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Capstone Projects
A Financial Model for High-Touch Community-Based Palliative Care… interdisciplinary team (physician or nurse practitioner, social worker, and chaplain, if needed), telephonic outreach …
Capstone Projects
Analysis of Proposed Downtown Hicksville Rezoning… The Capstone team’s retail market analysis and fiscal impact analysis findings assessed whether a market for retail …
Capstone Projects
Building Capacity in Foundation Grantees… innovative organizations that seek to address important social issues. The Capstone team worked exclusively with two …
Capstone Projects
Butterfly Project… postnatal program to address the full range of medical, social, and psychological needs of adolescent mothers and …
Course
URPL-GP.4622
Wealth and Inequality… weathering unexpected expenses or shocks, ascribing social status, and transferring assets to children and/or …Capstone Projects
Monitoring Public Service Delivery Under Indonesias Emerging DecentralizationIn the wake of the 1997 Asian fiscal crises and the demise of the Suharto regime, the government of Indonesia has implemented a decentralization program that is considered the new hope for development and growth in the country. If local government …
Publication
Small Schools, Large Districts: Small School Reform and New York City’s StudentsHigh school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score gaps. Although a number of reforms offer some promise of improving U.S. high schools, small …
Stories
A Wagner alum’s journey to redefine the healthcare system in Nairobi’s slums… is where Access Afya comes in. Access Afya is a low-cost, social health enterprise developed and led by NYU Wagner … at NYU Wagner where she began exploring ideas in social business and enterprise. While in school, she made … who later joined the team as an angel investor. In a social entrepreneurship class, an NYU Wagner professor …
Alumni In Action
Jason Leivenberg… and learning about what it takes to create and sustain impact for communities. And so I was seeking an …
Publication
Residential Street Parking and Car Ownership… evidence exists either way. This article examines the impact of street-parking supply on the car ownership of … was measured through Google Street View and Bing Maps. The impact of on-street parking on car ownership levels was then …
Alumni In Action
Jan Luis Mendez Garcia… current job and how your role contributes to making an impact. I currently work at the New York City Independent … the most pressing policy issues in our time that have an impact on my life and have the chance to approach these …
Alumni In Action
Jasiel Martin-Odoom… to be at that intersection between policy, business, and impact. Can you tell us a bit about your job …
News
NYU Wagner Capstone Expo Showcases Student Innovation in Public Service… policy challenges, data-driven strategies, and real-world impact. …
Webpage
Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. Policy-Making… & James H. Stock. “ Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon ,” Nature 590 (25 February 2021): 548-550. Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. Policy-Making New York … to convene this virtual dialogue on the role of the social cost of carbon (SCC) in U.S. policy-making on …
Capstone Projects
The Role of Partnerships and Participation in Local Economic Development in AfricaAs urban populations in developing countries continue to grow, cities are becoming an increasingly critical component to economic stabilization as well as to overall national development. Recognizing such urban migration patterns and the underlying …
Publication
The Effect of Local Violence on Children’s Attention and Impulse ControlObjectives: We examined whether the burden of violence in a child’s community environment alters the child’s behavior and functioning in the classroom setting. Methods: To identify the effects of local violence, we exploited variation in the timing of …
Publication
Navigating Dangerous Streets: The Sources and Consequences of Street Efficacy… is substantially influenced by various aspects of the social context surrounding adolescents. Adolescents who live …
Publication
Beyond Normative Models and Development Trends: Strategic Design and Implementation of Decentralization in Developing CountriesThis paper considers recent thinking on and experience with decentralization and local government reform in developing countries, primarily from the perspective of national policy. The paper begins by reviewing why decentralization has re-emerged as an …
Webpage
Chamada Aberta… no website da Iniciativa de Inovação e Investimento Social da NYU e ficará disponível para o público em geral; Os …
News
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx at NYU Wagner… Center for Transportation. He spoke about “Transportation, Social Mobility, and Cities” on a panel with David R. Jones, …
Webpage
WagnerCares Week of Service 2021… help us contribute to the work DOROT does to decrease social isolation among older adults. Check out …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Handaa Enkh-Amgalan (MPA-PNP 2019)… her to combine storytelling with activism to push for social change. As a teenager in Mongolia, Handaa was … and medical staff to hide her disease due to fears of social stigma and discrimination. Hiding such an important … simultaneously considering how to eradicate the attached social stigmas. TB affects a significant portion of the …
Capstone Projects
Voter Turnout in NYC: Results from the 2008/2009 Elections and Strategies for 2012/2013… identify New Yorker’s voting patterns and the factors that impact the voter turnout rate. While research has been …
Capstone Projects
Indonesia Local Government Tax AnalysisAs part of the United States Agency for International Development technical assistance to the Indonesia Ministry of Finance, the project studied new taxes and charges adopted by local governments under the countrys evolving decentralization process. This …