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The Welfare State and Infant MortalityThis article seeks to understand the effects of welfare-state spending on infant mortality rates. Infant mortality was chosen for its importance as a social indicator and its putative sensitivity to state action over a short time span. Country …
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Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Interactions and their Implications for Health Policy: The Case of Low Birth Weight.According to recent research, interactions between infant health and environment can play crucial roles in clustering health and economic disadvantage among certain families. Researchers have provided a clear example of such intergenerational biosocial …
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Family Background, Race and Labor Market InequalityFor decades, social scientists have relied on sibling correlations as indicative of the effect of “global family background” on socioeconomic status. This study advances this line of inquiry by drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to …
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Appreciative Narratives as Leadership Research: Matching Method to LensThis chapter explores the potential of appreciative inquiry for doing empirical work on leadership. We use a framework that matches a constructionist theoretical lens, an appreciative and participative stance, a focus on the work of leadership (as opposed …
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of UncertaintyThe ideal of the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach, even for many families who are trying to do everything right. To find out why, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider followed 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigated a year of …
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Developing an Alumni Ambassador ProgramThe Women’s Enterprise Development Center (WEDC) provides women and minorities in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley with opportunities for business ownership. WEDC hosts a 60-hour entrepreneurial training program that assists its students with …
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Public Policy Minor(formerly Social & Public Policy Minor) Addressing and understanding policy in areas ranging from education, health, and immigration to sustainability and urban planning is at the heart of NYU Wagner's mission. Drawing on this traditional strength, the …
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Lutheran Medical Center Medicaid Reimbursement Case StudyLutheran Medical Center is a community-based hospital in Brooklyn, New York that serves a large underprivileged population. Because Medicaid comprises approximately 20% of the Medical Centers revenue, it is important to collect these payments in a timely …
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The Impact of the Trickle Up Programs Business Skills Training on Entrepreneurs in Bolivia, India, and UgandaThe Trickle Up Program (TUP) is an international nonprofit organization that delivers seed capital grants and business training to low-income entrepreneurs who want to launch their own microenterprises. TUP implements its program in partnership with …
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The Impact of the Trickle Up Programs Business Skills Training on Entrepreneurs in Bolivia, India, and UgandaThe Trickle Up Program (TUP) is an international nonprofit organization that delivers seed capital grants and business training to low-income entrepreneurs who want to launch their own microenterprises. TUP implements its program in partnership with …
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A Community Based Intervention to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking in Adolescents: The Gonorrhea Community Action ProjectObjectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years, recruited from community-based organizations in 2 different …
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Patient Acuity SystemsThe Capstone team formulated two research questions to assess the extent to which the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) was utilizing evidence-based nursing sensitive patient acuity measures to manage nurse staffing: what are the current NYPH …
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Developing a Prototype Financial Health Report for Nonprofit ManagersThe Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is a nonprofit organization providing financing and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations. NFF, in its mission to help realize a strong and well capitalized nonprofit sector, requested a Capstone team to develop …
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Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later lifeParkinson disease (PD) and Alzheimer disease (AD), the two most common neurodegenerative disorders in American adults, are of purely genetic origin in a minority of cases and appear in most instances to arise through interactions among genetic and …
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The Continuing Crisis in Charitable ConfidenceFour years after September 11th, public confidence in charitable organizations remains stuck at a contemporary low. According to a telephone survey of 1,820 randomly-selected Americans interviewed on behalf of NYU Wagner's Organizational Performance …
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OPTIMIZING OPERATIONS BY DIGITIZING DATAMetro-North Railroad (MNR), a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, is a suburban commuter rail system that runs service in New York City and its northern suburbs in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. MNR enlisted a Capstone team to …
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Welfare Caseload Change: An Alternative ApproachIn the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Of existing studies based on time series or state panel data, some tend to underplay the role of welfare reform. All say little about that policies drove the decline or …
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Publications - ICISJournal Articles and Published Proceedings Papers R. Zimmerman, Q. Zhu and C. Dimitri (2016) “Promoting Resilience for Food, Energy and Water Interdependencies,” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences , Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 50-61. Published …
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Seanna ThompsonSeanna Thompson, MD, MBA, MS, CPE, FACHE, FACOG, Diplomate of ABOM, is a Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Seanna Thompson is a transformative, dynamic Certified Physician …
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Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and HealthOver half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and …
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Incoming International StudentsWelcome to Wagner! As you prepare for the upcoming academic year, we hope the curated information below will help you prepare for your arrival to New York City and NYU Wagner. Visa Requirements Review legal and academic requirements to maintain your …