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Consumer Borrowing After Payday Loan BansHigh-interest payday loans have proliferated in recent years; so too have efforts to regulate them. Yet how borrowers respond to such regulations remains largely unknown. Drawing on both administrative and survey data, we exploit variation in …
Capstone Projects
Measuring the Social Impact of Early- and Growth-Stage Firms… and advance companies addressing NYC’s most pressing urban challenges. GCT is considering incorporating social …
Capstone Projects
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS ON LOCAL ECONOMIES AND FISCAL SPACES… activity in three sectors: tourism and hospitality, urban transportation, and the delivery of goods and services. …
Capstone Projects
Evaluating the Implementation and Cultural Appropriateness of a Parenting Support Program… its cultural appropriateness to the multicultural and urban population of NYC. The team conducted a statistical …
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Meet the NYU Wagner Faculty — Professor Mitchell L. Moss… Professor Mitchell L. Moss, Henry Hart Rice professor of urban policy and planning and director of the Rudin Center …
Faculty Profile
Vicki Been… edge of legal scholarship at the intersection of land use, urban policy and housing. Been, who has been on faculty at …
Capstone Projects
ANALYZING OPPORTUNITIES TO LEVERAGE UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC ASSETS FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC… both financial returns and economic impact through urban regeneration. The team's final deliverables comprise a …
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"120 Under 40" Recognizes NYU Wagner Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Julia Kohn… her MPA from NYU Wagner in 2005 and her PhD in Public and Urban Policy at the New School. She is now an adjunct …
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Microfinance Games… games played in an experimental economics laboratory in urban Peru. Risk-taking broadly conforms to theoretical …
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NYU Wagner ranks high in U.S. News & World Report… City peer schools. In specialty areas, Wagner is #1 in Urban Policy, #2 in Health Policy & Management, #5 in Public …
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A Forum on the Politics of Skills: “Reducing the “unskilled” to their bodies: Control, surveillance, and the new politics of skill.”… who work within the fields of sociology, history, and urban planning to share their perspective on the politics of …
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Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina… a “metaphor” for the racial inequality that characterizes urban America and as a purely “natural” disaster that …
Capstone Projects
"Brooklyn Made" Certification Program… team produced the first in-depth, quantitative approach to urban manufacturing certification programs. …
News
NYU Wagner Ranks in Top 10 Overall in U.S. News & World Report… year's ranking. In specialty areas, Wagner is #1 in Urban Policy, #2 in Health Policy & Management, #6 in Public …
Capstone Projects
Assessing the Safe Youth Worldwide Initiative in South Africa and the Dominican Republic and Strengthening MSCIs Organizational Capacity Building Technical Assistance for Partner Organizations in DeveloMargaret Sanger Center International (MSCI) seeks to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide by strengthening local partners in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific. The Capstone team worked with MSCI to enhance …
Capstone Projects
Assessing the Safe Youth Worldwide Initiative in South Africa and the Dominican Republic and Strengthening MSCIs Organizational Capacity Building Technical Assistance for Partner Organizations in DeveloMargaret Sanger Center International (MSCI) seeks to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide by strengthening local partners in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific. The Capstone team worked with MSCI to enhance …
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Racial/Ethnic Identity, Congruence with the Social Context, and the Transition to High School… of this development was tested within samples of poor, urban, Black, White, and Latino students (n = 144). …
Capstone Projects
Increasing Patient Portal Usage and Identifying Best PracticesThe William F. Ryan Community Health Network is a family of nonprofit, federallyqualified health centers that deliver care to diverse, underserved communities. With stricter documentation regulations and increased requirements to use electronic health …
Capstone Projects
Researching Municipal Policies Affecting Women and Minority Business Owners… Citi Ventures understand the policy framework surrounding urban small business owners and entrepreneurs and identify …
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Growing Older in Hong Kong, New York and LondonDeclining birth rates, increasing longevity and urbanization have created a new challenge for cities: how to respond to an ageing population. Although population ageing and urbanization are not new concerns for national governments around the world, the …
Alumni In Action
Julissa Soriano… job responsibilities? In the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, I investigate and mediate claims of …
Alumni In Action
Erin Longbothum… I began to research schools and programs and decided Urban Planning was the perfect fit for my interests. … year, I worked at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy as a Research Assistant. During the summer after …
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Race, Class and Social Control in the Streets… has been a spiked resurgence of media interest in her 1961 urban studies classic, The Death and Life of Great American …
Capstone Projects
Assessment of Gaps and Needs of Access to Basic Infrastructure Services for the Poor in Chile… infrastructure services (water, sanitation, electricity, urban transport and rural roads) negatively affected poverty …