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The Impact of Fiscal and Demographic Measures of School Quality: Evidence from New YorkHow do parents react to different types of information about school quality? This paper exploits New York state’s fiscal monitoring program to compare the effect of two different types of quality labels on school district outcomes: one reflecting budget …
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Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAPParticipants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail recertification are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevant. We find that later …
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DEFORESTATION DATA VISUALIZATIONCDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, is a nonprofit organization that manages the global disclosure system that companies and cities use to manage their environmental impacts. CDP tasked a Capstone team with transforming data from its …
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‘Big Push’ To Reduce Maternal Mortality In Uganda And Zambia Enhanced Health Systems But Lacked A Sustainability PlanIn the past decade, “big push” global health initiatives financed by international donors have aimed to rapidly reach ambitious health targets in low-income countries. The health system impacts of these efforts are infrequently assessed. Saving Mothers, …
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EXPLORING THE DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY OF K-12 SCHOOLSOlivia Technologies is an ed-tech company working to eliminate the need for internet connectivity and ensure that no child bears the burden of lacking internet access for their learning. The client engaged a Capstone team to understand the landscape of …
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MEASURING CLIMATE RESILIENCE DISPARITIES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN BELIZE CITYThe Belize Association of Planners (BAP) is a nonprofit professional planning organization committed to promoting social justice and sustainability in the natural and built environments. BAP enlisted a team to identify intersectional vulnerabilities …
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Curricular ResourcesBringing salmon back to the Columbia river: How Native American tribes are implementing a wa- tershed-wide plan. Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission. The Electronic Hallway and Research Center for Leadership in Action . By Jennifer Dodge and …
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Francis YuFrancis Yu (they/them) is a Bay Area native and has experience in community organizing, community development, and local government. They most recently served a role as a Housing Fellow for the New York City Housing Preservation and Development agency …
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NYU Wagner joins academic partnership to develop U.S. infrastructure solutionsNYU Wagner is among four graduate schools that are partnering to work to develop solutions to infrastructure challenges in America, especially as they relate to finance and delivery. This new formal academic network was forged by The Bond Dealers of …
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Toward More Open Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information LawsCain, Bruce E., Patrick J. Egan and Sergio Fabbrini. …
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Summer 2021 LEAD FellowsWe are thrilled to announce the LEAD Fellows for summer 2021. Fellows will be working at a variety of organizations involved in pro-democracy and voter access work. …
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Capstone Expo Highlights 79 Consulting and Research Projects in Public ServiceThe 2016 Capstone Expo brought hundreds of students, professors, and organizational leaders to the Rosenthal Pavilion in NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, where soon-to-graduate NYU Wagner students displayed a total of 79 poster-board summaries of …
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Does City-Subsidized, Owner-Occupied Housing Improve School Quality? Evidence from New YorkEllen, Ingrid, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Brian McCabe, and Colin Chellman …
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Non-Wagner Studentsrequesting enrollment in wagner courses Non-Wagner students are welcome to request enrollment in Wagner courses. If you wish to request enrollment, you must complete Wagner's cross-registration request form below. Registration requests are processed on a …
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Employment and Retirement Following a Late Career Job LossThe frequency of job loss among workers in late career has risen disproportionately in recent years. During the early 1980s, displacement rates for 55-64 year olds were the lowest of any age cohort but by the recession of the early 1990s, they had the …
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Significance of preoperative PSA velocity in men with low serum PSA and normal DREObjectives : A PSA velocity (PSAV) >0.35 ng/ml/year approximately 10–15 years prior to diagnosis is associated with a greater risk of lethal prostate cancer. Some have recommended that a PSAV >0.35 ng/ml/year should prompt a prostate biopsy in men with a …
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Professor Jacob William Faber Wins 40 For 40 Fellowship from APPAMNYU Wagner Assistant Professor of Public Service Jacob William Faber has been named as winner of a prestigious 40 For 40 Fellowship , given to outstanding early-career research professionals by the Association of Public Policy Analysis & Management …
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Falling Through the Cracks? The Distribution of ERAP Spending in New York StateThis analysis identifies and describes the ZIP Codes in New York City and a subsample of New York State that received lower and higher than expected ERAP applications to inform decisions about how to prioritize areas for other interventions and the …
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Innovating Divestment and Shareholder Engagement investment Strategies for Social ChangeTransform Finance is an investment network for asset owners that connects investors to community-based organizations (CBOs). Transform Finance serves marginalized communities and advises investors and CBOs on how to maximize the impact of their investment …
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Congressional Decisionmaking ProjectConference Video December Conference Video This C-SPAN site provides complete coverage of the December conference with former Senator Daschle, former Representative Frenzel, Organizational Performance Initiative Founder Dr. Paul Light, Colby Professor Dr. …
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Alex MalarchukAlex W. Malarchuk, M.S., is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has over forty years of experience in various hospital and academic health system settings that includes a …
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Depleting GovernmentThe federal government's "quiet crisis" of the 1980s has become the "deafening crisis" of the early twenty-first century. Virtually every measure of the state of the public service as envisioned by Alexander Hamilton has worsened over the past two …
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Involving Municipalities in the Delivery of Education Programs in Mexico GEMUN: An Experiment in Education DelegationCONAFE, a federal institution created in 1971, seeks to generate greater educational access and increase retention/achievements in marginalized localities in Mexico. In order to advance the cooperative federalism approach to public service delivery, …
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Ten-year Sustainability Master PlanCastle Village Owners, a five-building cooperative located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, is seeking to become a more environmentally sustainable campus. This objective was prompted by New York City’s Local Law 33 of 2018, which …