Jessica Goldberg

Ford School Professor Dean Yang has been honored with the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award by the Rackham Graduate School.  The award recognizes tenured faculty who are “outstanding mentors of (graduate) students, who support their intellectua...

By Rebecca Cohen (MPP '09) An essential ingredient to developing good policy is understanding what people want and need, and how they experience their lives," says Elisabeth Gerber, Jack L. Walker, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and di...

Recent publications by ROBERT AXELROD include "Challenges in researching terrorism from the field" with SCOTT ATRAN (Science); "How historical analogies in newspapers of five countries make sense of major events: 9/11, Mumbai, and Tahrir Square" (Res...

Eight years ago, development economist Dean Yang spent a week in Malawi visiting microfinance institutions, the banks and credit unions that provide financial services to some of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Yang, who works to combat ext...

Understanding labor patterns in rural Malawi Jessica Goldberg understands the precepts of labor economics well enough to know when something doesn't seem right. "I see things all the time in Malawi where I observe someone's behavior and I think...