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New study ties exposure to armed conflict violence in childhood with subsequent alcohol use disorder

Sep 27, 2023

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...

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Center for Racial Justice welcomes 2023-24 visiting fellows cohort!

Sep 18, 2023

The Ford School’s Center for Racial Justice proudly welcomes Dr. Moya Z. Bailey, Dr. Angela S. García, Dr. Clarence Wardell III, and Diane J. Wright as Visiting Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. The Visiting Fellows Program, the signature...

Portraits of (top left to right) Clarence Wardell, Moya Bailey, (bottom left to right) Diane Wright and Angela Garcia

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Camara’s expertise called upon as coups threaten African stability

Aug 31, 2023

A recent military coup in Gabon makes the Central African state the sixth Francophone country to have its leader fall to a military coup in the past three years, following Mali, Chad, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Ford School professor of...

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Pandemic pushed half-million kids into grandparents’ homes - Pilkauskas

Aug 30, 2023

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,...

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Dean Watkins-Hayes salutes her mentor, editing the Speechifying compendium

Aug 30, 2023

Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes is honoring one of her great mentors, Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole — noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's...

Speechifying Book Cover featuring Dr. Cole

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Meet our new faculty: Mo Torres

Aug 25, 2023

Mo Torres returns to the Ford School (he graduated with his MPP in 2015) as one of six University of Michigan Society of Fellows for a three-year appointment. He will work closely with the Center for Racial Justice. Torres is a historical...

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Inaugural ASPIRE cohort enjoys rewarding summer research experience with the Youth Policy Lab

Aug 24, 2023

Summer 2023 proved to be eventful and rewarding for the inaugural Applied Social Policy Internship and Research Experience (ASPIRE) cohort. The program, a collaboration between the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Spelman College, provided...

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Mapping poverty in America: Shaefer’s new book explores “The Injustice of Place”

Aug 3, 2023

America is rife with "internal colonies," where systemic violence, resource extraction, and corruption among decision makers have contributed to generations of poverty and disadvantage. These communities suffer from environmental degradation, lack...

In the Media

Jacob paper on student loan debt relief for teachers: No significant effect

Aug 1, 2023 Knowledge at Wharton

Brian Jacob, Knowledge at Wharton: “The potentially limited take-up of this program is of particular interest against the backdrop of a long-standing challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers, especially in high-need school districts, and, more...

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Jacob's study on teacher loan forgiveness cited in Chalkbeat

Aug 1, 2023 Chalkbeat

Brian Jacob, Chalkbeat: “The program has really good intentions,” said Brian Jacob, a professor at the University of Michigan and coauthor of the study. But, ultimately, “it’s not effective as it’s currently structured.” “The teachers in schools...

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Four named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors

Jul 20, 2023

Four U-M faculty members have been named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors for their exceptional contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion through research, teaching and service. The Board of Regents approved the...

Paula M. Lantz, Antoinette Louise Toppin, Kyle P. Whyte and Alford A. Young Jr.

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Ford School’s Katherine Michelmore Senate testimony - “Assessing 25 years of the Child Tax Credit”

Jul 13, 2023

Ford School Associate Professor Katherine Michelmore testified before the United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, sharing her insights into the effectiveness, and drawbacks, of the first 25 years of the Child Tax...

In the Media

Michigan attitude on climate action changing - Rabe

Jul 10, 2023 The New York Times

Barry Rabe, The New York Times: Barry Rabe, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said public opinion in the state about the need for climate action is shifting. “We have begun to see a kind of pivot and change in my...

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U.S. Supreme Court overturns affirmative action: Ford School experts available

Jun 29, 2023

Ford School experts can discuss the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action Thursday, in which the justices ruled that race cannot be a factor in college and university admissions decisions: Katherine Michelmore, associate...

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Thacher on coercion in mental health treatment

Jun 26, 2023

The death of Jordan Neely on a subway car in New York in May remains in the news, as a former marine, Daniel Penny, has been indicted for the chokehold that killed him. In the background, details of Neely’s mental illness has reignited a debate...

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Declaring the “end” of the pandemic presents short- and long-term hazards - Lantz

Jun 7, 2023

The World Health Organization declared of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic’s global public health emergency status on May 5, 2023. On May 11, many of the U.S. federal pandemic-related public health and economic actions came to an end. Ford School...

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Ford School expert shares thoughts on next steps after US report on social media's effects on youth

Jun 5, 2023

A Ford School public policy expert who has reviewed the U.S. surgeon general's advisory outlining social media's profound risks to children's mental health says policymakers will need a great deal more data before making any formal...

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Yang conceives new framework for examining migration policies

May 23, 2023

How can individual researchers, NGOs and governments accurately assess how to improve migration policies, given the fraught international and sometimes nationalist political environment? While migration from a poorer to a richer country can have the...

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Information about climate-induced migration spurs negative attitudes about immigrants

May 18, 2023

Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages, according to researchers at the...

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Ford School's Paula Lantz: Implications of restrictive abortion policies on maternal health, social welfare

May 10, 2023

Restrictive abortion policies in the U.S. are predicted to have negative effects on maternal health, women's economic opportunities and social welfare systems. A multidisciplinary team of experts from the University of Michigan warns that...

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Faculty News, spring 2023

May 3, 2023

Dominique Adams-Santos, Celeste Watkins-Hayes, and PhD candidate Kayonne Christy contributed a chapter, "Narratives in Context: Locating Racism and Sexism in Black Women's Health Experiences," to The Routledge Companion to...

Headshots of Kathryn M. Dominguez, Rusty Hills, Morela Hernandez, Brian Jacob, Barry Rabe, Megan Stewart, David Thacher, Christina Weiland

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Catalysts for racial justice

May 3, 2023

Three inaugural Center for Racial Justice visiting fellows—Julian Brave NoiseCat, Makeda Easter, and Atinuke (Tinu) O. Adediran—reflect on the work they've pursued during their year at the Ford School. By Lillian Chen and Rebecca Cohen (MPP...

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Shapiro (PhD '23) named National Poverty Fellow

Apr 27, 2023

Ford School doctoral candidate Shoshana Shapiro (PhD '23) was chosen as one of five 2023-24 National Poverty Fellows (NPF). As part of her postdoctoral fellowship, Shapiro will be in residence in the Office of Community Services (OCS) in the...

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Lantz, Michelmore & Pilkauskas celebrate 100 years of ‘The Milbank Quarterly’ with special issue

Apr 25, 2023

In celebration of its 100th anniversary, The Milbank Quarterly published “The Future of Population Health: Challenges and Opportunities,” a special issue of 36 articles by a diverse set of leading and emerging scholars. Edited by Paula Lantz, James...

Headshots of Paula Lantz, Katherine Michelmore, Natasha Pilkauskas

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Learning from lottery-based evaluations of early education programs

Apr 19, 2023

The value of Pre-K education has been widely acknowledged through decades of research. However, much of that research has come from studying older and often smaller programs than those currently being implemented across the country. To determine how...

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Ford School junior is named U-M's 30th Truman Scholar

Apr 12, 2023

The lack of stability in housing for Brown and Black communities and barriers to college access for Arabic and Muslim high schoolers have been a focus of Yasmine Elkharssa's studies for several years. Now, as the newest Truman Scholar, the...

Yasmine Elkharssa and Celeste Watkins-Hayes

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Jacob finds little benefit, large costs to pretrial juvenile detention

Apr 11, 2023

Despite the large number of youth detained in juvenile detention centers before a trial, little research has been conducted on the impact of this detainment on life outcomes. Publishing a new research brief for the Cato Institute, Brian Jacob,...

In the Media

Cooney on Detroit guaranteed income proposal

Apr 4, 2023 WDET

Patrick Cooney, WDET: "It’s no surprise that when people get cash material hardship drops. But the fact that material hardship was so high in the first place in the richest country on Earth…that is a big...

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Ali calls for designation of K-12 schools as 'critical infrastructure'

Mar 29, 2023

As school shootings continue to be a problem facing America, policymakers can't seem to make progress when it comes to a response, whether that be improved mental health resources or gun control. Frustrated with the lackluster response, Javed Ali,...

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Bednar emphasizes importance of community, dignity, sustainability and beauty in policymaking

Mar 16, 2023

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...