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Building a Sustainable Brooklyn Central YMCAThe YMCA of Greater New York, as part of its capital campaign to build or renovate facilities in the five boroughs, plans to expand the Brooklyn Central YMCA branch by opening a new site. The Capstone team was asked to advise the YMCA on how to proceed …
Stories
How WSA President David Aronov Plans to Build Community at NYU Wagnerby Gretha Suarez (MUP) Name: David Aronov (MPA-PNP) Hometown: Queens, NY Current Employment/Internship: Lead Organizer for NYC Census 2020 …
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Does Participatory Budgeting Alter Public Spending? Evidence from New York CityThad Calabrese …
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The Stains of Redlining: To build a better New York City, we must grapple honestly with the past.Jacob Faber …
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Do Housing Vouchers Improve Academic Performance?: Evidence from New York CityAmy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Ellen, Sarah A. Cordes, Keren M. Horn …
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Management Matters: Strengthening the Research Base to Help Improve Performance of Safety Net ProvidersIt is becoming increasingly apparent that some disparities in health outcomes for vulnerable populations relate to performance of providers. Based on analysis of Medicaid claims records, large differences in performance among primary care providers are …
Capstone Projects
Mapping and Quantifying Social Impact in the Handworker Economy Nest is a nonprofit organization that works with cross-sector collaborators to bring radical transparency, data-driven development, and fair market access to the informal economy of artisan handicrafts. Nest’s new Ethical Compliance certification works to …
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Using HUD Administrative Data to Estimate Success Rates and Search Durations for New Voucher RecipientsIngrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sarah Strochak …
News
"Portfolios of the Poor," co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Morduch, Helped Inspire a New App to Address Income Volatility: NY Times Magazine“Want A Steady Income? There’s an App for That,” a piece published Sunday, May 3, in The New York Times Magazine , focuses on a Silicon Valley app-in-development partly inspired by Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day , the …
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Analysis of primary care practitioner capacity for Medicaid managed care in New York City.Billings, J., Greene, J. & Mijanovich, T. …
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The Impact of Business Improvement Districts on Property Values: Evidence from New York CityEllen, Ingrid, Amy Ellen Schwartz and Ioan Voicu. …
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Discrepancies Between Ideal Characteristics of a Property Tax System and Current Practice in New YorkBerne, R. & Netzer, D. …
Capstone Projects
Determining Health Care Needs and Health Service Availability for the Chassidim of the Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn, NYUnited Jewish Organizations of Brooklyn (UJO) has been addressing the human service needs of Brooklyns Jewish community since 1967. Since scarce data is available which describes the health care needs of the Chassidic community in South Williamsburg, UJO …
Publication
A new approach to the comparative analysis of health systems: invasive treatment for heart disease in the US, France, and their two world citiesCross-national comparisons that assess dimensions of health system performance indicate that the US provides higher rates of revascularization procedures than France and other developed nations, but we believe these findings are misleading. In this paper, …
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The Relationship between School Infrastructure and School Nutrition Program Participation and Policies in New York CityMelissa Pflugh Prescott, Brian D. Elbel, Kathleen Woolf, Roland O. Ofori, Amy Ellen Schwartz …
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SMART CURBS INITIATIVEIn 2023, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) launched a Curb Management Action Plan in an effort to reimagine the city’s curb space. The goal of the “Smart Curbs” pilot is to address the evolving urban transportation landscape marked …
Capstone Projects
Improving Process, Communication, Fiscal Operations, and Evaluation at a New York City Nonprofit OrganizationCareer Gear is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged men get and keep jobs by providing them with business-appropriate clothing, career counseling, and follow-up job support. Now at a pivotal point in its development, Career Gear …
Capstone Projects
Improving Process, Communication, Fiscal Operations, and Evaluation at a New York City Nonprofit OrganizationCareer Gear is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged men get and keep jobs by providing them with business-appropriate clothing, career counseling, and follow-up job support. Now at a pivotal point in its development, Career Gear …
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URPL-GP.2625
Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable CitiesThis class is about the infrastructure systems that make up the built environment of cities, and that can make cities more or less sustainable and equitable. As humans face concurrent crises of climate change and inequality, most of the earth’s population …Publication
A New Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Health Systems: Invasive Treatment for Heart Disease in the US, France, and Their Two World CitiesCross-national comparisons that assess dimensions of health system performance indicate that the US provides higher rates of revascularization procedures than France and other developed nations, but we believe these findings are misleading. In this paper, …
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Hospital Market Structure and the Return to Nursing EducationJulia Lane and LaVonne Booton …
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EVALUATING LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY SUCCESSES OF ELECTED OFFICIALSNew American Leaders (NAL) leads a movement for inclusive democracy by equipping immigrants, refugees, and their allies with the tools needed to run for office, engaging in civic action that brings their voices to the forefront of American politics, and …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Needs and Exploring Options for Affordable Housing in a Changing Manhattan Neighborhood"The Capstone team provided the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) with information to help the organization see the current state of the community and evaluate the feasibility of affordable housing construction in the context of …
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Dominance of alpha and iota variants in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections in New York CityRalf Duerr, Dacia Dimartino, Christian Marier, Paul Zappile, Guiqing Wang, Jennifer Lighter, Brian D. Elbel, Andrea B. Troxel, Adriana …