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Gender and the Publication Output of Graduate Students: A Case StudyWe examine gender differences among the six PhD student cohorts 2004-2009 at the California Institute of Technology using a new dataset that includes information on trainees and their advisors and enables us to construct detailed measures of teams at the …
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TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT INDEXThe office of Downtown Revitalization and Transit-Oriented Development at the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning (SCEDP) promotes the development, growth, and retention of industry clusters that facilitate job opportunities, …
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Do Food Stamp Asset Limits Hinder Household Saving?Many public benefits programs exclude people with more-than-minimal asset wealth in order to prevent individuals with substantial savings from relying on the government. In recent years, researchers and policymakers have grown concerned that asset limits …
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Laura Wherry Named Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Research Prize WinnerAssociate Professor Laura Wherry was awarded NYU Wagner’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Research Prize winner for the 2023–24 academic year. The prize, part of Wagner’s overall Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Access efforts, serves as an …
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Strategies to Engage a Wider ConstituencyTake Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation encourages young people to learn more about the workplace and potential future careers—working with schools, companies, and community organizations to make its signature programming a success. The Foundation …
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Advancing gender equality in Sierra Leone’s land sectorTransparency International (TI) is an international, non-governmental organization devoted to combating corruption. Currently, TI has a national chapter in Sierra Leone and is actively working to assess and mitigate the numerous risks involved in the …
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Gender-lens Investing: Empowering Female EntrepreneursFunding to female founders is staggeringly low, with research showing that female-led businesses received only 2.2% of global venture capital funding in 2018. Galvanized by that data, the all-female Capstone team developed a venture capital fund to …
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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGYPro Mujer supports low-income women in five Latin American countries by providing access to financial services, preventive health services, and education and business training. The organization aims to address the detrimental and pervasive effects of …
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Gender Disparities in the Juvenile Justice SystemThe Capstone team assisted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Legal Aid Society - Juvenile Rights Division (LASJRD) in determining whether there are gender disparities in the New York juvenile justice system. After a comprehensive …
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Gender Disparities in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease For Older Persons: A Comparative Analysis of National and City-Level DataBackground: Gender disparities in the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) have been extensively documented in studies from the United States. However, they have been less well studied in other countries and, to our knowledge, have not been …
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EMPOWERING WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ADVANCING GENDER LENS INVESTINGAccion Venture Lab (AVL) is a global early-stage investor in inclusive fintech startups. Over the last two years, AVL has held venture capital fundraising workshops and investor networking sessions with over 80 women fintech founders in 15 countries. The …
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Development and Evaluation of the US Healthy Food Diversity Index. Varied diets are diverse with respect to diet quality, and existing dietary variety indices do not capture this heterogeneity. We developed and evaluated the multidimensional US Healthy Food Diversity (HFD) index, which measures dietary variety, dietary …
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Revolutionizing Schedules: The Power of AI in Physician PracticesSince the early 2000s, artificial intelligence (AI) has raised concerns regarding its use in healthcare to manage vast amounts of patient data, ensure proper handling, and maintain robust security measures. Nevertheless, contemporary healthcare …
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MUP CurriculumFocus Area Courses Public Policy and Planning in New York Climate Economics Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities Planning for Emergencies and Disasters Water Sourcing and Climate Change Climate Policy and Politics Topics in Urban …
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Developing a Smart Cities Strategic Framework and IndexCiti Ventures is the innovation and venture capital team of Citigroup, a multinational investment banking and financial services corporation. Citi Ventures employs a discovery mindset to bring forth new ideas by exploring the startup landscape and …
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Forbes "30 Under 30" Honors Three From NYU Wagner Forbes Magazine has given high marks to three members of the NYU Wagner community – current student Kyleigh Russ and alumni Wemimo Abbey and Rebecca Fleischman– placing them on its 2020 “30 Under 30” list of outstanding up-and-coming professionals who …
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The Price of Female Headship: Gender, Inheritance, and Wealth Accumulation in the United StatesFemale-headed households in the United States suffer from lower levels of asset ownership than their male-headed counterparts. This gap remains after controlling for the lower incomes of female heads. What, then, produces the gender discrepancy in net …
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Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellowship2025 Saba Rouhani - NYU School of Global Public Health Developing a measure of relative opioid settlement spending on law enforcement and health 2023 Lauren Taylor - NYU Grossman School of Medicine Urban Public Hospitals and the Creation of Healthcare …
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Gender, sexual orientation, and adolescent HIV testing: A qualitative analysisUsing qualitative data, this article explored the circumstances leading to HIV testing among 59 HIV infected adolescents recruited from New York City HIV clinics. Results showed differences between the heterosexual women and the gay and bisexual men. Most …
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Seeing Power in Action: The Roles of Deliberation, Implementation, and Action in Inferences of PowerSix experiments investigate the hypothesis that social targets who display a greater action orientation are perceived as having more power (i.e., more control, less dependence, and more influence) than less action-oriented targets. I find evidence that …
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Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members’ evaluations of each other and the groupThe present research examined how a group's gender composition influences intragroup evaluations. Group members evaluated fellow group members and the group as a whole following a shared task. As predicted, no performance differences were found as a …
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Evaluating Gender-Based Violence Programs in Nigeria and the Central African RepublicMédecins du Monde (MdM) is an international movement of France- based activists who are campaigning to promote social change by providing access to healthcare and social services in crisis and conflict settings. MdM enlisted a Capstone team to evaluate …
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Creating Sustainable Solutions in Developing Countries through Gender EqualityAs a summer analyst within the Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan supported the analysis and research of the organization’s impact evaluation projects focusing on women's economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. “I was …