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The Racialized Costs of “Traditional” Banking in Segregated America: Evidence from Entry-Level Checking AccountsA growing body of evidence shows that America’s racial geography shapes access to basic financial services (e.g. banking), highlighting a mechanism connecting segregation to economic vulnerability: spatially organized institutional marginalization.s While …
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#MyWagnerLife: Michael Czaczkes (MPA-PNP) TODAY! Follow student @urbanamerica87 for an exclusive "behind the scenes" look into life @NYUWagner #MyWagnerLife pic.twitter.com/wSQqFA9PHK — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) April 23, 2015 So excited to be participating next Thursday to share my …
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#MyWagnerLife: Erin Connell (MPA-PNP) TODAY! Follow @Erin_M_Connell for an exciting behind-the-scenes look at life as an @nyuwagner student. #MyWagnerLife pic.twitter.com/u1LFTaAvIf — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) April 11, 2016 Started Monday by submitting my application for @nyuwagner ’s …
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Class VisitsSit in on a Course Sit in on a course to experience the classroom, meet current students, and learn from NYU Wagner's dynamic faculty. Most classes are conveniently offered in the evening. Class visits are subject to availability and offered on a …
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Rashawn DavisWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I had a mentor, serving in local government, who attended Wagner and encouraged me to apply. He spoke highly of the school being a laboratory for a lot of cutting edge work around public policy, justice …
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Rethinking Poverty, Household Finance, and MicrofinanceHigh-frequency data show that the material condition of poverty is created by the interaction of insufficiency × instability × illiquidity. Reducing instability and/or illiquidity can thus reduce exposure to poverty even when average earning power …
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The Low Income Housing Tax Credit and Racial SegregationThis paper addresses a critical but almost unexamined aspect of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program — whether its use (and in particular, the siting of developments in high-poverty/high-minority neighborhoods), is associated with increased …
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Issues of Climate Change and Its Impacts on the Infrastructure in the Metro East Coast (MEC) Region of the USThe infrastructure of the Metro East Coast region (MEC, with New York City at its core) is the largest, oldest, densest, and busiest in the nation. It serves some 20 million people and built assets exceed $1 trillion. Currently there is considerable …
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Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial InequalityIn this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal …
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Jump-Starting Collaboration: The ABCD Initiative and the Provision of Child Development Services through Medicaid and CollaboratorsMany policy problems require governmental leaders to forge vast networks beyond their own hierarchical institutions. This essay explores the challenges of implementation in a networked institutional setting and incentives to induce coordination between …
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Sustainable neighbourhood development: Insights from Southern CaliforniaWe examine the diffusion of sustainable planning and design concepts into neighbourhood development projects, based on findings of a survey of planners in all 180 cities of five Southern California counties. Sustainable neighbourhood development has …
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How Neighborhoods Change: Entry, Exit, and Enhancement This paper examines whether the economic gains experienced by low-income neighborhoods in the 1990s followed patterns of classic gentrification (as frequently assumed) -- that is, through the in migration of higher income white, households, and out …
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Which 'Broken Windows' Matter? School, Neighborhood, and Family Characteristics Associated with Youth's Feelings of UnsafetyYoung people’s fears of victimization and feelings of unsafety constitute a serious and pervasive public health problem and appear to be associated with different factors than actual victimization. Our analysis of a population-based telephone survey of …
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Class VisitsSit in on a Course Sitting in on an NYU Wagner course virtually gives prospective and newly admitted students an opportunity to see first-hand an NYU classroom, interact with current students, and share in the knowledge of NYU Wagner's dynamic faculty. …
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In Knickman and Kovner (eds.) 2015. Health Care Delivery in the United States,Windows can sometimes be mirrors. A look at health systems abroad can enable us to develop a better understanding of our health system in the United States. An international perspective suggests that the United States has the most expensive health care …
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Nicolas Garcia CordobaHow would you describe your experience as an NYU Wagner student? My experience as a student at Wagner was fulfilling. Even though it was challenging at times, it prepared me well for my professional roles. The variety of courses and the quality of the …
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Adoption and Diffusion of Green Innovation in Brazil: Eco-packaging for Consumer Goods and Tracking of Cattle in the AmazonHow do innovative green technologies emerge and diffuse throughout an economy, and how can public policy affect this process? This paper draws from two case studies to reverse engineer how certain firms adopted green technologies in Brazil: (i) …
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Alumni Spotlight: Dan Suraci (MUP 2013)Name: Dan Suraci, AICP Program and Graduation: Master of Urban Planning, 2013 Current employment: Senior Consultant with TransPro Consulting “If you are going to test big ideas, there's nowhere better [to do that] than the most dynamic, complex and …
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What is ExemptAt the beginning of in the federal regulations, there is a list of categories of research that are exempt from the regulations. These include (but are not limited to): Research conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings, involving …
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Access to outpatient care in Manhattan and Paris: A tale of real change in two world citiesFrance's system of universal health insurance (UHi) offers more equitable access to outpatient care than the patchwork system in the U.S., which does not have a UHi system. We investigate the degree to which the implementation of the Patient Protection …
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Voices Unheard: Barriers to Expressing Dissatisfaction to Health PlansConsumers dissatisfied with their health plan can either "exit" (switch service providers) or "voice" (complain to the current provider). Policymakers' efforts to help consumers voice their dissatisfaction to health plans or external mediators have been …
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The Welfare State and Infant MortalityThis article seeks to understand the effects of welfare-state spending on infant mortality rates. Infant mortality was chosen for its importance as a social indicator and its putative sensitivity to state action over a short time span. Country …
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The Role of Strategic Attention Deployment in Development of Self-Regulation: Predicting Preschoolers' Delay of Gratification from Mother-Toddler Interactions.Toddlers' use of effective attention deployment strategies to cope with separation from the mother and with maternal behavior predicted the use of effective delay-of-gratification strategies at age 5, even though the contexts, measures, and manifest …
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Fiscal Federalism and Middle-Income Housing SubsidiesWhen only one in four low-income households receives a rent subsidy from the federal government, it seems patently unfair to spend scarce federal housing dollars to support households with higher incomes. Although moderate- and middle-income households …