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Patrick HessHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? I had been living in New York for 5+ years when I started at Wagner, and my time in graduate school further opened up the city for me in ways that I did not expect. The university and the city …
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Gender and the Publication Output of Graduate Students: A Case StudyWe examine gender differences among the six PhD student cohorts 2004-2009 at the California Institute of Technology using a new dataset that includes information on trainees and their advisors and enables us to construct detailed measures of teams at the …
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Public Opinion and Constitutional ControversyAmerican politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes is often inundated with public-opinion polls. Yet for all …
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Transport, the Environment and Security: Making the ConnectionEffective means of transport are critical under both normal and extreme conditions, but modern transport systems are subject to many diverse demands. This path-breaking book uniquely draws together the typically conflicting arenas of transport, the …
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Natural Hazards Research & Applications InformationThe terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, resulted in a disaster that was unusual in U.S. experience in a number of ways: the densely developed and populated disaster site (in New York City); the type of buildings and infrastructure that were damaged; …
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U.S. Financial Diaries What do Turkey, Chile, Mexico, and the United States have in common ? Among the world’s developed countries, they top the list of those with the greatest income inequality. Perhaps that doesn’t come as a surprise: We’ve all heard that “the rich are …
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On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): mind the theory-policy-practice gapWe argue that the field of health policy and management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform health care systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the …
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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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How to Be an Effective Activist: 90-Minute Training in Nonviolent Action Draws 400Amid increased grassroots protests nationwide since the 2016 elections, about 400 students and others came together for a 90-minute training on nonviolent action hosted by NYU Wagner and the school's Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and …
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Lily BatchelderLily Batchelder, the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, is one of the nation’s leading voices on tax law and policy. She is an affiliated professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, faculty director of the Furman …
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Steven FinklerDr. Finkler is Professor Emeritus of Public and Health Administration, Accounting, and Financial Management. He served as Director of the Specialization in Healthcare Financial Management at Wagner for over twenty years. He is an award winning teacher and …
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Power Through Problem Solving: Latino Immigrants and the Inconsistencies of Economic RestructuringEmployment restructuring is a transformative process that brings about significant changes in how work is organised and experienced. Scholars who study restructuring in industries that employ large numbers of immigrant workers, including construction, …
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Congressional Decisionmaking ProjectConference Video December Conference Video This C-SPAN site provides complete coverage of the December conference with former Senator Daschle, former Representative Frenzel, Organizational Performance Initiative Founder Dr. Paul Light, Colby Professor Dr. …
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Administrative Decentralization and Climate Change: Concepts, Experience, and ActionInternational and domestic efforts to respond to the severe global challenge of climate change are on the rise and evolving. Despite the importance of action from multiple levels of government, public sector reforms to address climate change and to …
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Co-Monitoring for Transit ManagementEmerging technologies offer transit agencies an opportunity to transform fundamental aspects of their operations and the way they communicate with their riders. With nearly ubiquitous smartphones and social media tools among growing ridership patterns, …
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Gender and the Publication Output of Graduate StudentsWe examine gender differences among the six PhD student cohorts 2004–2009 at the California Institute of Technology using a new dataset that includes information on trainees and their advisors and enables us to construct detailed measures of teams at the …
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Population Health and the Health System: A Comparative Analysis of Avoidable Mortality in Three Nations and Their World CitiesBackground: Access to timely and effective medical services can reduce rates of premature mortality attributed to certain conditions. We investigate rates of total and avoidable mortality (AM) and the percentage of avoidable deaths in France, England and …
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Resetting our priorities in environmental health: An example from the south-north partnership in Lake Chapala, MexicoLake Chapala is a major source of water for crop irrigation and subsistence fishing for a population of 300,000 people in central Mexico. Economic activities have created increasing pollution and pressure on the whole watershed resources. Previous reports …
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Environment and obesity in the National Children's StudyOBJECTIVE: In this review we describe the approach taken by the National Children's Study (NCS), a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children, to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development of obesity. DATA SOURCES AND …
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Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later lifeParkinson disease (PD) and Alzheimer disease (AD), the two most common neurodegenerative disorders in American adults, are of purely genetic origin in a minority of cases and appear in most instances to arise through interactions among genetic and …
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Economic Evaluation of an HIV Prevention Intervention for Seropositive Injection Drug UsersTo assess the cost-effectiveness of Intervention for HIV-Seropositive injection drug users-Research and Evaluation (INSPIRE), designed to reduce risky sexual and needle-sharing behaviors in research sites in four US cities (2001-2003). Methods: We …
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A world without prisons: Improving prisoners' lives and transforming the justice systemCassandra Shaylor and Cynthia Chandler founded Justice Now in 2000. They push hard for prison abolition while advocating for better health care and conditions for prisoners in California's two largest women's prisons. They prioritize the leadership of …
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The Relationship of Life Stressors and Maternal Depression to Pediatric Asthma Morbidity in a Subspecialty PracticeObjective: To examine the relationships among demographic characteristics, caregiver life stressors, and depressive symptoms of mothers and their children's asthma morbidity. Setting: Three pediatric asthma subspecialty programs, 2 in the inner city and 1 …