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News

Report finds gaps in access to career, technical ed programs

Feb 5, 2020

A new University of Michigan report detailing access to career and technical education programs in Michigan has found that while CTE courses are popular among high school students, there’s a gap in access to them. CTE courses prepare students to...

Report finds gaps in access to career, technical ed programs

Publication

Econ textbook study by Stevenson, Zlotnick highlights gender bias against women

Jan 19, 2018

New research conducted by Associate Professor of Public Policy Betsey Stevenson and Hanna Zlotnick (MPP ‘19) is highlighted in The Economist’s “How gender is (mis)represented in economics textbooks” and Inside Higher Ed’s “Gender Bias, by the...

Econ textbook study by Stevenson, Zlotnick highlights gender bias against women

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Gender gaps in STEM college major choices

Jun 22, 2016, 11:30 am-1:00 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

A presentation by Molly Hawkins, PhD candidate in economics

EPI Working papers

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

December 1, 2011

Susan Dynarski, Martha Bailey

We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. We find growing gaps between children from high- and...

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Janet Napolitano: Public service and politics

Jan 14, 2015 1:21:32

Janet Napolitano talks public service, politics and important moments in her life for the 2015 Citi Foundation lecture.