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Christopher S. BesserDr. Christopher S. Besser received his PhD in Health Services Research, Management, and Policy at the University of Florida in December 2014. He retired from the US Army in 2022, after 22 years of service as a Medical Service Corps Officer. He has had the …
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The Influence of Micro Food-Environments on Food Consumption and BMI OutcomesThe rise in obesity rates has increased interest around the “food environment,” or the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods in a community. While there is considerable focus on the influence of food environments, studies that attempt to link …
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Outcome Evaluation of the Literacy Assistance Center AcademyThe Literacy Assistance Center (LAC) is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that increases opportunities for adults with low literacy skills and limited English language proficiencies by offering professional development training and technical …
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Degree CompletionThe University confers degrees in January, May, and August to students who finish all degree requirements by the respective deadlines . Applying for Graduation In order to earn your degree, you must apply for graduation in the first few weeks of the term …
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Option for Doctoral Research and Residence with NYU ShanghaiNYU Wagner, in partnership with NYU Shanghai, invites applications from exceptional students for PhD study and research in Public Administration. Participating students are enrolled in NYU Wagner's Public Administration PhD program , complete their …
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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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Hospital Quality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Correlation Among Process Measures and Relationship with Short-Term MortalityContext The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) measure and report quality process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but little is known about how these …
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Wagner Voices: NYU Wagner First-Generation Graduate Students What does it mean to be a first-generation graduate student at NYU Wagner? …
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Richard BueryRichard Buery is a Public Service Fellow at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and served as Distinguished Visiting Urbanist during the Spring of 2019. He is also a Senior Fellow at the GovLab at NYU, where he advises on projects relating to …
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IMPROVING COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT PROCESSESBJC HealthCare (BJC) is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the US, with 15 hospitals located across Missouri and Illinois. As per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, each BJC hospital is required to complete a …
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CONDUCTING A PROCESS EVALUATION OF THE HOME+ PROGRAMThe NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) is an executive office that ensures inclusive services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. Home+ is a signature ENDGBV program grounded in client self-determination …
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Does Municipally Subsidized Housing Improve School Quality? Evidence from New York CityProblem: Policymakers and community development practitioners view increasing subsidized owner-occupied housing as a mechanism to improve urban neighborhoods, but little research studies the impact of such investments on community amenities. Purpose: We …
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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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How Immigrants—and Their Kids—Have Remade New York CityAs part of the annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum on May 9, NYU Wagner hosted a lecture and discussion on the impact of immigration on New York City featuring Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. More …
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Liz DeMatteisLiz DeMatteis is a Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Liz is a dynamic leader with experience across a wide range of health tech firms. From her 20+-year career, Liz brings broad perspective …
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EVALUATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE-COUNTING TECHNOLOGIES Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH), a subsidiary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is a heavy rail rapid transit system that serves commuters in Hoboken, Newark, Jersey City, and Manhattan. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and dramatic …
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Directory of New York City Affordable Housing ProgramsNew York City has a long history of government intervention in residential housing markets, resulting in more than 175 affordable housing programs reflecting a wide range of goals and strategies. The Directory of New York City Affordable Housing Programs …
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Practical propensity score matchingThis paper discusses propensity score matching in the context of Smith and Todd's (Does matching overcome Lalonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators, J. Econom., in (press) reanalysis of Dehejia and Wahba (J. Am. Statist. Assoc. 97 (1999) 1053; …
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Understanding the Political Context of "New " Policy Issues: The Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the Case of Expanded After-School ProgramsThis article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies …
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"Government by the People"Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a …
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"Understanding the Political Context of 'New' Policy Issues: The Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the Case of Expanded After-School Programs"This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies …
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Examining Disparities in Living Conditions Slums of Nairobi and DakarThe World Bank recently completed a survey of living conditions in over 3,700 slum households in Dakar, Senegal and Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicated that living conditions (e.g. piped water, sanitation, electricity) in the slums of Nairobi were far …
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How to Successfully Increase and Upgrade Fee-for-Service Programming to Attract a More Economically Diverse ClienteleIn order to implement its completed strategic plan in the areas of program and revenue development, The Educational Alliance asked the Capstone team to conduct a competitive analysis of their fee-for-service offerings in order to determine how to …
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Panel with NYU Wagner's Dean inspires Congressional agreement on evidence-based policymakingIs bipartisan law-making still possible on Capitol Hill? Apparently so. Shortly before 2018 ended, the House of Representatives passed bipartisan, bicameral legislation that is designed to encourage policymaking based on data and evidence. The Foundations …