Impact of Consumer Holiday Spending
How will the economy affect holiday spending? Director of the Surveys of Consumers, Joanne Hsu, weighs in on the effects of inflation and supply chain issues for the holiday shopping season. Read the latest from the Surveys of Consumers.
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Faculty Profiles
ISR’s faculty experts conduct groundbreaking and wide-ranging social science research — representing more than 20 academic disciplines. Included below are two examples of the type of work being done by members of our team.
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Jowei Chen
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Associate Professor of Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
Jowei Chen’s research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies, and legislatures. He has studied how legislators’ pork-barreling strategies … more -
Catherine Asher
Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
Catherine Armstrong Asher is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Youth Policy Lab … more
Latest News
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November 28, 2022
High interest rates, stock market turmoil add to consumer worries
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, morganls@umich.edu Surveys of Consumers, 734-763-5224 ANN ARBOR—Consumer sentiment declined 5% below October, eroding about one-third of the Read more
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November 21, 2022
Insights Speaker Series recaps 2022 midterm elections with three presentations
Contact: Jon Meerdink (meerdink@umich.edu) ANN ARBOR — Three researchers with expertise in American politics weighed in on the 2022 midterm Read more
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November 17, 2022
Survey looks at faculty, staff, student sustainability behaviors
Contact: Jon Meerdink (meerdink@umich.edu) ANN ARBOR — Students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus are Read more
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November 14, 2022
ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
Contact: Tevah Platt, 734-660-4999 Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, morganls@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Read more
