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We present and explain the vertical organization of corruption in a traffic police agency.

IEDP students will share stories and lessons learned from their trip to Morocco. 

A revival of the U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference held annually between 1981 and 1989, USJAC 2.0 will gather industry leaders, policymakers, and scholars from both sides of the Pacific to discuss the past, present, and future of the U.S. and Japanese auto industries, paying particular attention to the issues of trade, management, and technological change. Keynote speaker and panelist announcements forthcoming.

Join us for a Meet and Greet session with Lou Fintor, the Ford School’s new Diplomat in Residence. Please sign up here. 

On February 23, the Ford School will host graduate students from 14 univerisities to participate in the 2019 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition. This year’s competition—a partnership between the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA)—will connect a record 585 students from 11 global host sites including Dhaka, Cairo, Mexico City, and San Francisco to tackle policy issues associated with forced migration through computer-based simulated game play. 

Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Human Rights in North Korea: Crimes Against Humanity, Advocacy for Change, and Future ProspectsKang Cheol Hwan, Jared Genser, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui

The 2019 Schuman Challenge will welcome undergraduate students from seventeen different U.S. colleges and universities to the EU Delegation to the United States in Washington DC on February 14-15, 2019. During the competition students will work in teams to develop and defend before senior international affairs professionals new policies for transatlantic cooperation supporting Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders

Join us for a conversation and book talk with Harold Koh on his new book: The Trump Administration and International Law.

A talk with Azeem Ibrahim, the author of a new book on the Rohingya crisis.

Experts Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki will lead a conversation aimed at fostering mutual understanding on key points in the dispute.

Estimating intergenerational mobility in developing countries is difficult because matched parent-child income records are rarely available and education is measured very coarsely. In particular, there are no established methods for comparing educational mobility for subsamples of the population when the education distribution is changing over time.

 The objective of the North American Colloquium is to provide a forum that strengtens a wider North American Conversation and more fruitful trilateral cooperation between Canada, Mexico and the US. Colloquium will allow for distinct internal/regional and indigenous perspectives within each country to be showcased.

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many — sometimes all — nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting this property for more than four thousand languages which together account for more than 99 percent of the world’s population. 

Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI by Louise Guillouet, Rocco Macchiavello, Amit Khandelwal, Matthieu Teachout

Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take Up and Impacts of Digital Loans in Kenya by Prashant Bharadwaj, William Jack, Tavneet Suri

Sara Lowes, Bocconi University on "Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt". 

Richard Nielsen, MIT on What Makes a Jihadist Text Popular?  

Vybhavi Balasundharam, PhD Talk Production bottleneck effects and the role of market power: Evidence from India's dereservation reform

Ford School students workshop lunch with Q&A. Limitation of human rights enjoyment under the new regime of illiberal democracy in Poland

WCEE Lecture. Poland, the EU, and Illiberal DemocracyKrzysztof Śmiszek, Polish human rights lawyer, activist, and managing editor of The Anti-Discrimination Law Review

Aram Simonyan will deliver a lecture on the topic, "Accepting corruption:What role do Machiavellianism and rationalization play?"

EDS, PhD Talk with Catalina Franco Buitrago on how do beliefs and feedback affect decision making among students? Evidence from a field experiment.

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.

 "How does the efficiency of skilled labor vary across rich and poor countries? An analysis using industry and trade data” 

In this public talk, Vice Admiral Ota will discuss pressing issues in Northeast Asian security, including current tensions surrounding North Korea, China’s military posture, territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, and how Japan is preparing to deal with each of these matters.

PAUL NIEHAUSDepartment of Economics, UC San Diego

A Collaborative Student-Led, Canada/US Policy Case Competition

Key words: human capital production, child development, cognition, malaria, eradication, immunity, adaptive responses, complementarity