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Capstone Projects
Assessing the Efficacy of Health Research as a Development Strategy within Poverty Reduction Strategy PapersIn 1999, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Strategy Reduction Paper (PRSP) process as a requirement for developing countries to receive concessional assistance. This research project sought to explore whether PRSPs …
Capstone Projects
Assessing the Efficacy of Health Research as a Development Strategy within Poverty Reduction Strategy PapersIn 1999, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Strategy Reduction Paper (PRSP) process as a requirement for developing countries to receive concessional assistance. This research project sought to explore whether PRSPs …
Capstone Projects
Employment Retention for Formerly-Incarcerated IndividualsCEO provides employment placement and retention services to newly released, formerly-incarcerated individuals. Historically, such programs focused on job placement as the desirable outcome. However, a recent shift in emphasis to job retention requires …
Capstone Projects
Assessing Health Care Priorities in C?te d'IvoireThe primary focus of this project was to help the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) identify and assess the health care priorities of national and local governments, the Methodist Church, and other key actors in C?te d?Ivoire. In particular, …
Capstone Projects
Enhancing Advocacy and Strengthening CoalitionThe Capstone team worked with the International Housing Coalition (IHC) to develop sustainable and strategic capacity building for the growing organization. With the shift of the U.S. economic landscape, cuts into the federal budget for foreign aid …
Capstone Projects
Palladia Supportive Housing: A Family Reunification StorySeveral recent federal, state and city policy changes have added to existing challenges facing recovering substance abusers who are trying to reunify with their children. Those changes include new family reunification laws, conflicting housing and social …
Capstone Projects
Palladia Supportive Housing: A Family Reunification StorySeveral recent federal, state and city policy changes have added to existing challenges facing recovering substance abusers who are trying to reunify with their children. Those changes include new family reunification laws, conflicting housing and social …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Mahima Sharda (MPA 2022)Where do you work? I currently work at Dasra, a philanthropic consultancy based in Mumbai, India. Describe your current job. In my role at Dasra, I contribute to the Research and Insights team, specializing in conducting comprehensive research and …
Faculty Profile
Natasha IskanderNatasha N. Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018)For the past year, Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018) has been working on his upcoming book Teaching Between the Lines , which focuses on the role of youth development organizations in revealing the “hidden curriculum.” Teaching Between the Lines explores …
News
Six Wagner students and their rising startups chosen to enter NYU Entrepreneurial Institute acceleratorSix NYU Wagner students have been accepted into the J-Term Startup Sprint accelerator program run by the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute. The just-announced J-Term Startup Sprint class of 2019 includes two ventures generated by these students: KinNect: …
News
Mayor de Blasio Names Dean of NYU Wagner, Sherry Glied, As Special Advisor to Mental Health Policy PanelSherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, has been selected by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve as Special Advisor to the Community Services Board (CSB), an advisory panel. The 15-person CSB, which consists of leaders from the private, public, and …
News
NYU Wagner Gathering of Brazil Parliamentarians and Analysts Weighs Future of Amazon Rain ForestA panel discussion at NYU Wagner on Sept. 23 weighed the future of the imperiled Amazon rainforest at a particularly volatile moment in its history – with widespread burning and despoliation, and rising global concern. During the morning forum, a …
Alumni In Action
Yulia MarushevskaWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I was looking for new experiences and networks. I applied to NYU because of its long history of teaching, the multinational environment and the fact that it cooperated with such a strong European …
Publication
Accessibility of America’s Housing Stock: Analysis of the 2011 American Housing SurveyThe American Housing Survey (AHS) is the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States. Since 2009, AHS has included six core disability questions used in the American Community Survey. The questions address hearing, visual, cognitive, …
Publication
Why Finance MattersRoughly one-half of the world’s adults, about 2.5 billion people, have neither a bank account nor access to semiformal financial services such as “microcredit,” the growing practice in developing nations of providing small loans, typically less …
Publication
Economics, First Edition.Built from the ground up to focus on what matters to students in today’s high-tech, globalized world, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch’s Economics represents a new generation of products, optimized for digital delivery and available with the …
Alumni In Action
Vrunda VaghelaWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I was immediately impressed by the curriculum, which showed a balance of theory and practice in a tactile and dynamic environment. I appreciated that the Master of Urban Planning program was housed within the …
Publication
Public Opinion and Constitutional ControversyAmerican politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes is often inundated with public-opinion polls. Yet for all …
Publication
The WINGS Project: Modeling intervention effectiveness for high-risk womenThis study evaluates the effectiveness of two strategies�communication and condom skills training�for increasing condom-protected sex in a sample of 510 high-risk women ages 17 to 61. Baseline and 3- and 6-month postintervention interview data were …
Publication
A randomized trial of an education and support program for HIV infected individuals.Objectives : To assess the effectiveness of an intervention for providing information and support to HIV-positive donors on changes in their sexual behavior, and to assess which donor characteristics are predictive of behavior change. Design : Subjects …
Publication
The Role of Diabetes Mellitus in the Higher Prevalence of Tuberculosis Among HispanicsOBJECTIVES: This research studied the relative contribution of diabetes mellitus to the increased prevalence of tuberculosis in Hispanics. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted involving all 5290 discharges from civilian hospitals in California …
Publication
Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified MetropolisTwo landmark policy interventions to improve the lives of youth through neighborhood mobility—the Gautreaux program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiments in five cities—have produced conflicting results and have created a puzzle with …