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The Decline in Community Banks and its Impact on Small Business LendingThe Decline in Community Banks and its Impact on Small Business Lending This study investigated whether the recent wave of acquisitions of community banks by large banks has impacted access to credit for small businesses. This study looked at the total …
Capstone Projects
The Decline in Community Banks and its Impact on Small Business LendingThe Decline in Community Banks and its Impact on Small Business Lending This study investigated whether the recent wave of acquisitions of community banks by large banks has impacted access to credit for small businesses. This study looked at the total …
Capstone Projects
Combating Payday Lending in MississippiPayday lenders can charge fees of $22 per $100 borrowed for a two-week short-term loan, which is the equivalent of a 572 annual percentage rate. Borrowers frequently cannot repay their original loan and have to take out additional loans, trapping the …
Publication
"Rethinking Poverty, Household Finance, and Microfinance"High-frequency data show that the material condition of poverty is created by the interaction of insufficiency × instability × illiquidity. Reducing instability and/or illiquidity can thus reduce exposure to poverty even when average earning power …
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New Executive Certificate in Data Literacy and Evidence BuildingDates: September 6, 2023 to November 9, 2023 Lecture: 12:00–1:00pm ET Group work: 1:00–2:00pm ET Commitment : 2 hours lecture, 2 hours group work per contact week (7 weeks total, Wednesdays and Thursdays); additional group presentation preparation time …
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Income Gains and Month-to-Month Income Volatility: Evidence from the US Financial DiariesThe US Financial Diaries track the daily finances of low and moderate-income households over a year. The households faced substantial swings in income from month to month. On average, they experienced 2.7 months when income fell more than 25 percent below …
Publication
How States Stand to Gain or Lose Federal Funds by Opting In or Out of the Medicaid ExpansionFollowing the Supreme Court's decision in 2012, state officials are now deciding whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. While the states' costs of participating in the Medicaid expansion have been at the forefront of this …
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Global Warming, Infrastructure, and Land Use in the Metropolitan New York Area: Prevention and ResponseThis paper focuses on infrastructure's vulnerability to sea level change associated with global warming. It also addresses the degree to which that infrastructure can be altered to decrease its vulnerability and the vulnerability of the land surrounding …
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Preparing Your ClassEach course at Wagner requires a course syllabus. All course syllabi will be posted on the web, and must be distributed on the first day of class. You must also submit your syllabus online by the end of the first week of class The syllabus is the major …
Capstone Projects
Land Tenure and Water/Sanitation Service Provision: Informal Settlements Around Buenos AiresThe metropolitan area around the city of Buenos Aires is largely being developed as informal settlements lacking legal land tenure and the provision of basic infrastructure services. With the privatization of public services in Argentina came the promise …
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Raising the Stakes: Experimental Evidence on the Endogeneity of Taxpayer MistakesRecent evidence suggests consumers fail to account for taxes that are excluded from a good’s displayed price. What is less understood is whether and how such “salience effects” depend on the magnitude of the tax. We conduct a laboratory shopping …
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Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American PoliticsAmericans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment – a phenomenon called “issue ownership.” Partisan Priorities …
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in BangladeshRapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology …
News
Three NYU Wagner Faculty Members Appointed to Participate in NYC Mayor-elect's Transition Process Three NYU Wagner faculty members have agreed to lend their public-policy expertise to Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ transition process. NYU Wagner's Dean and Professor of Public Service Sherry Glied was appointed to the transition's health …
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MUP - International Development Planning SpecializationWhen “the greater good” has global proportions, how do you balance the needs and values of all the people involved? We’ll help you answer that. Whether you’re interested in planning for the multinational cities of tomorrow or the developing economies of …
Stories
Information, Access, Mentorship: Three Key Components that Lead to Success for First-Generation College StudentsBy Liz Hensler (MPA-PNP), Manager of Corporate and Community Engagement, iMentor Growing up as a public high school student in semi-rural Pennsylvania, I saw firsthand the difference that information and support can make in college enrollment and …
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Group Cohesion without Group Mobilization: The Case of Lesbians, Gays, and BisexualsGroup identities that are chosen, rather than inherited, are often associated with cohesive political attitudes and behaviours. Conventional wisdom holds that this distinctiveness is generated by mobilization through processes such as intra-group contact …
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Wrapping it up in a person: Examining employment and earnings outcomes for Ph.D. recipientsIn evaluating research investments, it is important to establish whether the expertise gained by researchers in conducting their projects propagates into the broader economy. For eight universities, it was possible to combine data from the UMETRICS …
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Social Change Leadership PracticesErica Gabrielle Foldy, Laurie Goldman and Sonia Ospina. The Leadership Task of Prompting Cognitive Shifts: Shaping Perceptions of Issues and Constituencies to Achieve Public Service Goals. A practical five-page guide for nonprofit leaders. 2009. Dodge, J. …
Capstone Projects
Promoting Sustainable Urban Land Use, Governance, and Service Provision in Ho Chi Minh CityThe Capstone team was engaged to identify best practice examples in East and South Asia, and develop in-depth case studies to address metropolitan and regional strategic planning in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. The team reviewed academic and …
Faculty Profile
Scott MartinScott B. Martin (Ph.D., Columbia University) has taught regularly in the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs program since 2005 as well as in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University since 1998. He has held …
News
NYU Wagner student helps lead team to victory in 2018 NASPAA-Batten Simulation CompetitionNYU Wagner student Pooja Banerjee helped lead her team to victory at the regional level in the NASPAA-Batten Simulation Competition on Feb. 24 in New York City. Designed to spur experiential learning in public service education, the international …
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Academic Resources for International StudentsAlbert is NYU's student information system. As a reminder, this system is where you register for courses, look up your grades and transcripts, review finances and bursar bills, see holds on your account, and apply for graduation. It is important to review …
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How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban LandscapeThis chapter considers the structure of mortgage finance in the United States and its role in shaping patterns of homeownership, the nature of the housing stock, and the organization of residential activity. We start by providing some background on the …