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Access to outpatient care in Manhattan and Paris: A tale of real change in two world cities… in 2014. We find that AHC rates in Manhattan declined by about 25% and are now lower than those in Paris. Despite …
News
Alec Schierenbeck Discusses Affordable Housing in NYC at 2025 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum… and to create an Affordable Housing Review Board. About the Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum Henry Hart Rice …
Alumni In Action
Sean Maloney… Sean Maloney who is working in Washington, DC, and told us a bit about what he does: What is your current position and what do … him last week out of the blue to ask a perplexing question about "doing development differently." I didn't think I'd get …
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Age of Entry and the High School Performance of Immigrant Youth… In 2005, immigrants exceeded 12% of the US population, with the highest concentrations in large … policymakers and practitioners continue to raise concerns about educational outcomes of immigrants arriving in their … That said, their findings provide cause for concern about the performance of limited English proficient students, …
Alumni In Action
Karen R. Brown… I met at a Wagner open house, who talked passionately about their very applied research projects. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I play a leading role in …
Alumni In Action
Bryan Brown… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I ensure the timely … items I've been involved with include performance reports about our COVID-response shelters, dashboards for assorted …
Alumni In Action
Miriam Surdin… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I oversee and …
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Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems… whatever means necessary. Driving Social Change tells us that we should be less concerned about the tools of agitation and more concerned about the disruption and replacement of the status quo. …
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty… a year of ups and downs. Through the groundbreaking US Financial Diaries project, we meet real people, from a … saving clubs, borrowing from relatives, strategizing about skipping bills, and devising ways to keep money just … , Morduch and Schneider challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save. This book …
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My Brother's Keeper? The Association between Having Siblings in Poor Health and Wealth Accumulation… also has implications for public policy discussions about the health care system and social insurance more …
Alumni In Action
Paula Sevilla Núñez… with other people and with the institutions that offer us educational, cultural, economic and political … eroding democracy. The housing justice work is not just about building homes; it is about building a movement for equity and justice at a time …
Alumni In Action
Kris Mordecai… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I lead finance and … in an administrative support role, my passion has been about providing the operational support and services that …
Faculty Profile
Paul DiMaggio… the Center for Data Science. He has written and taught about cultural policy and communications policy, and has …
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Student Spotlight: Shannon Flores (MPA 2024)… impact in Latinx community advocacy. Can you share a bit about yourself and what motivated you to attend a school of … of Bloomberg Public Service Fellows. Can you share a bit about your experience and what you’ve learned thus far? The … a sense of community within the group. They’ve offered us a lot of mentorship and guidance, speaking frankly about …
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The effect of social networks and concentrated poverty on black and hispanic youth unemployment… in youth labor markets. A model, in which information about jobs travels through social networks, links labor …
Stories
NYU Wagner Voices: Lisibeth Payano US Air Force Veteran and Women’s Rights Activist… to shift her career path while talking to her colleagues about the benefits of attending school for business. In the spring of 2016, Lisibeth left the US Air Force to attend the Borough of Manhattan Community … in Health Policy and Management. She is most excited about working with professors and gaining more experience …
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CYC: The S.E.E. Strategies… work in a soup kitchen help me participate in a discussion about poverty alleviation in a policy class, how might my … in a way that will help me develop my own theories about what works? If I am working and going to school at the … managing a much bigger operation, writing or speaking about what I know) …
Alumni In Action
Rutika Naik… Tell me about your background when you started at NYU Wagner. Why … or to get a degree. One needs to really be passionate about healthcare, leading change, and serving the community … the experience of the program tenfold. This also allowed us to make some lifelong friends and expand our network at a …
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Public transportation and transmission of viral respiratory disease: Evidence from influenza deaths in 121 cities in the United States… along transportation routes, there is limited evidence about whether public transportation use itself is associated … transit use from 121 large cities in the United States (US) between 2006 and 2015. We find no evidence of a positive …
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Achieving Horizontal Equity: Must We Have A Single-Payer Health System?… access to its residents. The lesson is to worry less about the number of payers and more about the system’s ability to assure access to primary and …
Capstone Projects
IMPACTS ON HOUSING STABILITY… Using Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) from the US Census’ American Community Survey, the team conducted a … UPK's broader societal impacts, informing policymakers about its potential role in supporting family financial …
Faculty Profile
Robert Lieberthal… in local philanthropic activities. Rob is passionate about supporting children and young adults with special needs …
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San Juan, Puerto Rico… the course. Course Prerequisites : None For all inquiries about the program, contact wagner.international@nyu.edu . … the Consulate page . Information Sessions Please join us for one of the following information sessions. #1: …
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Tax Filing and Take-up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and Benefit Claiming… In a large field experiment, we find that IRS letters about free tax preparation modestly increased filing, with a …