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Unit Cost Reporting in New York City Government… SONYMA lacks needed information from these decisionmakers about the factors that drive their loan choices beyond its …
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The Other Danger...Scholasticism in Academic Research… Most members of the National Association of Scholars worry about the politicization of the university. Academia gives … as a philosophic enterprise. Here I speak mostly about scholasticism in political science, my own discipline, …
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Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion - Jonathan Morduch… economics at NYU Wagner, has co-edited a new collection about the world’s vast “unbanked” population. The book, … explore such topics as the complexity of surveying people about their use of financial services; evidence of the impact … co-editors include Robert Cull and Asli Demirglic-Kunt. About the Editors: Robert Cull is a Lead Economist in the …
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School Efficiency and Student Sub-groups: Is a Good School Good for Everyone?… for the other subgroups. There is no conclusive evidence about which school resources and characteristics are …
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Intradistrict Equity of Public Education Resources and Performance… within many urban districts, it is important to learn about intradistrict distributions as well. The empirical work …
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Why Finance Matters… Roughly one-half of the world’s adults, about 2.5 billion people, have neither a bank account nor …
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Elenie Martinez… to be impactful for me and my work. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? Vera’s new Advocacy and … panels and networking events, it helped me learn so much about city government and all the work that was being done …
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Residential Street Parking and Car OwnershipProblem, research strategy, and findings: Local governments’ minimum street-width standards may force developers to oversupply, and residents to pay excessively for, on-street parking in residential neighborhoods. Such oversupply is often presumed to …
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First-gen MPA student brings passion for positive change back to her roots… innovate and collaborate. “My vocabulary for how to talk about these issues has expanded tremendously,” she says. …
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Laying the Groundwork for a New HIV/AIDS Public Awareness Campaign… that the general public is still uneducated and apathetic about HIV/AIDS. To assess the current status of the general …
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High Schools and the Development of First-Generation College Students… even less likely to reach college than their peers. Only about one quarter of first-generation students enroll in …
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Identifying Practices that Increase Ethnic and Racial Diversity of Senior Management… of member organizations. Although much has been written about workplace diversity in general, little research has …
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Student Spotlight… of your fellow students. Take a look below to learn more about your community. These stories are brought to you by the …
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Health Degree Programs at NYU Wagner… a long and lasting impact on the health sector. Learn more about what makes each program unique. … NYU Law + NYU …
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#MyWagnerLife: María Paz Hermosilla (MPA-PNP)… forward to following @mphermosilla tomorrow as she tweets about #MyWagnerLife — Ashley Putnam (@AshleyAPutnam) March 4, … already! She's currently hanging at @NYULeslie talking about #entrepreneurship at NYU — Bridge at NYU Wagner … wagner friends @nyuwagner #whywagner "it is all about that change, not money" — Paulina Toro (@pauli_toro) …
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Women in Consulting Panel… own careers and sections of the industry. When asked about navigating "imposter syndrome" that often accompanies … During the open Q&A, student attendees asked questions about how to start their own consulting businesses, such as …
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Carolyn Gorman… made myself take a break from a topic I'm quite passionate about (mental illness policy), and step back to work at a new …
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At forum, mayors depict city government as locus of action… board member Eleanor Randolph, who is working on a book about former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, moderated … go to school with." “If you’re bringing in someone to talk about immigration, you might ask why it is not Jeff Flake, …
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Google Sites ePortfolioGoogle Sites ePortfolio Pilot Support for Urban Planning Students Your NYU Wagner ePortfolio consists of files stored in Google Drive, and a template designed for Google Sites. To access the ePortfolio site created for you, click under the “Sites” tab of …
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Ellyn CanfieldHow did your Wagner experience prepare you professionally for what you are doing today? Pretty much every job I've had since Wagner has required me to be fluent in a lot of areas - policy, operations, management. Wagner gave me a strong foundation in …
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Wagner welcomes its Summer 2023 Fellows… the event, students had the opportunity to network, share about their upcoming internship experiences, and build …
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Social Change LeadershipJennifer Dodge, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Angela Beard and Caitlin Murphy, February 2013. Beyond Foundation Funding: Revenue-Generating Strategies for Sustainable Social Change. Ospina, Sonia. Leadership for Social Change: Contributions for a Contemporary …
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The Merit and Reputation of an Administration: Presidential Appointees on the Appointments Process… leaders would enact. “There is nothing I am so anxious about as good nominations,” Thomas Jefferson wrote at the …
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Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems… Social Change tells us that we should be less concerned about the tools of agitation and more concerned about the disruption and replacement of the status quo. … change process and challenges us to question our beliefs about how it really works. … Light, Paul C. and and …