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Best Practices for Business Capacity Building in the New York City Childcare Sector"The Capstone team was engaged to further the Low Income Investment Fund's (LIIF) goals to provide capacity building services to community based childcare providers serving lowincome children in New York City. The team's work was performed in the …
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Maps Expand Asthma Hazards Awareness: GIS Helps Policy Makers See Where Childhood Asthma, Schools, and Pollution Sources CollideThe South Bronx, New York, has one of the highest asthma rates among school-age children in the United States. Since children spend significant parts of their day at school, an understanding of where schools are located in relation to environmental health …
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Event Recap: Wagner Philanthropy Presents: Careers in FundraisingWritten by Byron Bao On November 13, 2025, NYU Wagner’s Office of Career Services and Wagner Philanthropy hosted a Careers in Fundraising Panel to discuss the useful strategies and tactics that can be applied to today’s complicated funding atmospheres. …
Alumni In Action
Leda BloomfieldWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to find an urban planning school that connected planning to policy and to real people. I received traditional urban planning training, as well as non-traditional hands-on training in financial …
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"Microfinance"Microfinance has become a widely used tool to provide credit to areas and populations that traditionally lack access to conventional banking services. Originating as a poverty alleviation mechanism, microfinance has grown in scope and design as a larger …
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The Strategy of Global Public GoodsIncreasingly international institutions like the United Nations and the World Bank are redefining their missions in terms of global public goods provision. Global public goods have benefits that spill across national borders, and priorities include …
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Alumni In Action
Simone ShaheenPlease describe what you were doing before you came to NYU Wagner? Prior to Wagner, I worked on microfinance projects in emerging markets in East Africa. In an institutional partnerships role, I supported the first-ever Development Impact Bond (DIB) aimed …
Capstone Projects
Toward Sustainable TransportationThe Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) works to promote sustainable and equitable transportation around the world. The ITDP enlisted the help of a Capstone team to assist in its effort to creatively advocate for sustainable …
Faculty Profile
Jenny DorenJenny Doren, M.B.A., M.S., is an Adjunct Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Storytelling has been a constant in Jenny’s career, which began in television news and evolved into executive …
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Using cross-curricular, problem-based learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communitiesThis article describes the use of problem-based learning to teach students about the scope and consequences of urban poverty through an innovative cross-curricular project. We illustrate the process, goals, and tasks of the Community Assessment Project, …
Capstone Projects
EXAMINING DIVERSITY AND HEALTH INEQUITY AND IMPLEMENTING BEST PRACTICESFounded in 1983, SPM Marketing & Communications (SPM) is a healthcare brand consultancy and integrated marketing communications firm that has partnered with more than 300 organizations in 40 states to help establish meaningful brand strategies and deliver …
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Adoption of evidence-based clinical innovations: The case of buprenorphine use by opioid treatment programs.This article examines changes from 2005 to 2011 in the use of an evidence-based clinical innovation, buprenorphine use, among a nationally representative sample of opioid treatment programs and identifies characteristics associated with its adoption. We …
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The Role of Matched Controls In Building An Evidence Base For Hospital Avoidance Schemes: A Retrospective EvaluationObjective To test whether two hospital-avoidance interventions altered rates of hospital use: “intermediate care” and “integrated care teams.” Data Sources/Study Setting Linked administrative data for England covering the period 2004 to 2009. Study Design …
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Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Urbanization PredictionsWith the availability of computational resources, geographical information systems, and remote sensing data, urban growth modeling has become a viable tool for predicting urbanization of cities and towns, regions, and nations around the world. This …
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5 takeaways: What Americans want from government reformAs 2021 comes to a close, President Biden can point to some achievements and plenty of obstacles in his bigger government, more services agenda. NYU Wagner Professor Paul Light’s new GovLab analysis suggests that Biden must take action toward government …
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MUP Public InformationPAB Criterion 1D/Public Information The Planning Accreditation Board requires this information be posted for the Master of Urban Planning program. Student Achievement One goal of NYU Wagner’s Master of Urban Planning (MUP) Program is to prepare students …
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Did case-based payment influence surgical readmission rates in France? A retrospective studyOBJECTIVES: To determine whether implementation of a case-based payment system changed all-cause readmission rates in the 30 days following discharge after surgery, we analysed all surgical procedures performed in all hospitals in France before …
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Social Entrepreneurship and InnovationThis course provides an in-depth exploration of social entrepreneurship and innovation as a set of promising pathways to drive social change across sectors using a systems-led approach. Students will delve into understanding complex social and …Publication
The CBO’s Crystal Ball: How Well Did It Forecast the Effects of the Affordable Care Act?The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency of Congress, made official projections of the Affordable Care Act’s impact on insurance coverage rates and the costs of providing subsidies to consumers purchasing health plans in the insurance …
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Prostate Specific Antigen at the Initial Diagnosis of Metastasis to Bone in Patients After Radical ProstatectomyPurpose : Among men with biochemical progression after radical prostatectomy little is known about prostate specific antigen at the time of metastasis to bone in hormone naïve patients. This information would be useful in determining when to initiate …
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NYU Wagner honors 375 graduating students at 2018 ConvocationIn a time when, as Dean Sherry Glied put it, “well-funded propaganda machines pump out click-bait headlines, and partisans of all stripes shout ‘fake news!,’” the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU proudly heralded the success of …
Capstone Projects
Mounting Municipal Pension Liabilities: Do They Affect the Cost of Borrowing?Public pension systems are integral components of state and local government finance, but the funding of these systems is emerging as a major fiscal challenge in cities across the United States. The growth rate of financial obligations across public …
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Experience Goods and Expectational Traps: Bounded Rationality and Consumer Behavior in Markets for Medical CareSchlesinger, M., Stuckler, D. & Elbel, B. …