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Is Segregation Bad for Your Health? The Case of Low Birth WeightThis paper explores the relationship between racial segregation and racial disparities in the prevalence of low birth weight. The paper has two parallel motivations. First, the disparities between black and white mothers in birth outcomes are large and …
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Executive Master of Public Administration Application ChecklistFill out your online application. Entry Term Only offered for the Fall semester. Application Deadline Online applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. Any mailed application material must be postmarked by …
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Appealing a Final Grade at NYU WagnerAppealing a Final Grade at NYU Wagner A final grade earned in a course taught by an NYU Wagner instructor will be changed only in exceptional circumstances. Grading is a matter of the discretion of the instructor in his or her application of the NYU …
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Study Finds New York City's Small High School Reform "Lifted All Boats" A new study by NYU Wagner professors Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz finds that small urban high schools produced better results than their larger counterparts, and “lifted all boats” across all types of schools, whether large or small, old or …
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THE EFFECT OF POST-SANDY NYC SUBWAY RENOVATIONS ON HOUSEHOLD INCOMEOn October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck New York City for 48 hours straight. The storm caused an estimated $19 billion in damage and negatively impacted economic activity in the city. The MTA suffered extensive damage, estimated at $5 billion, forcing …
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America's Arrival City: How Immigration Made New York and How Immigrant Exclusion Almost Destroyed ItNew York is America’s quintessential arrival city. The city’s defining institutions; its economy; its skyscrapers, parks and infrastructure; its schools, hospitals and social services and its cultural ecosystem have all been produced through the city’s …
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EFFECTIVE AND EQUITABLE MOBILE CRISIS RESPONSE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTHChildren’s Rights is a national advocacy organization that champions the legal rights of children impacted by government systems. In light of the implementation of the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988, the organization enlisted a Capstone team to …
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ASSESSING THE FINANCIAL LANDSCAPE TO GUIDE ORGANIZATIONAL DECISIONSFor over a century, the Provident Loan Society has been providing access to cash to New Yorkers in need, with a special focus on immigrant and impoverished populations. The nonprofit client engaged a Capstone team to investigate the contributing factors …
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PRIMARY CARE AND ITS IMPACT ON POPULATION HEALTHThere has been a consistent decline in the number of physicians pursuing the field of primary care. Because a wide variety of research highlights the importance of early intervention for health outcomes, a Capstone team investigated the relationship …
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Striking a Balance Among Housing, Industry, Transportation, and Open SpaceIn recent years as manufacturing has continued its relative decline and NYC’s strong housing market has created pressure for growth in outer boroughs, the neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn have been experiencing rapid residential …
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Striking a Balance Among Housing, Industry, Transportation, and Open SpaceIn recent years as manufacturing has continued its relative decline and NYC’s strong housing market has created pressure for growth in outer boroughs, the neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn have been experiencing rapid residential …
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Effect of neighborhood stigma on economic transactionsAlthough previously theorized, virtually no rigorous empirical evidence has demonstrated an impact of neighborhood stigma on individual outcomes. To test for the effects of neighborhood stigma on economic transactions, an experimental audit of an online …
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Apparent MismatchThe federal regulations that govern human subjects research were created in the wake of gross abuses of medical science, in which subjects undertook significant risks (and were significantly harmed), without consenting to treatment. Developments in recent …
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First-generation college students share unique experiences in panel eventOn November 30, NYU Wagner hosted "Trailblazers: First Gen College Students,” a panel and networking opportunity focused on the unique experiences of first-generation college students. The event was co-sponsored by the Wagner Student Association and the …
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Are people happier in locations of high property value? Spatial temporal analytics of activity frequency, public sentiment and housing price using Twitter data.The rise of social networking platforms provides opportunities to examine the relationship between public emotion and housing price. This study investigates frequency and places of visits, population sentiment, and housing price using 8.7 million tweets …
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Effects of childhood obesity on hospital care and costs, 1999-2005Childhood obesity is increasingly recognized as an epidemic, but the economic consequences have not been well quantified. We evaluated trends in obesity-associated hospitalizations, charges, and costs using 1999-2005 data from a nationally representative …
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Reductions In Firearm-Related Mortality And Hospitalizations In Brazil After Gun ControlThis paper provides evidence suggesting that gun control measures have been effective in reducing the toll of violence on population health in Brazil. In 2004, for the first time in more than a decade, firearm-related mortality declined 8 percent from the …
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The economic burden placed on healthcare systems by childhood obesityThe obesity epidemic has transformed children's healthcare, such that diabetes, hypertension and the metabolic syndrome are phrases more commonly used by child health providers than ever before. This article reviews the economic consequences of this …
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The Knowledge BankThe urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is …
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Professors Iskander and Morduch Awarded Fellowships by Institute for Advanced StudyNYU Wagner Professors Natasha Iskander and Jonathan Morduch have been awarded fellowships by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2022-23 academic year, beginning on Sept. 19. This prestigious fellowship allows for uninterrupted curiosity-driven …
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Big Data in Survey Research AAPOR Task Force ReportRecent years have seen an increase in the amount of statistics describing different phenomena based on “Big Data.” This term includes data characterized not only by their large volume, but also by their variety and velocity, the organic way in which they …
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Workflow Management In A Nursing HomeThe Village Center for Care of New York has been using the computer-based workflow management software known as eWorks to monitor their falls prevention program. To remain on the cutting edge in a rapidly changing health care environment, the organization …
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in BangladeshRapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology …