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Stefanie Zelkind After working as a Jewish communal professional in Israel and the United States for almost a decade, I was eager to supplement my first-hand experience with academic training. The NYU Dual Degree Program afforded me the opportunity to take a deep dive …
Faculty Profile
Paul DiMaggioPaul DiMaggio is Professor of Sociology at New York University with affiliate appointments in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Stern School of Business, and the Center for Data Science. He has written and taught about cultural policy and …
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NYU Wagner alumnus Quemuel Arroyo is recognized by NY State Senate and US Presidential Volunteer Service Award for his leadership and advocacy for the disabledNYU Wagner graduate Quemuel Arroyo (MPA 2020) has been recognized with a New York State legislative resolution for contributions to New Yorkers as a Dominican-American advocate for the disability community. The honor was bestowed by State Senator Luis R. …
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A dialogue on the future of microfinance and international developmentThis dialogue contributes to the 50th anniversary and 200th issue of Mondes en développement ( Developing Worlds ), the French and Belgian journal founded in 1973 by François Perroux of the Collège de France. To mark the anniversary, we discuss what has …
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AcademicsAdvisement and Resources Degree Requirements: Navigate to your specific degree requirements. Quantitative Support: Wagner offers a range of quantitative support. Writing Center: Wagner offers an array of writing-specific activities in order to support …
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Does Knowing Your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Student Loan BorrowersOne in five consumer credit accounts incur late fees each quarter. Evidence on the efficacy of regulations to improve behavior through enhanced disclosure of financial product attributes is mixed. We test a novel form of disclosure that provides borrowers …
Capstone Projects
Developing an Alumni Ambassador ProgramThe Women’s Enterprise Development Center (WEDC) provides women and minorities in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley with opportunities for business ownership. WEDC hosts a 60-hour entrepreneurial training program that assists its students with …
Capstone Projects
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF ACCESS TO SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES ON STUDENT OUTCOMESStudents with special needs have historically been overlooked in the American public school system and only in the last 50 years has the federal government provided explicit protections for these students. Existing literature shows evidence of ongoing and …
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School Cost Accounting: What Do We Know and How Do We Get There?This paper describes a model for assessing and reporting schoollevel resources. State and local decision-makers have been seeking ways to obtain such information for more than a decade, but there is as yet no easy, accessible way to do so and no way to …
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Statistical Analysis for Public and Nonprofit ManagersThis is a comprehensive, clearly written guide to the use of statistical analysis in the management of not-for-profit organizations. The book emphasizes statistical models that use more than one variable and is unique in presenting multivariate statistics …
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Preventable Hospitalizations and Socioeconomic Status"Preventable" hospitalizations have been proposed as indicators of poor health plan performance. In this study of elderly Medicare beneficiaries, however, we found that preventable hospitalizations are also more common among elders of lower socioeconomic …
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Beyond Normative Models and Development Trends: Strategic Design and Implementation of Decentralization in Developing CountriesThis paper considers recent thinking on and experience with decentralization and local government reform in developing countries, primarily from the perspective of national policy. The paper begins by reviewing why decentralization has re-emerged as an …
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Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile BankingMobile banking and related digital financial technologies can make financial services cheaper and more widely accessible in low-income economies, but gender gaps persist. We present evidence from two connected field experiments in Bangladesh designed to …
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The Wagner Experience: Tatiana Zorgno (MPA)"During these two years, I got exposed to the many different things you can do in public service. Before, I was worried that I was going to come into this field and not have enough career options, and now I feel I have too …
Capstone Projects
Development Framework and PlanThe New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) is a leading child welfare agency in New York City and has been in existence since 1875. Their mission is to protect children from abuse and it does so through constantly evolving …
Alumni In Action
Seung Hyun MoonGrowing up in Korea, Seung Hyun Moon (MPA-HPAM 2006) would have never imagined where his career would take him. Once a burgeoning physician, Moon then graduated from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service with an MPA degree in health …
Capstone Projects
A Decade of Voter Identification Laws: The Effect of Stricter Requirements on TurnoutSince 2000, about half of the states have strengthened voter identification requirements, ostensibly to prevent election fraud. Critics assert that these laws fail to increase the integrity of elections and depress turnout by creating a barrier to voting …
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Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, Receives High Distinction for Health Services ResearchSherry Glied, Dean and Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, has been accorded the 2021 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, one of the highest distinctions that researchers in the health services field can achieve. Given by the …
Capstone Projects
ANALYZING THE DEVOLVING WATER SECTOR IN KENYAThe Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is Britain’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. The ODI Development and Public Finance group has been working with NYU to develop an analytical framework for …
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ASSESSING AN ORGANIZATION’S ROLE IN MOVEMENT-BUILDINGTakeRoot Justice (TRJ) leverages legal and policy expertise to help community-driven movements dismantle systems of racial, economic, and social oppression. TRJ engaged a Capstone team to evaluate its role in community campaign advancement and ensure that …
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#MyWagnerLife: María Paz Hermosilla (MPA-PNP) TODAY!Follow current student @mphermosilla as she takes us through a day in the life at @nyuniversity #MyWagnerLife pic.twitter.com/e0kmAIglmf — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) March 4, 2015 Looking forward to following @mphermosilla tomorrow as she tweets …
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Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAPParticipants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail recertification are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevant. We find that later …
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Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approachBACKGROUND: Elevated concentrations of mercury have been documented in fish in Lake Chapala in central Mexico, an area that is home to a large subsistence fishing community. However, neither the extent of human mercury exposure nor its sources and routes …
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Symbolic Politics in the Information Age: The 1996 Republican Presidential Campaigns in CyberspaceThis paper traces the use of the World Wide Web as a medium of political communication during the 1996 American presidential campaigns. Beginning with the Republican campaigns’ use of the medium during the primary election season, a typology of uses of …