The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
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All presentations take place from 12:30-2:00PM. in the Rudin conference room on the 2nd floor of the Puck Building A light lunch will be served at 12:15PM.
February 7 - Emily Owens, Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Professor Owens conducts research on government regulation of criminal activity, the relationship between policing and arrest rates, and how local government policies influence crime reporting. She will present a paper titled “Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development, Inequality, and Criminal Opportunity.”
February 14 - Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and also Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Professor Nestle’s research examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety, emphasizing the role of food marketing. She is the author of three prize-winning books. In 2013, she will publish the tenth anniversary edition of “Food Politics” and also “Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics”. Professor Nestle will present a paper titled, “Calories, Cartoons, and Big Soda: From Science to Public Policy.”
February 28 - Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She specializes on the comparative analysis of policymaking, implementation, and public management in developing countries, with particular reference to Latin America. Her most recent book is Jobs for the Boys: Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective (Harvard University Press 2012). She is also the author of Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance; Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform; among others.
March 14 - Michael Anderson, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Anderson’s research interests include the areas of environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference. In his work, he examines externalities in the context of transportation policy, with implications for energy usage and the environment. He also examines the impacts of health insurance and health promoting behaviors.
April 18 - Robert Inman, Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of Business. Prof. Inman is an Associate Editor of the journal Regional Science and Urban Economics. He is the editor of three books, The Economics of Public Services (Macmillan Publishing), Managing the Service Economy (Cambridge University Press), and Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America (Princeton University Press). His research interests include political economy, public finance, and the design and impact of fiscal policies with an emphasis on fiscal federalism.
May 2 - Double-header: Jackie Begley, PhD candidate at NYU-Wagner. Jackie's research and teaching interests are in housing policy, urban policy, urban economics, real estate finance, community development, and applied statistics and econometrics. Jessica Boccardo, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at NYU-Wagner. Her research focuses on understanding the experiences that students have inside their schools, moving beyond academic outcomes. She will present a paper titled, “Towards a broader understanding of learning: Exploring the determinants of non-academic outcomes New York City and Mexican high schools.”
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