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Improving The Management Of Care For High- Cost Medicaid PatientsThe article discusses the improvement of care management for high-cost Medicaid patients. It explores on Medicaid budgets which have prompted policymakers to redouble efforts to explore ways of boosting efficiency in care delivery, particularly for people …
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Do Changes in Pension Incentives Affect Retirement? A Longitudinal Study of Subjective Retirement ExpectationsThis paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals’ retirement decisions to forward-looking measures of pension accumulations. In contrast to previous research, we use within-person variation in retirement incentives and are able to control for …
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Communicating Tax Penalties to Delinquent Taxpayers: Evidence from a Field ExperimentWe analyze a large field experiment conducted with the Colorado Department of Revenue to study the presentation of financial incentives and social norms in tax delinquency notices. We find that notices that highlight and provide information about …
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Lisa Ellen Goldberg FellowshipLisa Ellen Goldberg, the celebrated president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation and beloved wife of John Sexton, the former president of New York University, was a dynamic force in the world of philanthropy and the Jewish community. Prior to her death …
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Mixed-methods study to examine the response of opioid addiction treatment programmes to COVID-19: a study protocolIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to clinical practice within traditional addiction treatment programmes, including the increased use of telehealth, reduced restrictions on methadone administration (eg, increased availability of …
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Who Reports Noticing and Using Calorie Information Posted on Fast Food Restaurant Menus?OBJECTIVE: Identify consumer characteristics that predict seeing and using calorie information on fast food menu boards. METHODS: Two separate data collection methods were used in Philadelphia during June 2010, several weeks after calorie labeling …
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Two from Wagner receive NYU's Distinguished Young Alumni AwardNYU Wagner is proud to announce that this year’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award has been given to two Wagner graduates. The Distinguished Young Alumni Award celebrates recent graduates across the University who achieved exceptional personal and …
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Intersecting Sectors? The Connection Between Nonprofit and Government SpendingIn this paper, we articulate that rent-seeking behavior by nonprofit charities and budgetary discretionary behavior by public agents should lead to a positive correlation between nonprofit charity and government spending. Using a large national database …
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayAbout forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would …
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101 Careers in Healthcare ManagementCareers in health administration continue to grow despite an overall downturn in the economy. This is a field that offers tremendous job opportunities across the spectrum of healthcare delivery and payment organizations. 101 Careers in Healthcare …
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Primary care, social inequalities, and birth outcomes in U.S. statesStudy objective: The study tests the extent to which primary care physician supply (office based primary care physicians per 10 000 population) moderates the association between social inequalities and infant mortality and low birth weight throughout the …
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Comparative Market Analysis for ExpansionStationMD is an innovative telemedicine startup founded by board-certified emergency medicine physicians. StationMD physicians seek to reduce avoidable hospital utilization in vulnerable populations by conducting examinations in patients’ homes or …
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NYU Team Wins the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing ChallengeA team of NYU Wagner and NYU Stern students have won first place at the 2020 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge ! The team was among four finalist schools that presented, which were ultimately narrowed from 95 teams from over …
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E-Hail Regulation in Global CitiesIn recent years—and with increasing speed—global cities are exercising their authority to regulate e-hail services such as Uber, Ola, Lyft, and Didi. This report, by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation, describes the current and future regulatory …
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Best Practices For Improving Registered Nurse RetentionTurnover of registered nurses is an increasing concern for hospitals because of its negative impact on patient care, patient satisfaction, and financial stability. New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) requested a Capstone team to examine past and current …
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A new methodology for assessing social work practice: The adaptation of the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (SW-OSCE)The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) methodology was originally developed to assess medical students. OSCE is a carefully scripted, standardized, simulated interview, in which students’ interactional skills are observed and assessed. Here …
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Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for Physician Services Compared to Other CountriesHigher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation’s health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians’ fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip …
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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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The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household StabilityPrior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and earnings. However, household and residential outcomes may be more sensitive to the psychological effects of …
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Assessment of the Transfer Penalty for Transit Trips: A GIS-based Disaggregate Modeling ApproachTransit riders negatively perceive transfers because of their inconvenience, often referred to as a transfer penalty. Understanding what affects the transfer penalty can have significant implications for a transit authority and also lead to potential …
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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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2023 AwardeesThe NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration . The five projects awarded and the five finalists recognized are featured here. Congratulations to all! 2023 …
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Supporting the Ellen Schall Experience FundSupporting students in unpaid internships The Ellen Schall Experience Fund provides much-needed support to NYU Wagner students who undertake unpaid summer public service internships. The Experience Fund ensures that students can explore professional …