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IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING HOUSING ASSISTANCE STRATEGIES… struggling to find employment, addressing complex custody issues, or having their first experience with secular …
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Sesen Paulos… guided by case studies and active discourse on complex issues. What skills did you develop at NYU Wagner that are …
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Leadership in Action at WagnerLeadership in Action at Wagner is a virtual space that brings together a community of practice at NYU Wagner who study, mobilize, and develop effective leadership in public service. By providing public access to academic papers, reports, teaching …
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Public Policy Minor… and National Security Policymaking ECON-UA 208, Policy Issues in History of Economic Thought ECON-UA 227, Urban …
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Thinking About Children in Time.… Five main topics are addressed: conceptual and measurement issues associated with a dynamic view of child poverty; …
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Making Progress in Relating Values, Goals, and Outcomes in the Evaluation of Local Economic Development Policy… highlight important conceptual, technical, and procedural issues regarding the relationship between values, goals, and …
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Analysis of Selection Effects in New York City's Medicaid Managed Care PopulationIt is becoming increasingly apparent that over the next several years the majority of Medicaid patients in many states will become enrolled in managed care plans, some voluntarily, but most as the result of mandatory initiatives. An important issue …
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Following the Money: Using Expenditure Analysis as an Evaluation Tool… Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe issues arising in defining and operationalizing constructs …
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Banking The World… innovations as microfinance and mobile banking but also issues of data accuracy, impact assessment, risk mitigation, …
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The Accumulation of Nonprofit Profits: A Dynamic Analysis.… and overcomes several significant statistical estimation issues. The results suggest that nonprofits target profits …
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Bringing Information Technology to Infrastructure: A White Paper for a Research Agenda… IT has the potential to address many of the quality issues that infrastructure has faced, by providing detection …
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Measuring School Efficiency: What Have We Learned?School performance and efficiency measurement have taken center stage in much of the debate and research in education policy since at least the mid-1990s. Despite the clear theoretical and practical importance of understanding the ways in which school …
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A Survey of Approaches for Assessing and Managing the Risk of Extremes… identifying possible extreme events. We then discuss some issues related to risk assessment of extreme events, …
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Information and Farmers' Attitudes About Pesticides, Water Quality and Related Environmental Effects… the farm community may be more polarized on environmental issues than the general public. Farmers regard first-hand …
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Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and ResearchSchool performance and efficiency measurement have taken center stage in much of the debate and research in education policy since at least the mid-1990s. Despite the clear theoretical and practical importance of understanding the ways in which school …
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Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and PracticesGovernment and Not-for-Profit Accounting highlights the dynamic nature and constant evolution of the field and the intellectual challenges it presents. Designed to assist both preparers and potential users of financial reports, this book emphasizes …
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Creating a Citywide Planning Framework… working to build a progressive agenda centered on pressing issues—particularly the feminization of poverty, creating and …
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Examining Metropolitan Governance and Finance in Cairo and Manila… of the use, regulation, and taxation of land and related issues. The Lincoln Institute engaged the Capstone team to …
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MPA Student's Encounter with the Former President of Planned Parenthood… spoke with encyclopedic knowledge about hot-button social issues like the gender wage gap (spoiler: women get paid less … Even more impressive than her broad knowledge of social issues, however, was her emotional intelligence. She kept … political or social beliefs. No approach to social justice issues is without controversy, but the absence of a panacea …
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Estimating the Impact of Street Cuts on Pavement LongevityThe New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) works to provide safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods, and to maintain and enhance the transportation infrastructure. Pavement management is a key part of this …
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Affordable Homeownership in New York City… identify the academic and theoretical context of housing issues. Based on the data collected from affordable housing …
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An Interview-Based Case Study Analysis of UNEAD Electoral Assistance in Liberia and Nigeria… case study approach, the evaluation also highlighted some issues and brought forth recommendations that would impact …
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Evaluation Report of American Humanics and the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition… Nonprofit Sector Careers was launched to identify the core issues affecting the nonprofit workforce. Early steps taken …