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Medicare Beneficiaries Living In Housing With Supportive Services Experienced Lower Hospital Use Than OthersThere is strong evidence that housing conditions affect population health, but evidence is limited on the extent to which housing with supportive social services can maintain population health and reduce the use of expensive hospital services. We examined …
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Master of Public Administration - Public & Nonprofit Management & PolicyMPA in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy Learn how to effectively address the most pressing issues of our time. “My time at Wagner supported my work in city government. Having previously worked at the federal and state government, it was an …
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Fundraising Assessment and Action PlanThe Asian American Film Lab (AAFL) works to promote gender and ethnic diversity in films and elevate the voices of underrepresented groups. Each year, AAFL hosts several activities that are critical to the organization’s fundraising goals, including its …
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BUILDING ADVOCACY AND FUNDRAISING CAPACITY FOR WOMEN-LED
ORGANIZATIONS IN COLOMBIACARE is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to ending global poverty. In 2022, CARE launched an innovative pilot that focused on capacity-sharing, learning, and grant-making for women-led organizations (WLOs) in four conflict-affected …
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Gender & Sexuality in U.S. Policy FormationThis graduate level course will provide an in-depth analysis of gender and sexuality policy in the United States. We will focus on the role that criminalization plays in this area, examining topics such abortion and regulation of intimate partner …Capstone Projects
Beyond Classroom Diversity: How Community Context Conditions Student Achievement in New York StateOver the past 30 years, an interesting phenomenon has taken shape in education systems in the United States: despite rising levels of national diversity, public schools have become increasingly racially segregated. While previous studies link greater …
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Power and Perspectives Not TakenFour experiments and a correlational study explored the relationship between power and perspective taking. In Experiment 1, participants primed with high power were more likely than those primed with low power to draw an E on their forehead in a …
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Microenterprise Development for Better Health OutcomesShowing that economic development and public health, often thought of as distinct, are both interdependent and dependent on social and political conditions, this book provides a new appreciation of the close relationship between microenterprise …
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A Room of One’s Own or A Room with a View? Housing and Educational StratificationThis study attempts to understand the role that housing plays in the system of social stratification. First, it generates a model of how housing outcomes are stratified along dimensions of socioeconomic status and race. Second, it asks what role housing …
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Birth Weight and Income: Interactions Across GenerationsThis paper attempts to answer a series of questions regarding the interaction of income and birth weight across generations. First, does the effect of the income of a mother during her pregnancy on her infant's birth weight depend on the family's birth …
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The Organization of Schooling and Adolescent DevelopmentInvesting in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities takes a theoretically exciting and socially critical view of human development and the power of context to shape positive outcomes. Co-editors Kenneth I. Maton, Cynthia J. Schellenbach, Bonnie J. …
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Auxiliary-task learning for geographic data with autoregressive embeddingsMachine learning is gaining popularity in a broad range of areas working with geographic data. Here, data often exhibit spatial effects, which can be difficult to learn for neural networks. We propose SXL, a method for embedding information on the …
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School Cost Accounting: What Do We Know and How Do We Get There?This paper describes a model for assessing and reporting schoollevel resources. State and local decision-makers have been seeking ways to obtain such information for more than a decade, but there is as yet no easy, accessible way to do so and no way to …
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Social and Environmental Dimensions of Cutting-Edge InfrastructuresGlobalization and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by …
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Garrett LucienGarrett Lucien is the Vice President of Programs and Training at Coro New York Leadership Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner. Garrett joined the Coro team in 2013. Since then he has been the lead Leadership …
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Sasha LaliteCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? As the Founder/CEO of Meta Viable Solutions, I offer Fractional COO consulting services as an outsourced part-time, interim or project-based basis. I am a dynamic and engaging leader, partner, and …
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Natasha Iskander's book "Does Skill Make Us Human?" draws accolades from American Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association (ASA) has recognized NYU Wagner Professor Natasha Iskander's book Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond with two awards. An in-depth look at migrant workers recruited to build the …
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Hallmarks of ResearchLeadership researchers use different methods to engage with leaders who are both consumers of leadership research and a key source of new knowledge. Beyond facilitating a more equal exchange between practitioners and researchers, collaborative learning …
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Operationalizing Code Blue for Subway OutreachFounded in 1971, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) is one of New York’s leading housing and homeless services providers. With its $68 million budget, BRC operates 27 programs designed to help clients achieve self-sufficiency. Last July, BRC contracted …
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Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-PresbyterianThe Resident identified areas of interest and organizational need and took on various projects working with the Vice-President of Operations, the Director of Marketing, the IT Site Director, Patient Care Directors and the Director of Support Services. …
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DOCUMENTING THE ROLE OF PEACEBUILDING IN POST-CONFLICT COMMUNITIESMercy Corps is a leading humanitarian and development organization with offices in more than 40 countries. Operating in some of the world's most complex and fragile environments, Mercy Corps works globally to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression …
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Understanding the Unintended Effects of Youth-Targeted Alcohol Control PoliciesAfter many studies conducted during the 1970s found that a lower drinking age had an effect upon the number of motor vehicle crashes involving teens, many stakeholders began to call for an increase in the minimum legal drinking age. While many states …
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Performance Improvement InitiativeNew York City Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, is comprised of eleven acute care hospitals, five long term care facilities, six diagnostic and treatment centers, and more than fifty …
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Cropsey Avenue - Gateway to Coney IslandNew York City's Economic Development Corporation (EDC) was charged by Mayor Bloomberg with designing and implementing an economic revitalization for Coney Island, Brooklyn. A Coney Island Strategic Plan was created which calls for enhanced entertainment …