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Credit is Not a RightIs credit a human right? Muhammad Yunus, the most visible leader of a global movement to provide microcredit to world’s poor, says it should be. NYU’s John Gershman and FAI’s Jonathan Morduch disagree. In their new paper, Credit is Not a Right, they ask …
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Best Schools, Worst Schools and School EfficiencyContains papers by state education dept. policymakers, analysts, & data providers on emerging issues in school finance. Includes: estimates of disparities & analysis of the causes of expenditures in public school districts; race, poverty & the student …
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Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical SystemsTelecommunications, transportation, energy and water supply networks have gained crucial importance in the functioning of modern social systems over the past 100 to 150 years. Sustaining Urban Networks studies the development of these networks and the …
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Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the Millenium Development Goals?The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. This paper reviews the mounting body of evidence showing that the …
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Safety Net Research in Emergency Medicine: The Unraveling Safety NetA primary goal of the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, "The Unraveling Safety Net: Research Opportunities and Priorities," was to explore a formal research agenda for safety net research in emergency medicine. This paper represents the …
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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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The Public Service Curriculum and Careers Project Topline ReportPaul C. Light and Jie Ding …
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Changes in Medical Care Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States, 1996-2002The authors examined changes in medical care experiences of racial/ethnic groups (non-Hispanic white, Asian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and non- Hispanic black) between 1996 and 2002, using data from the Household Component of Medical Expenditure …
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Kenya: The Evolution of Revenue Sharing under New Devolution in a Quasi-Federal SystemPaul Smoke and Jamie Boex …
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NYU School of Medicine Faculty Group PracticeAt the NYU Medical School Faculty Group Practice the resident had the opportunity to be involved in various projects including assisting senior management and practice managers in achieving operational and financial goals. The resident provided research …
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Local Incentives and Responses: The Case of IndonesiaPaul Smoke, Blane Lewis …
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Kenya: The Evolution of Revenue Sharing under New Devolution in a Quasi-Federal SystemJamie Boex, Paul Smoke …
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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among older children and Adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study of psychosocial contextsAbstract Survival among perinatally infected children and youth with HIV has been greatly extended since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies. Yet, adherence to HIV medication regimens is suboptimal and decreases as children reach …
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Resource Allocation, Emergency Response Capability and Infrastructure Concentration Around Vulnerable SitesPublic and private decision-makers continue to seek risk-based approaches to allocate funds to help communities respond to disasters, accidents, and terrorist attacks involving critical infrastructure facilities. The requirements for emergency response …
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Managing Diversity in Civil Service: A Conceptual Framework for Public Organizations.In this paper I explore the managerial challenges posed by diversity in addressing traditional and new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. I survey the core dimensions, concepts and approaches to diversity in reference to …
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Alumnus Jason Franklin selected as Chronicle of Philanthropy "40 under 40" honoreeNYU Wagner alumnus Jason Franklin (PhD, 2014) has been named to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “40 under 40” honor roll of innovators at the intersection of philanthropy and public service. Franklin, whose doctoral work at the Wagner school explored …
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Global Comparisons of Immigration Policy and Electoral Politics JOIN ON ZOOM: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97733684095 How does the role that immigration plays in US elections compare to elections in other places around the world? Join us for a virtual roundtable discussing immigration and electoral politics in the UK, …
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The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human CapitalIn 1961, Nicholas Kaldor highlighted six "stylized" facts to summarize the patterns that economists had discovered in national income accounts and to shape the growth models being developed to explain them. Redoing this exercise today shows just how much …
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My Summer Internship Experience: Sohana Islam (MPA)Sohana Islam, MPA student, talks about her summer internship experience with charity: water. …
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The Impact of Budget Stabilization Funds on State Pension ContributionsDespite the shortfalls in public employee pension funds, there is little known about the effect of fiscal institutions on pension funding. This paper focuses attention on the link between pension contributions and budget stabilization funds (BSFs) over …
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The Political Economy of Local Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries.Paul Smoke, Leonardo Romeo …
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Telecommuting and the Demand for Urban Living: A Preliminary Look at White-Collar WorkersWith recent advances in communications technology, telecommuting appears to be an increasingly viable option for many workers. For urban researchers, the key question is whether this growing ability to telecommute is altering residential location …
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Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious OrganizationsThis paper examines whether involvement with religious organizations can help insure consumption and happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we find that households who contribute to a religious organization are better able to …