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Program Requirement ChecksheetThis checksheet is intended for students admitted through fall 2025. EXECUTIVE MPA: PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS I. CORE COURSES [9 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive all core …
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The Evolving Private Psychiatric Inpatient MarketThe private psychiatric hospital market has exhibited great volatility over time. From 1976 to 1992, the number of hospitals more than doubled, while in the decade following, the number of facilities dropped by half. Recently, however, the industry has …
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Confrontation and loss of control: Masculinity and men’s fear in public spaceExisting research typically examines fear in publicspace from women's perspectives. To date, environment–behavior researchers have largely overlooked men'sfear in publicspace, and the role of masculinity in shaping men's perceptions of fear and safety. …
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Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag RegulationRegulation of goods associated with negative environmental externalities may decrease consumption of the targeted product, but may be ineffective at reducing the externality itself if close substitutes are left unregulated. We find evidence that plastic …
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NYU Wagner Labor Initiative and State Futures Release Joint Issue Brief on Strengthening Workers' Rights Through Interstate CooperationAs Federal Labor Protections Diminish, New Report Charts Collaborative State Response State Futures and NYU Wagner Labor Initiative release roadmap for interstate action on workers’ rights A new report released by State Futures and the NYU Wagner …
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How to Successfully Increase and Upgrade Fee-for-Service Programming to Attract a More Economically Diverse ClienteleIn order to implement its completed strategic plan in the areas of program and revenue development, The Educational Alliance asked the Capstone team to conduct a competitive analysis of their fee-for-service offerings in order to determine how to …
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Fiscal Decentralization in Cambodia: Government WorkshopThe Capstone team acted as part of an international consulting team to The Royal Government of Cambodias Ministry of Economics and Finance. A workshop was held on 15th and 16th March 2001 in Phnom Penh for key government officials and staff. This was the …
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Chelsea JonesDr. Chelsea Jones is a Researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her background is in the study of race and racism in public policy, having obtained a Doctorate in Political Science (Race, Ethnicity and Politics) and a Master’s degree in Public Policy …
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Forecasting the Financial Future of Jewish Cemeteries in the New York AreaThe Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) requested a Capstone team to review the finances of regulated Jewish cemeteries in New York. It has been suggested that the expenses of some of the regulated cemeteries in New York City will outdistance their …
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From Policy to Practice: A Process Evaluation of the New York City Department of Probation's Containment Model for Sex Offender SupervisionThe Capstone team conducted a process evaluation of the New York City Department of Probation's (Department) containment model for supervising sex offenders. The Department commenced this new model in October 2008, but had not examined the extent to which …
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Evaluation of Keep the Dream: A Refinance Program for Households Facing Foreclosure in New York StateIn the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and in an effort to reduce foreclosures, the State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA) asked the Capstone team to evaluate their foreclosure prevention and refinance program Keep the Dream, fostered under New …
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Toward inclusive leadership scholarship: Inviting the excluded to theorize collective leadershipGrowing interest in collective leadership challenges the heroic models of the leadership canon. In a post-leadership world, collective leadership would not represent a different form of leadership, but instead a broader lens to look for leadership. …
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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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Alumni in Action: Fighting for Immigrants' RightsJavier Valdés (MUP) serves as Co-Executive Director of Make The Road NY, the largest immigrant base-building group in New York. Since the 2016 election, Valdés has strengthened Make The Road's commitment to ensuring that immigrants’ rights and dignity are …
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Do interest rates matter? Credit demand in the Dhaka Slums“Best practice” in microfinance holds that interest rates should be set at profit-making levels, based on the belief that even poor customers favor access to finance over low fees. Despite this core belief, little direct evidence exists on the price …
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The ‘Own Children’ Fertility Estimation Procedure: A ReappraisalThe Full Birth History has become the dominant source of estimates of fertility levels and trends for countries lacking complete birth registration. An alternative, the ‘Own Children’ method, derives fertility estimates from household age distributions, …
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Equity InequityThe article reports on racial inequality. The author says the while African-Americans do earn less than whites, asset gaps remain large even when black and white families at the same income levels are compared. For instance, at the lower end of the …
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PADM-GP.2445
Poverty, Inequality, and PolicyThis course examines the nature and extent of poverty primarily in the U.S. but with a comparative perspective (developed countries in Europe). To start, this course will focus on how poverty is defined and measured. It will proceed to explore how …Publication
Do Homeowners Mark to Market? A Comparison of Self-reported and Market-based Home Value Estimates During the Housing Boom and BustThis paper examines homeowners’ self-reported values in the American Housing Survey and the Health and Retirement Study from the start of the recent housing price run-ups through recent price declines. We compare zip code level market-based estimates of …
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"Rethinking Poverty, Household Finance, and Microfinance"High-frequency data show that the material condition of poverty is created by the interaction of insufficiency × instability × illiquidity. Reducing instability and/or illiquidity can thus reduce exposure to poverty even when average earning power …
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Program Requirement ChecksheetThis checksheet is intended for students admitted through fall 2025. EXECUTIVE MPA (EMPA): GLOBAL PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS I. Core Courses [9 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive all core …
Faculty Profile
Wayne Suiter MatamorosWayne is a strategic design leader with over a decade and a half of experience in applying design methods to complex challenges in both the public and private sector around the globe. More recently, Wayne served as the Chief Strategy Officer for …
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Travel-Time Savings Resulting from Investments in the NYC Transit SystemThe Move NY campaign has developed a plan to relieve traffic congestion and improve roads, bridges, and public transit in New York City. The plan calls for an overhaul of the City’s current tolling regime by implementing congestion pricing, which would …
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Linsey EdwardsLinsey Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University with an affiliate appointment in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her research focuses on uncovering factors that contribute to persisting racial inequality and …