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Beyond Normative Models and Development Trends: Strategic Design and Implementation of Decentralization in Developing CountriesThis paper considers recent thinking on and experience with decentralization and local government reform in developing countries, primarily from the perspective of national policy. The paper begins by reviewing why decentralization has re-emerged as an …
Faculty Profile
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 …
Capstone Projects
Improving the Infrastructure Climate in IndonesiaThe Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an independent US government agency, provides grants and assistance to countries that demonstrate a commitment to good governance, investments in people, and economic freedom. MCC engaged the Capstone team to …
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Not so Fast: The Realities of Impact InvestingAt the beginning of 2010, the Indian microfinance sector was a hotspot for impact investors. The promise of impact investing could be seen in the number of investors lining up to participate in the IPO of SKS Microfinance. SKS had ballooned from 603,000 …
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Symbolic Politics in the Information Age: The 1996 Republican Presidential Campaigns in CyberspaceThis paper traces the use of the World Wide Web as a medium of political communication during the 1996 American presidential campaigns. Beginning with the Republican campaigns’ use of the medium during the primary election season, a typology of uses of …
Alumni In Action
Amy FaustHow did your Wagner experience prepare you professionally for what you are doing today? The theoretical and practical training from Wagner was key to advancing my previous position in international development and pivoting to deeper work on design and …
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Management and Leadership SpecializationLearn to craft and execute organizational strategies that respond to dynamic challenges and drive meaningful impact. …
Stories
How a Wagner Associate Dean Helped Bring the AIDS Crisis to the Big ScreenDavid Schachter Reflects on Starring in the First Feature Film About the Disease After he filmed Buddies in 1985, David Schachter ’s life changed. But not in the way you might expect for a young actor who had just starred in a movie. Buddies was not …
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U.S. Ratification of the CRC and Reducing Child Poverty: Can We Get There from Here?If the United States finally ratifies the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), will it improve the country's to effectively combat child poverty and thereby improve child well-being? This article addresses this and related questions …
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Economics of Housing Market SegmentationOver the years, economists have debated the extent to which the assumption of a single housing market in a city or region is reasonable. Some have argued that in estimating housing prices, the housing market should be stratified into a series of separate …
Capstone Projects
DEVELOPING ARGUMENTS AND STRATEGIC MESSAGING TO KEEP PRIMARY ELECTIONS OPENOpen Primaries is a nonprofit organization with a mission to advocate for open and nonpartisan primary election systems, educate voters, counter efforts to impose closed primaries, and build local, state, and national coalitions. The organization engaged …
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Proposal GuidelinesFor proposal consideration, submit the following materials online at wagner.gallery@nyu.edu or via shared drive: High-resolution digital images of up to 30 samples of your artwork. Please consider wall dimensions and space limitations when making your …
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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 …
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Writing SupportTHE WAGNER WRITING CENTER All the best intentions and brilliant ideas in the world are for naught if they aren’t communicated clearly. In fact, in an era when think tanks have become content creators, public services use texts and tweets to help their …
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ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN NYC JAILSThe NYC Board of Correction (BOC) is a nine-person, non-judicial oversight board that regulates, monitors, and inspects NYC correctional facilities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the BOC modified its oversight model to document the public health crisis in …
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EVALUATING USERSHIP IN BUFFALO'S OLMSTED PARKThe Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) engaged the Capstone team to create a methodology to collect, analyze, and present data on park usership to better understand how many people are using its parks. The team reviewed case studies and literature …
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Practicing Networking Skills while Building an International Community with Wagner International Student Society (WISS)By Joshua Chun and Narihiro Tanaka On November 16, 2023, the Wagner International Student Society (WISS), in partnership with the Office of Career Services (OCS) and the Office of Alumni and Student Engagement hosted an international student networking …
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Policy Research: The Field DimensionField research, defined as an unstructured contact with public problems and programs, is essential to realistic policy research. Research linking governmental action to good outcomes is rare, because those who study government and those whose who analyze …
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Comparing Electronic Medical Record ImplementationPaper-based data collection methods are still common in health clinics around the world. Implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) has the potential to ensure more accurate data, reduce storage costs, and increase efficiency at these health clinics …
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Reports - ICISReports and White Papers J. Y.J. Chow, R. Zimmerman, S. Rath, B Liu, G Yoon August 2021. Urban Microtransit Cross-Sectional Study for Service Portfolio Design. Final Report New York, NY: NYU, C2Smart. …
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ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC OPINION FOLLOWING A TERRORIST ATTACK IN OHIOThough Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks make up only a small subset of terrorist events in the United States, they loom large in the public consciousness and receive extensive media attention. The team used a natural experiment to investigate the …
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Connecting Teachers Using Ed Tech via EdproconnectClassrooms have widely adopted educational technology (EdTech) as a means to offer more personalized learning. However, while there is a proliferation of solutions in the global ed tech market, which is estimated to reach $252 billion by 2020, little is …
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Improving Virtual Education in Nepali and Indian High SchoolsEk Kadam Aur, Hindi for “One Step Ahead,” is a nonprofit organization that provides education and health resources to economically disadvantaged children in India and Nepal. The client enlisted a Capstone team to help improve its virtual learning program, …