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Reversal of Fortunes: Low Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s… This paper offers new empirical evidence about the prospects of lower-income, US urban neighbourhoods …
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Specialization in Relational Reasoning: The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Nonsocial Inferences… cognitive mechanisms that facilitate inferences about social relations. Consistent with this view, in …
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Bribery or just desserts? Evidence on the influence of Congressional reproductive policy voting patterns on PAC contributions from exogenous variation in the sex mix of legislator offspring… and legislators’ voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a …
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Health in Hong Kong: An International Perspective… are too broad, however, to draw useful inferences about the performance of Hong Kong’s health care system, let …
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Recent Trends in the Availability and Affordability of Housing in New York City… - from affordable housing advocates to businesses worried about their workforce - are increasingly concerned that …
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Running on Empty: The Operating Reserves of US Nonprofit Organizations… the presence of fiscal shocks. We know surprisingly little about why nonprofits might save operating reserves and what …
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Posts of Honor: How America's Corporate and Civic Leaders View Presidential Appointments… the “posts of honor” in the executive branch. Worried about the bold and fractious individuals who might be drawn …
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School Efficiency and Student Sub-groups: Is a Good School Good for Everyone?… for the other subgroups. There is no conclusive evidence about which school resources and characteristics are …
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School Finance Court Cases and Disparate Racial Impact: The Contribution of Statistical Analysis in New York… the Court's decision, and conclude with observations about the role of analysis in judicial decision making in …
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Intradistrict Equity of Public Education Resources and Performance… within many urban districts, it is important to learn about intradistrict distributions as well. The empirical work …
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An Intellectual History of Institutional Theory: Looking Back to Move Forward… and empirical approaches, along with a number of critiques about its coherence and impact. We address these critiques, …
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Problems and proposals summary… Working Group Problem 1: The pace of learning about how external assistance can better support improvements … the approach and for the planned dissemination of data about impact Proposals that build on the existing “closed” … data and evidence “at the frontier” to build insights about which aspects of PFM operational performance matter for …
Alumni In Action
Calvin Hadley… CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES? I’m the incoming assistant … authenticity to the world, and it gave me freedom to dream about a future position without the shackles of needing a big … both students. I cherish my time at Wagner as I learned about myself as well as about my ability to impact the world. …
News
The growth of cesarean delivery in China the focus of health policy discussion… of Peking University visited NYU Wagner on April 3 to talk about the growth of cesarean delivery in China, and the …
Alumni In Action
Chrissy Kiernan… have an amazing capstone experience. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? My position is the Chief …
Capstone Projects
A Comprehensive Financial Strategy to Ensure Continued Clinic Operations… adolescents, and adults. However, the clinics are losing about $1 million annually and are in danger of closing. HSVS …
Faculty Profile
Moschell Coffey… Mo Coffey is passionate about developing the capacities of the public service sector. …
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What Are the Financial Implications of Public Quality Disclosure? Evidence from New York City's Restaurant Food Safety Grading Policy… for public services. Restaurant grading makes information about food safety practices more readily available and may …
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Examining the Internal Validity and Statistical Precision of the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design by Comparison With a Randomized Experiment… an interrupted time series (ITS) design to test hypotheses about program effects, there are few empirical tests of the …
Capstone Projects
The Impact of the Strength of State Renewable Portfolio Standards on Wind Energy Development… Public concerns are growing in the United States about the impacts of fossil fuel-based energy. In recent …
Capstone Projects
Evaluation Plan and Implementation Strategy… a report that included a logic model, and information about best practices in outcome evaluation, program …
Capstone Projects
Laying the Groundwork for a New HIV/AIDS Public Awareness Campaign… that the general public is still uneducated and apathetic about HIV/AIDS. To assess the current status of the general …
Capstone Projects
Developing an Information Portal for NYCs Public and Non-Profit Sector… and external (PEST) analyses; 4) made recommendations about the directions City Limits should take to position …
Alumni In Action
Jacob Victory… you look at "healthcare reform today", he says, "it's all about reimbursements. No one is talking about how care is delivered. I'm focused on care delivery." … the healthcare world must "do these first and then talk about reimbursing providers." Although Victory thinks …