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Welfare Reform in Philadelphia: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods… reform unfolded in Philadelphia. The study uses field research, state records, surveys and ethnographic interviews …
Capstone Projects
FINANCIAL AND POLICY ANALYSIS ON AVIATION BIOFUEL… Carbon War Room, a business unit of the nonprofit research and educational foundation Rocky Mountain Institute, …
Capstone Projects
Assessing and Improving EGA?s Efforts in Diversity and Inclusive Practices… to investigate best practices in the field. Based on this research, the final report includes recommendations on how …
Capstone Projects
Case Management and Systems Administration for a Complex Legal Services Program… in the field. The final report consisted of internal research findings, best practices of peer institutions, and …
Capstone Projects
Needs Assessment of East New York and Brownsville… as part of the application. The Capstone team conducted research about the demographic breakdown of the region, the …
Capstone Projects
Healthy Food Access in Underserved Urban Areas"The Capstone team studied the problems associated with a lack of access to healthy food in underserved urban neighborhoods, and how planners can help rectify the situation. Grocery stores and supermarkets are common in suburbs, but in many poor …
Capstone Projects
Improving the Supply Chain for PostDisaster Shelter Response in India and Pakistan… with organizations involved in disaster relief, and field research in India, including an assessment of posttsunami …
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Key success factors of community-level social enterprisesThe Hunger Project (THP) works with over 17,000 communities in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America to develop innovative means of poverty and hunger reduction. With a special focus on women’s empowerment and social enterprise, THP aims to effect change …
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The Influence of Point-of-Selection Menu Labeling in Fast Food Restaurants and Cafeterias on Food Orders and Consumption: A Review of the Literature. Obesity is a challenging public health problem that affects millions of Americans. Increasingly policy makers are seeking environmental and policy-based solutions to combat and prevent its serious health effects. Calorie labeling mandates, including the …
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Race/Ethnicity and Patient Confidence to Self-manage Cardiovascular Disease… prevalence and greater morbidity and mortality. Recent research has shown that several factors, including confidence …
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The Georgina and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Service Fellows Program… Finance focused on fiscal policy at NYU Wagner. As a research assistant at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Economic … United States. As an undergraduate student, JJ conducted research for think tanks such as the Center for an Urban … communities in the U.S., throughout undergrad, her research culminated in a senior thesis that investigates the …
Capstone Projects
Operationalizing Code Blue for Subway Outreach… data, examined Code Blue documents, and conducted industry research. The team’s final report sought to modify Code Blue …
Capstone Projects
The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth in the New York City Juvenile Justice System… the New York City juvenile justice system through literary research and interviews with government officials, lawyers, …
Capstone Projects
An Evaluation of the GOALS System… DJJ to evaluate the GOALS System. Through best practices research, DJJ and facility manager and staff interviews, and …
Capstone Projects
Sheltering and housing the homeless… with BRC’s finance team, and conducted background research on shelters and low-income housing in New York. The …
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Converging Evidence for Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Test Scores: An Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Observational Comparison… in the United States. A large body of nonexperimental research dating back to the Coleman Report in 1966 has … MTO experiment versus the larger body of nonexperimental research remains the topic of ongoing debate within the research and policy communities. In this chapter, we try to …
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The relationship of neighborhood built environment features and walking… Research on urban design and walking often emphasizes …
Faculty Profile
Jean Romulus… Wagner School of Public Service, he led a team of research consultants in examining the policies, operations, … and Nigeria. His team analyzed data to provide technical reports and recommendations on improving programs and …
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Online MHA Program Curriculum… by engaging in interactive discussions and informative research. 1.5 credits … their understanding of economic theory and empirical research in key areas of health economics and will learn to …
Capstone Projects
Enhancing Advocacy and Strengthening CoalitionThe Capstone team worked with the International Housing Coalition (IHC) to develop sustainable and strategic capacity building for the growing organization. With the shift of the U.S. economic landscape, cuts into the federal budget for foreign aid …
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Online Consumption and Mobility Practices: Crossing Views From Paris and Manhattan… The NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and 6t-research office have published the results of a large-scale … Rudin Center for Transportation's participation in this research was sponsored by C2SMART . Many thanks to …
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WSA Executive Board… in political science and economics, I’ve published research on Puerto Rico’s status debate and contributed …
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Mobility and the Metropolis… moving down the economic ladder as an adult. Other recent research examining mobility among metropolitan areas, … lower mobility. This report adds to the growing body of research as it examines economic mobility across 96 U.S. … begin to answer this question, Pew commissioned original research that, using three longitudinal data sets, measures …
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The WINGS Project: Modeling intervention effectiveness for high-risk women… protected sex for a heterogeneous group of women. Further research needs to examine how such skill training translates …