Dean Watkins-Hayes, at the Congressional Breakfast in DC, with Michigan in Washington undergraduates Ajay Morelli, Malinda Brunk, Rachel Ellisen, and Isaac Davis, and Riecker Fellow Hope Wang (MPP...
Mental health and marriage timing Decades of research document powerful associations between parents’ characteristics and children’s marital behaviors. “Parental mental health strongly shapes or disrupts family life and long-term opportunities for...
William G. Axinn is the interim director of the Ford School’s International Policy Center. He recently published “Early-life risk factors for depression among young adults in the United States general population: Attributable risks and gender...
This semester, the Ford School is offering a new course designed to help future public policy professionals master verbal communication skills. It’s led by new lecturer Soojin Kwon, who brings three decades of experience in developing leaders and...
William Axinn will serve as interim director of the Ford School’s International Policy Center (IPC) beginning on August 1, 2024. Paula Lantz will serve as interim associate director of IPC and focus on overseeing and leading a review of the Ford...
Exposure to nearby violence has been shown to increase the onset of alcohol use disorders (AUD), especially in young people. In new research, William Axinn, Ford School professor and research professor at the Survey Research Center and Population...
Kristina Fullerton Rico joins the Ford School as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Racial Justice. Her work focuses on the social and emotional impacts of U.S. immigration policies that lead unauthorized immigrants and their families to endure...
Political scientist Devin Judge-Lord focuses on how public pressure campaigns affect agency rulemaking, especially those concerning climate and environmental justice issues. He also researches legislator behavior and capacity, the role of money in...
Grandparents appeared to serve as an important private safety net when COVID-19 first hit the U.S., according to a new study.
The pandemic’s arrival in 2020 coincided with a surge of nearly 510,000 children living in “doubled-up” households,...
The rate of forced intercourse in early adulthood rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a potential increase in unintended pregnancies and many other sexual, reproductive and mental health problems, according to a University of Michigan...
Human well-being is often measured by economic prosperity metrics, like GDP and poverty rates. In a new article in Daedalus, “Governance for Human Social Flourishing,” Jenna Bednar argues that the framing needs to be expanded beyond purely financial...
Can social infrastructure help reduce the burden of depression, especially in high-risk settings?
A recent study by researchers from the University of Michigan and partners in Nepal, Mexico, and Boston says yes.
Center for Global Health Equity...
New Ford School associate professor Megan Stewart is an expert in international political conflict and revolutionary movements internationally and in the United States. Most recently, Stewart was an assistant professor in the School of International...
An article in The Atlantic examines how affluence affects where older children live in relation to their parents.
Ford School associate professor Natasha Pilkaukas is cited, noting that that the rate of multigenerational living is considerably...
Examining the worries and behaviors of families in Nepal, Ford School courtesy professor William Axinn and colleagues from the Institute of Social Research and its Program in Society, Population, and Environment were able to tap in to an ongoing...
Kathy Michelmore, who was a IES postdoctoral fellow at the Education Policy Initiative (2014-2016), returns to the Ford School and adds social and education policy expertise. She is a leading scholar and educator on the social safety net, education...
Natasha Pilkauskas' research on "Historical Trends in Children Living in Multigenerational Households in the United States: 1870–2018" has been selected as the 2020 winner of the IPUMS Research Award.
Pilkauskas and her co-authors used decennial...
Roughly half the kids in shared households may be living as “guests” in a less stable and secure environment, according to new research from the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy.
The team of researchers from U-M, Cornell...
Christina Weiland, is well-known in the Ford School community, as she has been co-leading the University of Michigan’s Predoctoral Training and Postdoctoral Training Programs in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research and the Education Policy...
Christian Davenport holds faculty positions at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and at LSA Political Science. He is also the co-director of the Conflict & Peace, Research & Development, a scholarly community...
Mara Ostfeld recently joined the Ford School of Public Policy as faculty by courtesy, adding to her faculty roles at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and at LSA Political Science. It is a return to the Ford...
Ben Green was selected as one of six University of Michigan Society of Fellows for a three-year appointment. He will be an assistant professor at the Ford School working on a book project and teaching students. His research focuses on the social and...
Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School, who is arriving at the Ford School after a year as a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. She comes to the Ford...
More money makes you happier...right? Professors Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson say that’s accurate, to a point. “It’s a truism, but it’s false,” states Wolfers plainly on a February 28, 2019, segment from PBS’s NewsHour. “Rich people are...
In her study published in Population Studies, a journal of demography, Christina Cross a doctoral candidate at the Ford School of Public Policy and UM’s Sociology Department, expounds upon the trends and consequences associated with the effects of...
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...
"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 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...
William Axinn’s recent study on sexual assault rates, "General population estimates of the association between college experience and the odds of forced intercourse," finds that while forced intercourse is a pervasive problem on college campuses,...
William Axinn co-authored a study, "Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys," published in Psychological Medicine on August 3, 2016.
Abstract:
Although mental disorders are...
