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Kathryn M. Dominguez quoted in Sunday Business Post Online article, "Dollar only heading one way: down"

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Kathryn M. Dominguez was quoted in the Sunday Business Post Online in an article about the decreasing value of the U.S. dollar.

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Dean Yang receives grant to study subsidies, savings programs in Mozambique

Friday, April 29, 2011

Dean Yang received a grant from the University of Wisconsin and USAID to conduct field experiments in Mozambique.

His project, titled "Savings, Subsidies, and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique: 2011 Post-Harvest Survey Supplement," will assess the impact of fertilizer subsidies and a matched savings program that may improve the longer-term impact of such subsidies.

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Ford School BA student wins undergraduate research paper competition

Friday, April 29, 2011

A research paper by Tommaso Pavone (BA '11) took first place in the 2011 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Undergraduate Research Paper Competition.

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Regents extend Paul N. Courant's appointment as University Librarian, Dean of Libraries

Friday, April 29, 2011

During their April meeting, the University of Michigan Regents extended Paul N. Courant's appointment as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries. Courant, originally appointed in 2007, will continue to serve in these two positions until August 31, 2013.

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Brian A. Jacob research cited in Wall Street Journal blog about local, short-term effects of gun shows

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Research by Brian A. Jacob was cited in a Wall Street Journal Ideas Market blog called, "Gun Shows Don't Increase Crime, Study Finds."

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Nearly $14,000 raised during 2011 Class Giving Campaign

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The 2011 Class Giving Campaign—"One Ford. One Community. One Pledge." —has ended with tremendous results, raising a total of $13,903 for the Graduate and Undergraduate Annual Funds.

Nearly 76 percent of graduating MPP/MPA students participated in the campaign, and an impressive 86 percent of the BA class pledged support. The money raised also includes a generous matching gift from Jim Hudak (MPP '71), chair of the Ford School committee, and his wife, Mary. (Read more about the Hudaks' matching gift incentive in the Spring 2011 issue of State & Hill below.)

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State & Hill's Spring 2011 issue explores international economics, development, and growth

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

This issue of the Ford School's State & Hill presents a suite of articles on international economics, development, and growth. Faculty and alumni perspectives are explored in articles ranging from the use of remittances as a tool for combating poverty to development economics in post-Soviet bloc countries. Other articles include a feature on David Thacher's work on public safety disparities, a student's experiences in the aftermath of Cairo's "youth revolution," and a Q&A with an undergrad who did double duty as a sports writer.

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Two Ford School doctoral students recognized for exceptional dissertations

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Christopher Roberts (PhD '10) has been honored with Rackham's top doctoral award for his dissertation, "Exploring Fractures Within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance."

The 2010 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards are given to those representing the best scholarly work published in Rackham dissertations last year. Eight awards were given to doctoral students—from across disciplines—for their exceptional and unusually interesting work.

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Sharpening a powerful anti-poverty tool

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Official development assistance, the amount contributed worldwide to promote the welfare and development of emerging economies, fell to $120 billion in 2009—down from $128 billion before the economic recession began. In the same year, remittances—gifts working migrants sent home to their loved ones—amounted to nearly three times that amount: $307 billion. Clearly, remittances are a powerful tool for combating extreme global poverty.

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Undergrad covers big-time sports between Ford School classes

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Writing concise policy memos was no sweat for Nicole Auerbach (BA '11), who covered U-M basketball, hockey and, in 2010, football for the Michigan Daily during her undergraduate career. Auerbach has interned at USA Today and freelanced for the Wall Street Journal, SI.com, and ESPN.com. The Hillsborough, NJ, native will intern this summer at the Boston Globe.

Auerbach spoke with S&H about how a public policy liberal arts degree meshed with sports writing at the U-M.

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Economist Jan Svejnar advises post-Soviet Bloc countries

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Professor Jan Svejnar, the son of a prominent development economist, was forced to fee his home when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svejnar, who lived through the rise of the Berlin Wall, and its undoing, is now an internationally recognized expert in transition economies, which he believes are a wonderful laboratory for anyone who wants to understand economic development.

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PhD student 'becomes the demand'

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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, 'That is not what was predicted by the model I was taught in my PhD program,' said Goldberg, a joint PhD candidate in economics and public policy. Such observations helped her identify the crux of her recent research, which suggests daily laborers in rural Malawi will take the same job even if their wage drastically changes each week.

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Michigander finds new reasons to love Detroit

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Last summer, life-long Michigander Mynti Hossain (MPP '11) won a competitive internship with the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC). The Ford School's longstanding partnerships with DEGC and other Motor City nonproft and government groups allow graduate students to work in the heart of the city's revitalization efforts. Now approaching graduation from the Ford School's master's program, Hossain reflects on her experience, and on her hopes for the future.

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Accounting for growth

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Susan M. Collins and co-author Barry P. Bosworth, both senior fellows at the DC-based Brookings Institution, will release an update to their widely used growth accounts this spring. The data allow students, researchers, and policy analysts to compare and contrast the growth experiences of 84 emerging and industrial economies from 1960-2008, the period just before the recent economic crisis.

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A thinner blue line

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Flint and Ann Arbor, Mich., are roughly equal in size. But that's where the comparison ends. Ann Arbor is home to a rapidly growing tech industry, a highly educated and affluent population, and a $26 million police services budget. Flint is the birthplace of both Michael Moore and General Motors, but home to neither. Instead, the city is home to high poverty and unemployment, one of the most startling violent crime rates in America, and a $17 million budget shortfall that forced Flint Mayor Dayne Walling to lay off more than 60 officers last year alone. As a result, the most recent national figures show that Ann Arbor has more than seven times as many officers per violent crime as Flint does.

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John Ciorciari quoted in Time about uptick in violence in Thai-Cambodian border dispute

Monday, April 25, 2011

John Ciorciari was quoted in a Time article called "Deadly Clashes as Thai-Cambodian Temple Tensions Reignite." The article discusses a new series of violent clashes that have erupted around the Preah Vihear Hindu temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Susan M. Dynarski makes recommendations for federal Pell Grant reform

Monday, April 18, 2011

Susan M. Dynarski weighed in on the Pell Grant debate by signing a letter with recommendations for how Congress, in an effort to reduce the federal budget, might wisely cut Pell funding.

The letter was sent to the president of The College Board from seven economists specializing in higher education, including Dynarski, who are already conducting a comprehensive analysis of the Pell Grant system. Acknowledging that Congress will likely need to modify the budget before their research is complete, this letter provides insight into the researchers' current thoughts and offers five short-term policy suggestions on how funding can be cut without jeopardizing the program's key goals.

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Ford School Green Clean Day encourages reuse, recycling

Friday, April 15, 2011

On the last day of the U-M's spring break, while the building was still quiet, 31 Ford School staff and faculty members donned their comfy shoes and readied their cleaning supplies for the school's first Green Clean Day.

The purpose of the Green Clean Day was to give people a chance to clean and organize their offices with an eye toward reusing and recycling old or unused items. A "reuse" room was established so participants could turn over extra office supplies and "shop" for items such as staplers, binders, and file folders.

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Ford School BA student Zachary Berlin is editor-in-chief of student-run magazine

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Ford School undergrad Zachary Berlin is editor-in-chief of Consider, a point-counterpoint publication that returned to campus after a two-year hiatus.

This student-run magazine was created in 1983 by students from Hillel to initiate dialogue in a short, four-page format. "The original idea was for it to be easy to read and accessible," Berlin told the University Record. "It exists now to encourage civil discourse on campus."

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U-M ranked a top Peace Corps' Fellows/USA Graduate School

Thursday, April 14, 2011

University of Michigan ranks No. 6 in the nation as a Peace Corps Fellows/USA school in the 2011 rankings of top Peace Corps' Master's International and Fellows/USA Graduate Schools. U-M has 25 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers currently enrolled in the Fellows/USA graduate program.

The Fellows/USA program provides returned Peace Corps volunteers with scholarships, academic credit, and stipends to earn an advanced degree after they complete their Peace Corps service, and the Peace Corps' Master's International program allows students to earn their graduate degree while serving in the Peace Corps. Fourteen of U-M's Fellows are MPP students at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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