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Carpe Vitam: Leadership for Learning: Where Do We Go From Here?The Carpe Vitam: Leadership for Learning (LfL) initiative is an international project involving teams from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This initiative specifically focuses on the role of school …
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Carpe Vitam: Leadership for Learning: Where Do We Go From Here?The Carpe Vitam: Leadership for Learning (LfL) initiative is an international project involving teams from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This initiative specifically focuses on the role of school …
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Advocacy & Political Action SpecializationMobilize communities and coalitions to advocate for social change. …
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Urban Transformation Forum | Wednesday, November 13, 2019Urban Transformation Forum | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 …
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Improving HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy Development and Implementation at Indian BPO FirmsThe Global Business Coalition is a corporate membership organization helping corporations identify and implement programs within their businesses to address diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Many of these corporations utilize Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) …
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Welfare Reform, Family Support, and Child Development: Perspectives from Policy Analysis and Developmental PsychopathologyThis article explores the implications of recent welfare-related policy change for the well-being of children in low income families, and for research investigating child development processes and outcomes. It provides an overview of current …
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Improving Access to Healthy, Fresh Foods in East and Central HarlemThe NYC Food and Fitness Partnership is a taskforce comprised of members from several local organizations and city agencies dedicated to improving access to healthy food and increasing opportunities for physical activity and active living for all New …
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"Unpredictability, risks, and uncertainty for the working classes: Developments from South to North"Jonathan Morduch [Interview] …
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Primary Care and Avoidable Hospitalizations: Evidence from BrazilThis article provides evidence of the effectiveness of family-based, community-oriented primary healthcare programs on the reduction of ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations in Brazil. Between 1998 and 2002, expansions of the Family Health Program …
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Management and Leadership SpecializationLearn to craft and execute organizational strategies that respond to dynamic challenges and drive meaningful impact. …
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What Have We Learned from HUDs Moving to Opportunity Program?As the centerpiece of policymakers' efforts to "deconcentrate" poverty in urban America, the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) project gave roughly 4,600 volunteer families the chance to move out of public housing projects in deeply impoverished neighborhoods …
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Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab… For all collaboration inquiries, please fill out this form . …
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Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in BritainWhen administrative agencies are terminated, do they quietly fade from public view? On the one hand, the terminated agencies may have weak issue networks and agency reputations allowing them to lose public salience. On the other hand, strong issue …
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From self-sufficiency to personal and family sustainability: A new paradigm for social policyCurrent social policy that affects welfare recipients focuses on the concept of "self-sufficiency" where leaving welfare for work is the goal. While this approach has reduced welfare rolls, it has not necessarily helped low-income people improve their …
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Making its Second Investment, NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) Invests in Company that Teaches Girls to Code… immerse themselves in STEM. The investment was made in the form of a convertible note and on NIIF’s behalf by …
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Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Richard Buery in Conversation with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries… people , and an estimated one-third of Americans have some form of criminal record . From Jared Kushner, the Koch …
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Who Experiences Discrimination in Brazil? Evidence From a Large Metropolitan RegionIntroduction Perceived discrimination is related to poor health and has been offered as one explanation for the persistence of health inequalities in some societies. In this study, we explore the prevalence and correlates of perceived discrimination in a …
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The Hidden Regulations Behind Streets The suburban garage: The birthplace of Nirvana and the Ramones. The hallowed ground on which so many Silicon Valley behemoths got their starts. And, for the rest of us, the dark, dingy graveyard where we’ve abandoned countless lawn mowers, as-seen-on-tv …
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What do Americans want from government reform?What do Americans want from government reform? …
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PhD Student Wins Research Grant from The Horowitz Foundation for Social PolicyNYU Wagner student Robert Collinson has been awarded a $7,500 grant by The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for his continuing scholarship on “The Causes and Consequences of Residential Evictions: Evidence from New York City." Collinson is a PhD …
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Do benefits restrictions limit Medicaid acceptance in addiction treatment? Results from a national studyObjective To assess the relationship of restrictions on Medicaid benefits for addiction treatment to Medicaid acceptance among addiction treatment programs. Data sources We collected primary data from the 2013–2014 wave of the National Drug Abuse …
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Student Spaces AV GuideOpen the Zoom app on your laptop. Click the Home tab on the top left. Press the Share Screen button to share your laptop display with the room (it may take a few moments to connect). Zoom app for Desktop and Mobile devices You can also pair using the …
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Four NYU Wagner Alumni Named to 2025 City & State Bronx Power 100Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez (MPA 1993), Miguel Fuentes (MPA 1974), Lourdes Zapata (MPA 1992), and Thomas Brown (MPA 2000) were named to the 2025 City & State Bronx Power 100 , recognizing the borough’s leaders in business, policy, community engagement, and …
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What Can We Learn from Impact Assessments?This chapter introduces the basics of quantitative impact assessments. The context is microinsurance, but the lessons apply more broadly. The chapter covers seletion bias, control groups, randomization, statistical power, internal validity, and external …