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A Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation System"The Education For Employment Foundation (EFE) works in the Middle East and North Africa to provide disadvantaged youth with skills to improve the economic future of both themselves and their countries. EFE accomplishes this objective by providing …
Capstone Projects
Citizens Committee for Children of New YorkCitizens Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a child advocacy organization that works to ensure that every child in New York City is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. In celebration of its 60th anniversary and in recognition of the pressing …
Capstone Projects
Citizens Committee for Children of New YorkCitizens Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a child advocacy organization that works to ensure that every child in New York City is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. In celebration of its 60th anniversary and in recognition of the pressing …
Capstone Projects
The Business of Child Care in Mississippi: Helping Providers Become More Efficient Through Improved Business PracticesThere are approximately 1,800 licensed child care providers in Mississippi. While some of these providers serve more affluent clients and/or receive federal funding from the Head Start and Early Head Start programs, many low income providers struggle to …
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NYU Abu Dhabi Bike Share and Supporting InfrastructureNew York University Abu Dhabi has enlisted a Capstone team to develop a set of recommendations to encourage non-motorized modes of transportation as viable and enjoyable mobility alternatives for students. NYU Abu Dhabi is in the process of planning both …
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Pathways to Politics: Analyzing Motivations and Enabling Factors for Women in Politics in Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshThe Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an area characterized by a complex social and political environment and located in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh. CHT has remained largely outside the mainstream of development assistance for more than 25 years …
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Envisioning the Future of the South Bronx WaterfrontThe South Bronx waterfront Capstone team examined the neighborhoods of Hunts Point and Port Morris and created a South Bronx Waterfront Improvement Plan. This plan reflects the initiative and energy that is driving the revitalization of the South Bronx. …
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Envisioning the Future of the South Bronx WaterfrontThe South Bronx waterfront Capstone team examined the neighborhoods of Hunts Point and Port Morris and created a South Bronx Waterfront Improvement Plan. This plan reflects the initiative and energy that is driving the revitalization of the South Bronx. …
Publication
The State of Scooter Sharing in United States CitiesScooter sharing, the temporary rental of motorized standing kick scooters, emerged in the Fall of 2017 as a last mile and short-distance travel mode. In cities across the United States, thousands of scooters were deployed virtually overnight. Electric …
Stories
Richard Buery Chosen as Public Service Fellow at NYU WagnerRichard Buery has been named a Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. In addition to leading New York City’s acclaimed Pre-K for All initiative, Buery is a dedicated member of the NYU Wagner community, currently completing his tenure as the school’s most …
News
NYU Wagner Recognizes Hundreds of Graduating Students at 2017 ConvocationNYU Wagner ushered hundreds of graduating students across the finish line at the 2017 Convocation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), marking what Dean Sherry Glied heralded as a “momentous achievement” in their public service careers. During their …
Publication
Use of Preventive Care Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance.The superior performance of HMOs in providing preventive care--both in the population at-large (Miller and Luft, 1994), and within the elderly Medicare population (Ballard et al., 1997; Potosky et al., 1998; Retchin and Brown, 1990)--may be due to the …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Recommends Book Co-authored by NYU Wagner Professor Jonathan MorduchFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently recommending Portfolios of the Poor , a groundbreaking book co-authored by NYU Wagner Professor of Public Policy and Economics Jonathan Morduch, for reading and discussion by the Facebook community. The …
Alumni In Action
Maha AlDhaheriHow did your Wagner experience prepare you professionally for what you are doing today? I specialized in MUP's International Development Planning, and a lot of the most important lessons that stuck with me were reflections from my NYU Wagner professors …
Alumni In Action
Sandra Goldstein“Urban planning and economic development are two of the most stimulating and intellectually satisfying types of work one can do,” says Sandy Goldstein (MS 1998). “And a business improvement district,” she adds, “is an incredible way of helping to create a …
News
Hayes Prize recognizes three recent NYU Wagner graduates for their High-Impact InitiativesThe Frederick O’Reilly Hayes Prize , established in 2005, is awarded annually to individuals relatively early in their careers in New York City government who have led outstanding, high-impact project work. At the 2019 awards ceremony, three NYU Wagner …
Publication
Microenterprise Development for Better Health OutcomesShowing that economic development and public health, often thought of as distinct, are both interdependent and dependent on social and political conditions, this book provides a new appreciation of the close relationship between microenterprise …
Publication
Birth Weight and Income: Interactions Across GenerationsThis paper attempts to answer a series of questions regarding the interaction of income and birth weight across generations. First, does the effect of the income of a mother during her pregnancy on her infant's birth weight depend on the family's birth …
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How Brazilian prosecutors enforce labor and environmental laws: The organizational basis of creative problem-solvingBrazil's 8,000 prosecutors sit at the crux of the country's legal system, deciding who gets indicted and sued for common crimes and a wide array of civil violations. In many cases, particularly those concerning the most recalcitrant labor and …
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The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life ChancesRecent research suggests that child well-being and subsequent status attainment are influenced not only by the duration of exposure to economic disadvantage during childhood, but also by the timing and sequencing of exposure. Unfortunately, traditional …
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A Report Card on New Yorks Infants, Toddlers, and their FamiliesThe New York Zero-to-Three Network (NYZTT) promotes the optimal development of young children, their families, their communities and the systems that serve them in the New York City region. The Capstone team was asked by NYZTT to create an advocacy tool …
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A Report Card on New Yorks Infants, Toddlers, and their FamiliesThe New York Zero-to-Three Network (NYZTT) promotes the optimal development of young children, their families, their communities and the systems that serve them in the New York City region. The Capstone team was asked by NYZTT to create an advocacy tool …
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Limited Equity Housing Programs in NYC: The Development of a Resource Guide for Community Board 10In the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City created an affordable program through which organized tenant associations could acquire their buildings through a cooperative ownership structure. There are over 1,100 of these limited equity cooperatives …
News
Nancy Pelosi Addresses NYU Wagner Graduates at 2016 ConvocationNYU Wagner enthusiastically honored 418 graduating students at the 2016 Convocation on May 17 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Resplendent in their academic attire amid a capacity audience of 2,000, the students—and their professors, faculty members, and …