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New directions in basic income workshop

May 18, 2018, 2:00-4:30 pm EDT
Michigan League Ballroom and Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre
This workshop will be the first to take an in-depth look at basic income as a poverty alleviation strategy and spur the next generation of research on basic income studies.
Ford School

Heath, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Research Day

Apr 20, 2018, 8:00 am-5:30 pm EDT
Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium
The Economics Department at the University of Michigan will be hosting the fourth H2D2 Research Day on Friday, April 20, 2018. We are pleased to have Amitabh Chandra (Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School) as our keynote speaker. We intend for this mini-conference to draw both faculty and student attendees from the University of Michigan as well as from the greater mid-west and Canada. The conference will focus on the subfields of health, history, development, demography and family economics, broadly defined.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Efficient Coverage of Community College Taxing Districts

Apr 18, 2018, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
About CIERS: The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

Apr 11, 2018, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Guns and Pro-Social Behavior

Feb 14, 2018, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

College Costs Across Fields and Over Time

Dec 13, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Choosing Charter Schools in North Carolina: What Do Parents Value?

Dec 6, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 1210
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series, Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Community development finance: Responding to community needs

Nov 30, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
The panelists will discuss their work in helping to deliver capital to America’s communities, the growth and transformation of the industry,  headwinds the field faces and what’s in store for the next 40 years of community development finance.
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

The Impacts of Grade Retention: Evidence from New York City

Nov 29, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 1210
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Organizing Schools for the Use of Knowledge in College Choice

Nov 15, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Anna Shapiro, PhD Pre-Candidate in Education

Nov 8, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Teaching Assistant Characteristics and Student STEM Outcomes (practice job talk)

Nov 1, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Seth Gershenson: The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers

Oct 18, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 1210
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Variation in and Consequences of Undergraduate Class Size

Oct 11, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Affirmative Action Bans and Interracial Marriage

Oct 4, 2017, 8:30-10:00 am EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.
Ford School