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Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment students use team-generated Capstone option to launch startup ideasWhile NYU Wagner’s Capstone program has traditionally focused on a direct client project, one of the newer Master of Public Administration specializations has provided students with a chance to take an entrepreneurial approach to the crowning piece of …
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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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Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and MexicoAt the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Recommends Book Co-authored by NYU Wagner Professor Jonathan MorduchFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently recommending Portfolios of the Poor , a groundbreaking book co-authored by NYU Wagner Professor of Public Policy and Economics Jonathan Morduch, for reading and discussion by the Facebook community. The …
Faculty Profile
MICHAEL DUFFYMichael Thomas Duffy is a manager with extensive experience in the public, private and non-profit sector; currently he is the President of the Great Oaks Foundation, whose mission is to give students access to a quality education through High Dosage …
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Wrapping it up in a person: Examining employment and earnings outcomes for Ph.D. recipientsIn evaluating research investments, it is important to establish whether the expertise gained by researchers in conducting their projects propagates into the broader economy. For eight universities, it was possible to combine data from the UMETRICS …
Capstone Projects
Green Technology Park at WoodbridgeAfter taking office in 2006, Township of Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac identified the Pennval Road Redevelopment District as one of four priority project areas. The Township has since proposed that the 104-acre site be transformed from its current …
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The street level built environment and physical activity and walking: Results of a predictive validity study for the Irvine Minnesota InventoryThe Irvine Minnesota Inventory (IMI) was designed to measure environmental features that may be associated with physical activity and particularly walking. This study assesses how well the IMI predicts physical activity and walking behavior and develops …
Alumni In Action
Marian LeeHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? My professional experience immediately after Wagner for about 10 years (during my 20's) was in New York. New York has so many job opportunities - right out of school, I was able to get hands-on …
Capstone Projects
Measuring Job Quality in Small BusinessesOpportunity Fund is the nation’s leading nonprofit small business lender, providing microloans to entrepreneurs whose small businesses have not been able to access financial resources from traditional lenders. While Opportunity Fund has successfully …
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Taxing the Poor: Income Averaging ReconsideredThis Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating the disproportionate burden taxation of annual income places upon low-income families. The author proposes two simple income averaging devices to redress this effect: averaging the Earned …
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Determinants of Mortgage Default and Consumer Credit Use: The Effects of Foreclosure Laws and Foreclosure DelaysThe mortgage default decision is part of a complex household credit management problem. We examine how factors affecting mortgage default spill over to other credit markets. As home equity turns negative, homeowners default on mortgages and HELOCs at …
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Building an Infrastructure to Support the Use of Government Administrative Data for Program Performance and Social Science ResearchJulia Lane …
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Policy Analysis in Policy Advisory Committees" Policy Analysis in the United StatesJulia Lane …