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Mitchell Moss and Sarah Kaufman Recognized by City & State's Transportation Top 100… "New York University’s Rudin Center has been a fount of research-supported revelations on transportation policy …

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Social Hierarchy: The Self-Reinforcing Nature of Power and Status… functions are often taken for granted in organizational research. In this review, we revisit some basic psychological … Our framework suggests a number of avenues for future research on the bases, causes, and consequences of hierarchy …

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Facing the Challenge of Evaluating a Complex, Multi-Site InitiativeTo overcome some of the limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental designs, evaluators have employed a "theory of change" (TOC) approach to evaluate comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs). This approach helps identify underlying assumptions, …

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State of the Art and New Directions in Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Fundamental Issues of Measurement and ManagementThis book provides an interdisciplinary and international characterization of the state of the art and science of risk analysis. Such an analysis is needed to ensure better management of choices concerning environmental, health and technology-based …

Faculty Profile

Ellen Schall… Professor of Health Policy & Management at NYU Wagner. Her research focuses on leadership and organizational …

Capstone Projects

Electronic Medical Records Implementation… an Electronic Medical Record System. Through this research, the Capstone team was able to provide …

Capstone Projects

Targeted Sector Workforce Development Program… proposing an implementation strategy. After comprehensive research of all major sectors in the city economy using … design analysis, including nationwide best practices research and exploratory interviews of key industry experts …

Capstone Projects

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Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health… of positive in utero health interventions using a new research design that exploits sharp increases in prenatal …

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Wagner Student Jo Al Khafaji-King Named 2024 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow… of Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) fellow. Framed by the economics …

Alumni In Action

Diana Sera… Analysis and Evaluation, Estimating Impacts in Policy Research, Global Health Governance, Microeconomics, Multiple …

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Beyond Bureaucracy: How prosecutors and public defenders enforce urban planning laws in Sao Paulo, Brazil… abstract texts become tangible policy outcomes. Existing research on the role of law in urban affairs conceives law as …

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2020 AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS… Alexis contributes to ongoing discussions and critical research on housing and neighborhoods. She will use this … plans. In January 2020, he traveled to Accra, Ghana to research plastic waste management with his Capstone teammates … side of health. During her time at NYU Wagner, she had her research on Opioid Stewardship in Orthopedic Surgery …

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A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop It… In this research paper, Paul C. Light writes that the “first step in …

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New York Times Op-Ed by NYU Wagner's Sherry Glied Explains How to Keep Healthcare Costs Down… with UC Berkeley's Richard M. Scheffler, is based on new research they worked on with colleagues for the May issue of …

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NYU Wagner Capstone: The Beginning of a Lifelong Journey From Fieldwork in Mozambique to a Career in Social Entrepreneurship… and policy. Through quantitative and qualitative research and rigorous analysis, students work in tandem with … The Wagner students’ commitment to providing high-quality research resulted in invaluable insights for the Freeplay … nonprofits as well as apply the analytical and research skills she honed through her coursework at NYU …

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Contribution Volatility and Public Pension Reform… one factor that has only recently gained attention in the research literature: contribution volatility. While unfunded …

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High Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives… ways to implement the recommendations and defines a research agenda for the future. Thirteen essays address the …

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Our History… and lasting impact on the public good. Our faculty’s research changes the way people frame, understand, and act on …

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Website Ranks NYU Wagner as 3rd Most Innovative Public Service School in Nation… global justice. NYU [Wagner] also boasts a long list of research opportunities, including the ‘Innovation Lab,’ which …

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Low-Income and Low-Skilled Workers' Involvement in Nonstandard Employment… both policymakers and academic researchers alike. Current research indicates that 1 in 10 workers are employed in one …

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Data Inventories for the Modern Age? Using Data Science to Open Government DataThis article describes how data science techniques—machine learning and natural language processing—can be used to open the black box of government data. It then describes how an incentive structure can be established—using human–computer interaction …

Faculty Profile

Francis YuFrancis Yu (they/them) is a Bay Area native and has experience in community organizing, community development, and local government. They most recently served a role as a Housing Fellow for the New York City Housing Preservation and Development agency …

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Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak… story of race and income. Consistent with previous research, blacks and Latinos were more likely and Asians less … in the same way as whites are. Contrary to previous research, model estimates did not find that borrowers paid a …