News & Events

Find out more about Institute staff activities, publications, and events.

Morris Kleiner appointed to the Panel of Experts on "Occupational Licensing: Assessing State Policy and Practice"

May 18, 2017

Louis Jacobson presented a seminar on Improving College and Career Outcomes of Low-Performing High School Students

May 18, 2017

Brad Hershbein presented a paper on degrees of poverty at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting

May 3, 2017

Marta Lachowska and Marcus Dillender present papers at the 2017 SOLE Annual Conference

May 2, 2017

Paper by Marta Lachowska is published in the Journal of Human Resources

April 28, 2017

Dr. Edward Montgomery, former member of the Institute’s Research Advisory Group and coauthor with Institute staff, has been named the 9th president of Western Michigan University

April 25, 2017

Visiting scholar Helmut Mahringer presents a seminar on April 18

April 14, 2017

Economic Development Quarterly issues call for papers for a special issue on manufacturing growth and innovation in the United States

April 12, 2017

Randall Eberts moderates session at OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development

April 6, 2017

2016-2017 WMU Sicel Lecture Series "Immigration Policy Today" continues on April 5

March 28, 2017

Tim Bartik presents paper on the impact of pre-K programs at Fed research conference

March 21, 2017

Seminar features two papers on Latino-owned business employment

March 20, 2017

Timothy Bartik testifies before the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee on economic development incentives

March 15, 2017

Institute releases report on economic incentives awarded to business

March 7, 2017

Paper by Marcus Dillender appears in the Journal of Health Economics

February 28, 2017

Peter Orszag's recent BloomberView piece cites evidence from the Institute's new book on employee ownership

February 23, 2017

Brad Hershbein appears in Marketplace radio feature on unionized federal employees

February 10, 2017

Work by Susan Houseman cited in Wall Street Journal article on outsourcing

February 3, 2017

Institute staff contribute to new report on social insurance and inequality from the National Academy of Social Insurance

January 31, 2017

Tim Bartik quoted in Boston Globe article titled "The end of manly labor"

January 30, 2017