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Studying collective leadership: The road aheadIn the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers …
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Examining the Benefits and Challenges of the Brooklyn Family Justice Center and Recommendations for Future CentersThe Brooklyn Family Justice Center (FJC) is part of The New York City Mayors Office to Combat Domestic Violence. The FJC provides coordinated and efficient services to victims of domestic violence with the assistance of community based organizations and …
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Writing SupportTHE WAGNER WRITING CENTER All the best intentions and brilliant ideas in the world are for naught if they aren’t communicated clearly. In fact, in an era when think tanks have become content creators, public services use texts and tweets to help their …
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Prisons and Rural Economies: Do Prisons Generate Economic Development Benefits to Host Counties?The confluence of rural economic decline and a booming prison population led to a growth industry for prison construction in the 1980s. In the past 20 years, roughly 1,000 new prisons and jails have been built in the United States. Since 1980, …
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Prisons and Rural Economies: Do Prisons Generate Economic Development Benefits to Host Counties?The confluence of rural economic decline and a booming prison population led to a growth industry for prison construction in the 1980s. In the past 20 years, roughly 1,000 new prisons and jails have been built in the United States. Since 1980, …
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Student Erika Harris Co-Authors Book Review for Public Administration ReviewNYU Wagner student Erika Harris has co-authored a review of a new book on environmental policy in Public Administration Review with NYU College of Public Health student Vanessa Bobadilla . The article is titled "Through the Student Lens: A Review of …
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U.S. Healthcare Policy "Roller Coaster" in Focus as Sherry Glied Delivers the Spring 2017 Jack & Lewis Rudin Lecture“It has truly been a policy roller coaster on so many fronts – and healthcare not least among them,” Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner , said as she began the recent Spring 2017 Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. …
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NYU Wagner Graduates Gather in New E 17th Street Home for AlumNite 2025On June 12, 2025, NYU Wagner hosted AlumNite—the first time this celebration and fundraiser was hosted in its new home on East 17th Street—welcoming graduates ranging from the Classes of 1976 to 2025. Following a reception for the Host Committee …
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Tax Salience and RegressivityRecent evidence suggests consumers pay less attention to commodity taxes levied at the register than to taxes included in a good's posted price. If this attention gap is larger for high-income consumers than for low-income consumers, policymakers can …
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At forum, mayors depict city government as locus of actionMayors of four US cities say cities such as their own are making inroads against problems that Washington has often fumbled or ignored—from opiates to crime, and from assimilating immigrants to fixing roads, reducing energy consumption, and building back …
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Raising the Stakes: Experimental Evidence on the Endogeneity of Taxpayer MistakesRecent evidence suggests consumers fail to account for taxes that are excluded from a good’s displayed price. What is less understood is whether and how such “salience effects” depend on the magnitude of the tax. We conduct a laboratory shopping …
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"We Can’t Stop Neighborhoods from Changing"Ingrid Gould Ellen, Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center, and Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU Wagner, is exploring the impact of rising rents in major cities of the U.S., including New York, where, according to a Furman …
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Management and Leadership (undergraduate)Management and Leadership is designed to empower you with the skills you will need to make meaningful change in the world—whether you care about bike lanes, criminal justice, prenatal care, community development, urban planning, social investment, or …Webpage
NYU Wagner ConvocationApply to graduate in Albert by February 15. More information to follow. …
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Mayor de Blasio Names Dean of NYU Wagner, Sherry Glied, As Special Advisor to Mental Health Policy PanelSherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, has been selected by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve as Special Advisor to the Community Services Board (CSB), an advisory panel. The 15-person CSB, which consists of leaders from the private, public, and …
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Making the connections: community capacity for tobacco control in an urban African American communityDeveloping community capacity to improve health is a cornerstone of community-based public health. The concept of community capacity reflects numerous facets and dimensions of community life and can have different meanings in different contexts. This …
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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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City & State Names NYU Wagner Student and Three Graduates as "Rising Stars" in NYCThree NYU Wagner alumni and one current student have been named to City & State's "NYC 40 under 40 Rising Stars" honor roll for 2016. They are: Andrew Brent , Vice President, Head of Communications, Brookfield Property Partners (MPA 2004) ; Christian …
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Social Entrepreneurship MinorThe heart of entrepreneurship is learning not merely to survive but to flourish in a world of change. The joint Stern/Wagner minor in Social Entrepreneurship gives you the preparation you need to flourish in our rapidly changing world while focusing your …
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Introduction to the IssuesOverview The IRB system, and the accompanying regulatory framework, were designed primarily with biomedical research as the model. Yet IRB review also applies to social science. There is a sense in the social science world that this the framework (as …
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9/11: The Response to the World Trade Center AttacksThis research paper compared the experiences of recipients and non-recipients of aid from the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on September 11, 2001. It hypothesized that there are distinct patterns of aid and exclusion from aid that help to clearly …
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Development and Membership BuildingAs the largest community center of its type on the East Coast, and the second largest in the world, the LGBT Community Center has worked for 22 years to fortify, enrichand provide a vibrant home for the LGBT Community of New York City. The Capstone team …