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NYU Wagner Announces New Faculty MembersNYU Wagner is delighted to announce that our outstanding faculty will be enriched by the addition of a number of distinguished scholars with deep expertise and broad experience in critical policy areas. The new arrivals include eleven noted researchers, …
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High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Students’ Standardized Test PerformanceThis paper examines the effect of exposure to violent crime on students’ standardized test performance among a sample of students in New York City public schools. To identify the effect of exposure to community violence on children’s test scores, we …
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MicrofinanceMicrofinance has become a widely used tool to provide credit to areas and populations that traditionally lack access to conventional banking services. Originating as a poverty alleviation mechanism, microfinance has grown in scope and design as a larger …
Course
PADM-GP.2197
Taub Seminar: Sustaining Minority Communities - The Jewish CommunityWe enter any subject of investigation filled with learned viewpoints, opinions, and select facts that we choose to employ. This helps to make the task of uncovering what we mean by Jewish and Jewish community fraught with unusual difficulty. Whatever our …Webpage
About Walter StaffordA rigorous researcher; a man impassioned to strive for justice; a generous mentor and friend; and a gentle, modest, complex, and intellectual man—this was Walter W. Stafford. From academia to organizing to government to activism, and back again, Professor …
Stories
"We Can’t Stop Neighborhoods from Changing"Ingrid Gould Ellen, Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center, and Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU Wagner, is exploring the impact of rising rents in major cities of the U.S., including New York, where, according to a Furman …
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Furman Center Report and Forum Explore GentrificationThis month, the Furman Center, part of NYU Wagner and the School of Law, released its State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015 report. The report includes a "Focus on Gentrification” ( PDF ) that explores gentrification within the …
Publication
The environment in pediatric practice: a study of New York pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices towards children's environmental healthChronic diseases of environmental origin are a significant and increasing public health problem among the children of New York State, yet few resources exist to address this growing burden. To assess New York State pediatricians self-perceived competency …
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The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life ChancesSeven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know--challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into …
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NYU Arts and Culture Network (ACN)MISSION Formerly titled Student Network Exploring Arts & Culture (SNEAC), this student organization was formed in 2003 to promote discourse on cultural policy and arts management within NYU Wagner, as well as more broadly throughout NYU and across New …
Alumni In Action
Anu AshokHow would you describe your experience as a Wagner student? My experience at Wagner shaped me into the professional that I am today. Having gone straight from college into graduate school, I lacked certain skills such as memo writing, group project …
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HealthcareJob Searching Sites Health & Medical Career Center Hospital Careers National Council on Administrative Fellowships (NCAF) National Administrative Fellowship Centralized Application Service (NAFCAS) American College of Healthcare Executive (ACHE) Directory …
Capstone Projects
ENHANCING OBSTETRIC FISTULA CARE IN UGANDA: BEST PRACTICES AND
PREVENTATIVE MEASURESThe Uganda Village Project (UVP) is an organization dedicated to improving public health by implementing fistula repair, sexual reproductive health education, and water sanitation programs. UVP engaged a Capstone team to optimize its obstetric fistula …
Capstone Projects
ENHANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH FINANCE AND
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURECity Year New York is an education-focused nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to succeed. The nonprofit is a steering committee member of the Coalition for Community School Excellence …
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Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and EITC ParticipationGovernments and non-profits devote substantial resources to increasing take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) through educational outreach. We study a different approach: policies that encourage tax filing. In a large field experiment, we find …
Capstone Projects
Length of Stay and Early Mobilization of ICU patientsAs part of the mission to deliver the highest quality, safest and most compassionate care, the New York Presbyterian HERCULES or Hospital Efficiency, Revenue Cycle, Clinical Utilization, Length of Stay (LOS), and Enhanced Sourcing initiative has …
Faculty Profile
ChengHe GuanChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai, Global Network Assistant Professor, and Ph.D. Advisor at NYU Wagner. He is the founding co-director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) …
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What Enables Teams of Social Workers to be More Effective?Professor Erica Foldy explains how the characteristics of a social work team can enhance or hinder effectiveness. …
Capstone Projects
IMPROVING IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE SUMMER READING PROGRAMThe Queens Public Library (QPL) is one of the largest public libraries in the US and serves the most diverse borough in New York City. QPL strives to create a more vibrant, informed, cohesive, and empowered society by focusing on the values of inclusion, …
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Measuring School Performance Using Cost FunctionsThis chapter develops and explores the use of school-level cost functions for estimating school efficiency and differentiating between more- and less-efficient schools. Using data for elementary and middle schools in the state of Ohio, we explore a range …
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Measuring School Efficiency: Lessons from Economics, Implications for PracticeEstimating efficiency and productivity in education involves confronting and addressing a host of difficulties in measuring inputs and outputs, capturing environmental influences, compensating for data scarcity, and determining causality. Nevertheless, …
Capstone Projects
Women's Empowerment Program for Substance Abuse Recovery Fundación Ernesto Sabato has worked in Argentina since 2002 in the fields of culture, education, and social development. One of the Fundación’s most recent projects focused on the issue of substance abuse and its effects on women in the villas of Buenos …
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Panel Explores School-to-Prison PipelineOn November 4, Wagner Education Policy Students Association (WEPSA) brought forward an issue that has yet to make the political agenda. “From Behind Books to Behind Bars” brought together leading advocates against the school-to-prison pipeline, a complex …