motors was bad for America: The automobile industry and the 1937/38 recession," was published in the June 2016 edition of The Journal of Economic History. AbstractThis article shows that...

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Catherine Hausman on methane leak repairs, "low-hanging fruit for climate change abatement"

May 25, 2016

Catherine Hausman’s NBER working paper, “Price regulation and environmental externalities: Evidence from methane leaks,” (with Lucija Muehlenbachs) looks at the unintended consequences of cost-of-service price regulations of privately-owned natural...

Sandra Danziger, $2.00 a Day cited in NYT on political rifts over 1996 welfare reform

May 23, 2016

Sandra Danziger and $2.00 a Day are cited in The New York Times piece, “Political rifts over Bill Clinton’s welfare law resurface as aid shrinks.” The piece, which examines the mixed legacy of welfare reform on the occasion of its pending 20th...

New York Review of Books on $2.00 a Day and “Why the very poor have become poorer”

May 23, 2016

In “Why the very poor have become poorer,” Christopher Jencks reviews $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, for the June 9 issue of The New York Review of Books. Written by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day (Houghton Mifflin...

Michigan Radio features Parthasarathy on fostering grassroots innovation in Michigan

May 10, 2016

Shobita Parthasarathy’s research on grassroots innovation in India is featured on this week’s “The Next Idea,” a Michigan Radio series dedicated to game-changing innovations and ideas. Listen here.In “Fostering grassroots innovation: Lessons India...

“Is student debt hampering the housing recovery?” No, says Dynarski in Brookings

May 4, 2016

“The striking gap in homeownership is not between college-educated people who did and did not borrow, but between those with and without a college education,” writes Susan Dynarski in “The dividing line between haves and have-nots in homeownership:...

Police funding reportedly lags behind in Michigan’s big jurisdictions, CLOSUP survey

Apr 29, 2016

ANN ARBOR—Nearly half, or 47 percent, of local leaders from the largest jurisdictions in Michigan say they lack sufficient funding to fight crime in their areas, according to the latest Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), "Most local officials are...

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Amplifying policy issues that impact black lives: Menna Demessie (PhD ’10) at CBCF

Apr 29, 2016

As vice president of research and analysis for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), Menna Demessie (PhD ’10) sifts through data and information on racial disparities and uses her findings to help educate policymakers and their...

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Mary Corcoran and Betsey Stevenson on narrowing the stubborn gender compensation gap

Apr 25, 2016

Women’s employment and earnings have changed dramatically since Mary Corcoran, professor of public policy, political science, and women’s studies, began to explore the issue some four decades ago. When Corcoran wrote her dissertation at MIT in 1975,...