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Water and Sanitation Management in Cuenca: How Ecuador's Third Largest City Employs Strategic Partnerships and Local Ownership to Deliver Services to its Booming PopulationThe purpose of this Capstone project was to create a case study on water and sanitation development in Cuenca Ecuador, based on loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the Cuencan water utility company called ETAPA. To evaluate these …
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Social Change Leadership… Center for Leadership in Action. Buckley, Tamara, Jonathan Walters, Larry Ferlazzo, Reverend Tyrone Hicks, Carmen … Center for Leadership in Action. Fine, Melinda, Jonathan Walters, and John Parvensky. 2005. Staying the course for the … Center for Leadership in Action. Valdés, Javier, Jonathan Walters, and Harold Mitchell. 2005. Cleaning up a community, …
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Segregation and the cost of money: Race, poverty, and the prevalence of alternative financial institutionsFaber, Jacob W. …
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PADM-GP.4506
Python Coding for Public PolicyAlternate title: "How to Use a Bit of Code to Do Things That Would Be Really Hard in Spreadsheets." Students will learn data analysis through the Python programming language — exploring, manipulating, visualizing, and interpreting open data to answer …Publication
Using behavioral economics to improve dietary intake: Alternatives to regulation, bans, and taxationMarie Bragg, Brian D. Elbel …
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Developing a Community Impact Assessment System for Short-Term Service-Learning ProgramsBreak Away, a nonprofit organization, supports the development of quality alternative break programs by providing training and information to over 170 universities and 500 nonprofit organizations and by promoting the Active Citizens movement. The …
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Navigating Uncertain Waters: Mortgage Lending in the Wake of the Great RecessionGerecke, S., with V. Been et al. …
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Alternative Service Delivery: Does Nonprofit Financing Influence State Tax Burden?We analyze panel data of U.S. states to determine whether nonprofit contribution and program service revenues are correlated with state tax burden. State tax burden is modeled as a function of (a) state tax policy, (b) nontax policy factors that affect …
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EXPANDING SENTENCING MITIGATION PROGRAMSThe Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) is a nonprofit agency that provides research, training, and direct services in the fields of criminal and juvenile justice and related human services. Since 1981, CCA has worked with attorneys and courts to …
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Shaping the Policy Agenda to Include Alternatives to Military Solutions to Al-Qaeda TerrorismIt is generally assumed that the only way for the US to address the threat of terrorism is to defeat it by military means, and that the US should not and cannot negotiate with terrorists (either because there are no issues to negotiate or terrorists are …
Capstone Projects
Shaping the Policy Agenda to Include Alternatives to Military Solutions to Al-Qaeda TerrorismIt is generally assumed that the only way for the US to address the threat of terror-ism is to defeat it by military means, and that the US should not and cannot negotiate-ate with terrorists (either because there are no issues to negotiate or terrorists …
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Analyzing a Public-Private Partnership for Resource Recovery and Reuse in GhanaThe International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a nonprofit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. A rising challenge is the depletion of agricultural resources from …
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Are hospitals “keeping up with the Joneses”?: Assessing the spatial and temporal diffusion of the surgical robotBackground : The surgical robot has been widely adopted in the United States in spite of its high cost and controversy surrounding its benefit. Some have suggested that a “medical arms race” influences technology adoption. We wanted to determine whether a …
Faculty Profile
Malcolm AraosMalcolm Araos is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Service at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Associated Faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies. His research examines the governance and politics of climate …
Capstone Projects
Alternative Approach to the Care of Chronically Ill Patients at the End of Life in the Intensive Care UnitChronically ill patients in the final six months of life spend on average more days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at New York University Hospitals Center (NYUHC) than nearly every highly ranked academic medical center within the United States. The …
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URPL-GP.2625
Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable CitiesThis class is about the infrastructure systems that make up the built environment of cities, and that can make cities more or less sustainable and equitable. As humans face concurrent crises of climate change and inequality, most of the earth’s population …Webpage
Executive MPA-MSWEMPA-MSW students can "double count" 6 credits between degrees. Students earn 59 credits toward the MSW (vs. 65 for the single-degree MSW) and 24 toward the MPA (vs. 30 for the single-degree EMPA program), for a total of 83 credits for both degrees. The …
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A network framework for dynamic models of urban food, energy and water systems (FEWS)Rae Zimmerman, Quanyan Zhu, Carolyn Dimitri …
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Estimating the Effect of a School-Based Water Intervention in NYC on Child BMI and ObesityA.E. Schwartz, M. Leardo, S. Aneja, B. Elbel …
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National Trends in the Utilization of Partial Nephrectomy Before and After the Establishment of AUA Guidelines for the Management of Renal MassesObjective To assess the impact of the American Urological Association (AUA) guidelines advocating partial nephrectomy for T1 tumors guidelines on the likelihood of undergoing partial nephrectomy. Materials and Methods We analyzed the Nationwide Inpatient …
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Does Participatory Budgeting Alter Public Spending? Evidence from New York CityThad Calabrese …
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Improving U.S. Housing Finance through Reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: A Framework for Evaluating AlternativesEllen, Ingrid and Mark Willis …
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An Alternative Approach to Addressing Selection into and out of Social Settings: Neighborhood Change and African American Children’s Economic OutcomesSharkey, Patrick. …
Capstone Projects
Investigation into the Energy Consumption Implications of Alternative Locations for Low-Income Housing Developments in South African Urban AreasThe University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, under the coordination of Professor Daniel Irurah, is conducting a cost-benefit analysis investigating energy consumption patterns related to low-income housing location in South Africa. The project is …