Jody Schimmel Hyde, PhD, is a Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan (UM). She is a co-investigator and an associate director of the Health and Retirement Study. Dr. Schimmel Hyde’s research focuses on financial independence, employment, and public programs to support… Continue reading Jody Hyde
Research Theme: Economics
Wealth and Mobility Study (WAM)
Through secure, direct access to IRS tax records, WAM is finalizing the creation of measures of the income and wealth holdings of the entire U.S. population and their linking across generations, extending pioneering work by Raj Chetty and collaborators, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, and others. WAM will publicly release a large, granular set of… Continue reading Wealth and Mobility Study (WAM)
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
Academic researchers, policy practitioners, and the general public alike have come to depend on indicators of democracy such as the Freedom House and Polity indexes. Such indicators are used to trace waves of democracy, educate students about world politics, test theories about the causes and consequences of democracy, allocate foreign aid, assess efforts to promote… Continue reading Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
RAPID: Quasi-Experiment on the Effect of Disaster-induced Displacement
This project examines the political consequences of Hurricane Harvey by studying post-Harvey migration patterns as an event with serious political and economic consequences. This framework examines variations in the decision of displaced individuals to move to different areas and how this affects their associated experience. Researchers also examine how people’s political attitudes change in response… Continue reading RAPID: Quasi-Experiment on the Effect of Disaster-induced Displacement
Expanding the Industries of Ideas: Understanding the link between research investments, jobs, and skills
The immediate goal of the project is to identify what timely, local, actionable information tools can measure and describe the impact of NSF/TIP investments in critical and emerging technologies. The focus is documenting the impact of investments in Artificial Intelligence on jobs and skills so that stakeholder communities can proactively support the creation of high-wage,… Continue reading Expanding the Industries of Ideas: Understanding the link between research investments, jobs, and skills
Breakthroughs in science: The role of funding approaches and investment balance across Stokes’ quadrants
This project examines whether and how different models for funding and organizing research may relate to the disruptiveness of science. We pay special attention to an innovative model introduced by DARPA, as described by Dugan and Kaigham in 2013 and 2022, which is built on three key principles:
Dincecco,Mark
Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research examines the process of political and economic development both historically and today, with a focus on the drivers of effective governance and its implications for economic prosperity. Dincecco has published numerous articles in leading journals across both political science and economics.… Continue reading Dincecco,Mark
Crossley,Thomas Fraser
Thomas (Tom) Crossley is Research Professor and Director of the Panel Study for Income Dynamics (PSID). Professor Crossley’s research interests include household behavior (particularly consumption and saving behavior), financial security, and living standards; the design, collection and analysis of survey data; and economic measurement more broadly.
Re-Engineering Statistics using Economic Transactions (RESET)
This project aims to provide the architecture for re-engineering official economic statistics — literally to build key measurements such as GDP and consumer inflation from the ground up. The new measurement architecture offers internally consistent real output and inflation measures that adjust for product turnover and product quality change at scale. It builds up measures… Continue reading Re-Engineering Statistics using Economic Transactions (RESET)
Mobilizing Social Assets for Productive Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Tanzania
Building on research and data from the “Transformations in Poverty and Property Rights in Rural Tanzania” project (2009-present), the key objectives of this study are to: Strengthen understanding of the types of social assets that can advance productive uses of renewable energy in rural Tanzania; Enhance capacity in regional universities for assessment of village-based social assets that… Continue reading Mobilizing Social Assets for Productive Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Tanzania