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

Associate 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

Associate 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

Micah Baum

Predoctoral Research 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

Predoctoral Research 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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Alvin Christian

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Alvin Christian is a PhD student in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the economics of education, development economics, and gender equality. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at Bro...

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Kelcie Ferrara-Gerson

Predoctoral Research 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

Predoctoral Research 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

Predoctoral Research 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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Katie Laursen

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Katie Laursen 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 research assistan...

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Lindsay Leasor

Predoctoral Research 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

Predoctoral Research 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

Predoctoral Research 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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Joshua Skiles

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Josh Skiles 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. His research interests include the evaluation and design of policies and interventions in...

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Jennifer Trigger

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Jennifer Trigger 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 education policy, higher education finance, geographi...

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Tiffany Wu

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Tiffany Wu is a doctoral candidate in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology (CPEP) at the University of Michigan and is pursuing a dual master's degree in Statistics. Her research weaves machine learning, AI, causal inference, and psychome...

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Emilio Borghesan

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Emilio Borghesan is a labor economist who focuses on the economics of education. His current research examines college admissions policies, the transition between school and the labor market, and skill development during adolescence. He received his ...

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John Bound

George E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics and Director of Doctoral Admissions

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John Bound is George E. Johnson collegiate professor of economics, director of doctoral admissions at the University of Michigan. Dr. Bound is an empirically oriented labor economist. Much of Bound's research has focused on the effect of health on t...

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W. Carson Byrd

Associate Research Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher & Postsecondary Education

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Dr. W. Carson Byrd is an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher & Postsecondary Education. His research examines the mechanisms of racism within higher education and in broader society, racialization of science and knowled...