Making an Impact with NYU Wagner

FOCUS AREAS

NYU Wagner alumni, faculty, and students focus their work in every area of public service.

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Focus Areas

Cities

Communication Skills

Data Science and Data Management

Education

Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability

Health Policy and Management

Inequality, Race, and Poverty

International Development and Humanitarian Action

Nonprofits and Government

Philanthropy and Fundraising

Program Evaluation

Social Justice and Democracy

Transportation

The Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy

The NYU Furman Center advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy.

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Financial Access Initiative

The Financial Access Initiative is a research center focused on exploring how financial services can better meet the needs and improve the lives of poor households.

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The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management

The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management explores challenges in transportation and infrastructure.

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Research and Publications

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Lessons Learned from the Buffalo Blizzard: Recommendations for Strengthening Preparedness and Recovery Efforts

Sarah Kaufman, Rae Zimmerman, Kaan Ozbay, Ashley Smith, Suvi Hynynen Lambson, Christina Curry, Edwin Jeng, Jingqin Gao, and Eren Kaval

Sterling Network NYC: A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power, & Imagining Leadership Otherwise

Report published by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation entitled: Sterling Network NYC: A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power, & Imagining Leadership Otherwise (June 2023)

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Exploiting discovered regression discontinuities to debias conditioned-on-observable estimators

Benjamin Jakubowski, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill

B. Jakubowski, S. Somanchi, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Exploiting discovered regression discontinuities to debias conditioned-on-observable estimators. Journal of Machine Learning Research 24(133): 1-57, 2023.

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Focus Areas

As the world's urban population grows rapidly, we are faced with increasing challenges—and opportunities.

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Storytelling is at the heart of inspiring change across industries, from public policy to nonprofit management.

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Strengthen your analytical skills and gain the tools to manage complex data environments across public policy and public service.

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Successfully educating our next generation is key to our success as a society. But how do we do it well?

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Environment and climate change pose some of the most deeply seated public policy dilemmas, and in turn imply fundamental challenges to creating and managing sustainable infrastructure.

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In today's complex healthcare system, we need to balance cost, quality, and access.

How do we address issues of inequality for today—and generations to come?

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Creating meaningful and sustainable impact in international development is complex, evolving, and nuanced.

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Now more than ever, we look to government to be innovative, effective, and forward-thinking.

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Philanthropic engagement, and its ability to create change, is essential for building capacity within public service fields.

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Staff in government agencies and nonprofit organizations often need to understand what works—whether policies are effective, or whether organizational changes are having their intended effect.

An unprecedented crisis challenges the social, political and economic achievements gained since World War II in liberal democratic systems.

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Transportation is key to quality of life, but growing cities create growing challenges that we must address.

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Centers & Initiatives