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What a Difference A Grade Makes: Evidence From New York City's Restaurant Grading PolicyMichah W. Rothbart, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Thad D. Calabrese, Zachary Papper, Todor Mijanovich, Rachel Meltzer, Diana Silver …
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Do Housing Vouchers Improve Academic Performance?: Evidence from New York CityAmy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Ellen, Sarah A. Cordes, Keren M. Horn …
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Has falling crime invited gentrification?Since the early 1990s, central city crime has fallen dramatically in the United States. We explore the extent to which this trend may have contributed to gentrification. Using confidential census microdata, we show that reductions in central city violent …
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A New Revenue Source for Mass Transit: Legalizing and Taxing CannabisNew York is a subway city. Despite the growth of bikes, scooters, for hire cars, and ferries, the city’s subway system is the principal way in which New Yorkers move. More than 5.5 million people ride the subway each weekday.[1] This number is larger than …
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Infant Mortality in Moscow: the Perils of Progress in Russia’s World CityThis paper examines changes in infant mortality (IM) in Moscow, Russia’s largest and most affluent city. Along with some remarkable improvements in Moscow’s health system over the period between 2000 and 2014, the overall IM rate for Moscow’s residents …
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Online Consumption and Mobility Practices: Crossing Views From Paris and ManhattanThe NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and 6t-research office have published the results of a large-scale exploratory survey on the consumption and mobility practices of the population of Paris and Manhattan (NYC). The survey – which can be downloaded …
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Disparities in Access to Revascularization: Evidence from New YorkPurpose: To quantify and compare citywide disparities in the performance of coronary revascularization procedures in New York residents diagnosed with ischemic heart disease (IHD) by the characteristics of the patients and their neighborhood of residence …
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The Pink Tax on Transportation: Women’s Challenges in Mobility The NYU Rudin Center for Transportation sought to determine whether transportation has a "Pink Tax," a term used to describe the extra amount women are charged (typically 7%) for products and services, like deoderant and dry cleaning. To learn more …
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Open Science Framework PreprintJulia Ingrid Lane, Tal Yarkoni, Dean Eckles, James Heathers, Margaret Levenstein, Paul Smaldino …
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Change through Data: A Public Extension Program for Government EmployeesJulia Ingrid Lane, Frauke Kreuter, Rayid Ghani …
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Housing the Next Million New Yorkers Near TransitNew York City has experienced four decades of population and housing growth since the 1970’s fiscal crisis, and needs continued growth to maintain its position as the nation’s leading center of commerce and culture, while generating tax revenue to support …
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The State of Scooter Sharing in United States CitiesScooter sharing, the temporary rental of motorized standing kick scooters, emerged in the Fall of 2017 as a last mile and short-distance travel mode. In cities across the United States, thousands of scooters were deployed virtually overnight. Electric …
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The Political Economy of Local Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries.Paul Smoke, Leonardo Romeo …
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“Commentary: How Housing Counseling, Financial Education and Consumer Guardrails Can Support Responsible Borrowers,” Sarah Gerecke …
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Transportation Challenges of Unbalanced Regional GrowthTransportation Challenges of Unbalanced Regional Growth addresses how trends in job creation and housing influence regional transportation …
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The Political Right to have ‘Society in the Bones’: The Skill and Brawn of Male Workers in QatarIskander, Natasha …
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Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for TransitWith the New York State Fiscal Year 2019 Executive Budget proposal to include a “value capture” mechanism for financing transit, an obscure and highly technical subject suddenly has generated considerable attention. This report explores the purpose of, …
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Policy Analysis in Policy Advisory Committees" Policy Analysis in the United StatesJulia Ingrid Lane …
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New insights into food safety research teamsReza Sattari, Julia Ingrid Lane, Jason Owen-Smith …
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Introduction and motivationKaye Husbands Fealing, Julia Ingrid Lane, John L. King, Stanley Johnson …