Directory | Education Policy Initiative

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Nicole Wagner Lam

Associate Director

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Nicole Wagner Lam is the Associate Director for the Education Policy Initiative. In her role, she provides executive leadership and administrative management, develops collaborative state and local partnerships, and supports the overall growth of the...

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Kevin Stange

Professor of Public Policy

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Kevin Stange is a professor of public policy and co-director of the Education Policy Initiative at the University of Michigan where he teaches graduate courses in higher education policy, economics, and quantitative methods. He is also a faculty rese...

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Christina Weiland

Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy and Professor of Education

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Christina Weiland is Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education and the Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where she is affiliated with the Educational Studies de...

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Michael Bastedo

Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies; Professor, School of Education

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Michael Bastedo has scholarly interests in the governance, politics, and organization of public higher education, with particular interests in stratification, college admissions, rankings, and low-income students. He received the Early Career Awa...

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Sarah Cohodes

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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Sarah Cohodes is an associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She uses quantitative causal inference methods to evaluate education policies...

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Walter Ecton

Assistant Professor, Marsal Family School of Education

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Dr. Walter Ecton, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, researches the intersections between high school, higher education, and the workforce, and the pathways students take...

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Brian A. Jacob

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Education

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Brian A. Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of economics at the Ford School, and is co-director of the Youth Policy Lab. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Brian came...

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Brian McCall

Professor of Education, Economics and Public Policy

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Brian McCall is a professor of education, economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, where he holds appointments at the School of Education, Department of Economics and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is a visiting fell...

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Katherine Michelmore

Professor of Public Policy

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Katherine Michelmore is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Michelmore is a leading scholar and educator on the social safety net, education policy, labor economics, and econ...

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Minseon Park

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

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Minseon Park is an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the University of Michigan. She is an applied microeconomist who studies educational and urban policies by combining reduced-form analysis and structural models. Min's research int...

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Matthew Ronfeldt

Professor and Faculty Associate

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Matt Ronfeldt seeks to understand how to improve teaching quality, particularly in schools and districts that serve marginalized students. His research sits at the intersection of educational practice and policy and focuses on teacher preparation, te...

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Chris Torres

Associate Professor, Marsal Family School of Education

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Chris Torres is an Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership in the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education. His research is focused on educator recruitment/retention and how school systems that incorporate school ch...

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Jeremy Wright-Kim

Assistant Professor, Marsal Family School of Education

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Jeremy Wright-Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, where he regularly teaches courses in finance and public policy. Utilizing a range of critical approaches and methodologies, his research e...

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Basit Zafar

Professor of Economics

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Basit Zafar is an applied microeconomist. His research is focused on labor economics, economics of education, and household finance. Specifically, his work seeks to understand how individuals make decisions under uncertainty. Professor Zafar's resea...

Fellows

Natalie May

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Natalie May is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Education Policy Institute, working on a research-practice partnership with the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Early Childhood Education. Her research interests include implementatio...

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Felicia Akerele

EPI Fellow

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Felicia Akerele is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. She is particularly interested in school-to-work and secondary-to-postsecondary transitions, with a focus on how human and social capital, instit...

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Micah Baum

EPI Fellow

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Micah Baum is a PhD student in Public Policy & Economics and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He studies how social policy affects children and young adults, with a particular interest in intergenerational mobility and political identity formation. P...

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Noa Benveniste

EPI Fellow

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Noa Benveniste is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, including education, labor, and public finance. She received her BA in Economics from Brandeis University in 2021. Befor...

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Jae Eun Choi

EPI Fellow

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Jae Eun Choi is a PhD student in Educational Studies at the Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on teacher policy, including teacher recruitment, preparation, licensure, and effectiveness. Prior to beginnin...

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Guan-Fu Chou

EPI Fellow

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Guan-Fu Chou is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and an EPI predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. His research interests include higher education finance, financial aid policy, and posts...

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Julius DiLorenzo

EPI Fellow

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Julius DiLorenzo is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. His research interests focus on selective college admissions with particular attention to organizational practices and policies. Prior to pursuing graduate studies...

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Kelcie Ferrara-Gerson

EPI Fellow

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Kelcie Ferrara-Gerson is an Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow pursuing a joint PhD in Economics and Public Policy. Her research interests include access to higher education, particularly as it relates to rising education costs, stude...

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Michelle C. García

EPI Fellow

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Michelle C. García is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include higher education policy and finance, particularly e...

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Kenneth Hofmeister

EPI Fellow

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Kenny Hofmeister is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Michigan. His research interests span the economics of education, labor economics, and econometrics. Prior to starting at Michigan, he worked as a research associate at the Universit...

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Emma LaGuardia

EPI Fellow

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Emma LaGuardia is a PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include labor economics, public economics, and the economics of education. In particular, she studies how alternative higher education pathways shape educational an...

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Katie Laursen Wallerstein

EPI Fellow

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Katie Laursen Wallerstein is a PhD student in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are primarily in the economics of education and labor economics. Before beginning graduate school, Katie worked as a resea...

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Lindsay Leasor

EPI Fellow

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Lindsay Leasor is a PhD candidate in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. She studies postsecondary finance, curriculum policy, and labor-market alignment using large-scale administrative data and tools in causal inference and machine lear...

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Katherine Leu

EPI Fellow

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Katherine Leu is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, as well as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research interests include higher education, social stratification, and the sociology of educa...

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Shekinah Lightner

EPI Fellow

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Shekinah Lightner is a joint PhD student in Public Policy and Political Science. Prior to coming to Michigan, she graduated with her B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Furman University in 2020. She is broadly interested in racial and ethni...

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Caryss McClave

EPI Fellow

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Caryss McClave is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, including education, labor, and industrial organization. She received her BS in Mathematics-Economics from Furman Univer...