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Christina Weiland

I lead a longstanding research-practice partnership with the Boston Public School Department of Early Childhood in which we strive to research a tool for building strong programs (and not just grading them). Currently, we are following four cohorts of children into late elementary and middle school who experienced the Boston program. Another team and I ...

William Axinn

Dr. Axinn is a Professor of survey research, population studies, sociology, and public policy at the University of Michigan. Axinn is a social demographer studying community, intergenerational, and social psychological influences on marriage, childbearing, reproductive health, mental health, and the natural environment. He is the former director of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, which has an ...

Devin Judge-Lord

My work employs a range of methods, with particular contributions in the field of text analysis. By building large open-source datasets and methods to analyze large volumes of political texts, I aim to expand the aspects of policymaking that are open to systematic study. Primarily, I develop methods for integrating human coding of texts with ...

Jenna Bednar

Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan.  She has been a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute since 2011 and an annual visitor since 1995.  Her research focuses on how collective action builds social goods and the role that institutions play in making that collaboration ...

Ben Green

Ben studies the social and political impacts of government algorithms. This work falls into several categories. First, evaluating how people make decisions in collaboration with algorithms. This work involves developing machine learning algorithms and studying how people use them in public sector prediction and decision settings. Second, studying the ethical and political implications of government ...

Kevin Stange

Prof. Stange’s research uses population administrative education and labor market data to understand, evaluate and improve education, employment, and economic policy. Much of the work involves analyzing millions of course-taking and transcript records for college students, whether they be at a single institution, a handful of institutions, or all institutions in several states. This data ...

Catherine Hausman

Catherine H. Hausman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She uses causal inference, related statistical methods, and microeconomic modeling to answer questions at the intersection of energy markets, environmental quality, climate change, and public policy. Recent projects have looked at ...

Amanda Kowalski

Professor Kowalski’s recent research analyzes experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who stand to benefit from them the most. Her research has also explored the impact of previous Medicaid expansions, the Affordable Care Act, the Massachusetts health reform of 2006, and employer-sponsored ...

Jeffrey Morenoff

Jeffrey D. Morenoff is a professor of sociology, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. He is also director of the ISR Population Studies Center. Professor Morenoff’s research interests include neighborhood environments, inequality, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, ...

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William Axinn

Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Jenna Bednar

Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Ben Green

Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Robert Hampshire

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering

Catherine Hausman

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Devin Judge-Lord

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Amanda Kowalski

Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy; Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Brian P. McCall

Professor of Education, Marsal Family School of Education

Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Jeffrey Morenoff

Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy