This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the theoretical rationale and potential impact of...
States enjoy enormous away over education, transportation, health care, and other policies. Politicians and interest groups that shape decisions differ in many respects to those active at the federal and local...
This course examines crime and criminal justice policy in the United States. In the first part of the course, we will develop a framework for evaluating criminal justice policy organized around four values: Safety, censure, liberty, and...
This seminar examines trends in poverty and income inequality and social welfare programs and policies that affect the nonelderly poor in the U.S., emphasizing how the labor market and social welfare policies have evolved since the War on Poverty...
The purpose of this course is to expose students to various perspectives on state and local policy in the U.S. through the lens of one especially topical policy area: development...
This course explores how and why socioeconomic policies (e.g., education, income/welfare, civil rights, macroeconomics/employment, housing/urban policies) may be as or more consequential for population health as “health” policies (i.e., health...
This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...
This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...
The course will develop the skills of using analytic methods and models to understand real decisions and policy issues, drawn from the realms of natural resource management, public policy, business strategy, politics, negotiations, and...
This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...
The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a semester-long faculty-supervised group consulting project for a real-world policy...
This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy...
This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent...
Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...
Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State Legislatures become the true "laboratories of...
The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a significant difference in the way...