international policy research

This webinar links the new Chitwan Valley Family Study-Young Adult Study (CVFS-YAS) continuous measures of sex and contraceptive use to the prior measures of parental mental health. 

This webinar will provide an overview of dramatic changes in courtship processes, spouse choice and interrelationships between courtship process and marital instability.

Join Dr. Dirgha Ghimire, Executive Director at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research - Nepal (ISER-N), for a conversation about ISER-N's research programming. 

This webinar will provide an overview of the methods for constructing and analyses of polygenic scores for demographic behavior in CVFS. 

This webinar will provide an overview of the various migration-related measures across CVFS datasets, including measures of timing and destination of migration spells. 

In this presentation, the Rating Group’s Deputy Director, Tetiana Skrypchenko, will explore her team's work through a health lens, focusing on wartime surveys to plan health-related interventions and policies for families and children.

During this seminar session, students will learn about recent research examining the health impacts of war on Ukraine’s children.

This webinar uses the new CVFS young adult study (YAS) to document the benefits of a mixed mode design for longitudinal studies. 

Join Dr. Tamma Carleton for the fourth installment of the International Policy Research Seminar (IPRS), hosted by the Ford School's International Policy Center (IPC).

Join Dr. Daniel Mattingly for the third installment of the International Policy Research Seminar (IPRS), hosted by the Ford School's International Policy Center (IPC).

Join Dr. Khalid Medani for the second installment of the International Policy Research Seminar (IPRS). 

Join Dr. Sabrina Karim for the inaugural session of the International Policy Research Seminar (IPRS). 

Join us for a conversation about the findings of two papers from 2020-21's North American Colloquium, on climate policy, with their authors.

Join us for a conversation about the findings of three papers from 2020-21's North American Colloquium on climate policy, with their authors.

Join us for a conversation about the findings of three papers from 2020-21's North American Colloquium, on climate policy, with their authors.

The fourth webinar of the North American colloquium will discuss new approaches to countering nationalist extremism in North America.

Nationalist extremism poses mounting challenges around the world, including in North America. This web-based panel discussion will focus on the policy tools and frameworks available for countering nationalist extremism in Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Experts from the Autonomous National University of Mexico, University of Toronto, and University of Michigan discussed the local and transnational factors giving rise to far-right social movements and policies in each country. 

Policies that improve early life human capital are a promising tool to alter disadvantaged children’s lifelong trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work.

A presentation by Dr. Erica Field (Duke University), part of the fall 2021 Economic Development Seminar series. 

This paper links Africa’s history to its HIV epidemic through colonial institutions’ lasting effects on marriage markets.

The speaker will discuss the effect of raising the level and the transparency of financial incentives offered to local agents for acquiring clients of a new banking product on take-up.

Speakers propose a new theory detailing how disciplined, mechanized forces’ increased personal protection affords them decision space to apply greater restraint in tactical engagements.

Study of how Brazilian municipal governments affect the market structure of illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Promotion incentives in the public sector by means of a field experiment with the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone.

A growing literature associates poverty with anomalies in decision-making. Researchers investigate this link in a sample of over 3,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of similar value.

Effects of a policy that distributed large cash grants through school councils to public schools in rural Pakistan.

Please join us for a virtual seminar featuring panelists Pavin Chachavalpongpun, John Ciorciari, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui.

This paper examines the potential for migration to respond to place-based policies.

This panel discussion brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to analyze the different channels in which the COVID-19 pandemic might accentuate criminal violence and other pre-existing public security challenges in the Latin American & Caribbean region.