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Vanessa L. Deane to serve as Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at Sorbonne Université in Paris, FranceVanessa L. Deane will serve as Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France during the Fall 2022 semester. In this capacity, she endeavors to explore the praxis of climate justice, urban development, and local governance …
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Independent Reading PolicyMaster's Students Independent reading (similar to independent study) must be approved and supervised by a full-time Wagner faculty member and should be arranged well in advance of the start of the term. Professors are not required to take on any student …
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Pathways to Integration: Examining Changes in the Prevalence of Racially Integrated NeighborhoodsFew researchers have studied integrated neighborhoods, yet these neighborhoods offer an important window into broader patterns of segregation. We explore changes in racial integration in recent decades using decennial census tract data from 1990, 2000, …
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The Effect of Immigrant Communities on Foreign-Born Student AchievementThis paper explores the effect of the human capital characteristics of co-ethnic immigrant communities on foreign-born students’ math achievement. We use data on New York City public school foreign-born students from 39 countries merged with census data …
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Issues of Climate Change and Its Impacts on the Infrastructure in the Metro East Coast (MEC) Region of the USThe infrastructure of the Metro East Coast region (MEC, with New York City at its core) is the largest, oldest, densest, and busiest in the nation. It serves some 20 million people and built assets exceed $1 trillion. Currently there is considerable …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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Low Response Rate Schools in Surveys of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: Possible Biases, Possible SolutionObjectives. This investigation examined the effectiveness of intensive efforts to include frequently absent students in order to reduce bias in classroom-based studies. Methods. Grade 10 students in 13 New York City high schools (n = 2049) completed self …
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Propensity score matching methods for non-experimental causal studiesThis paper considers causal inference and sample selection bias in nonexperimental settings in which (i) few units in the nonexperimental comparison group are comparable to the treatment units, and (ii) selecting a subset of comparison units similar to …
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Two-Year Impacts of a Universal School-Based Social-Emotional and Literacy Intervention: An Experiment in Translational Developmental ResearchThis study contributes to ongoing scholarship at the nexus of translational research, education reform, and the developmental and prevention sciences. It reports 2-year experimental impacts of a universal, integrated school-based intervention in …
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The $5 man: the underground economic response to a large cigarette tax increase in New York CityOBJECTIVES: We examined the mechanisms by which living in a disadvantaged minority community influences smoking and illegal cigarette sale and purchasing behaviors after a large cigarette tax increase. METHODS: Data were collected from 14 focus groups …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Bus Priority PracticesThe purpose of this effort has been to foster a dialogue among peers at transportation and planning agencies about their experiences with promoting public transit and, in particular, the challenges they face related to bus rapid transit (BRT) projects, as …
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Disaster Forensics: Leveraging Crisis Information Systems for Social ScienceThis paper contributes to the literature on information systems in crisis management by providing an overview of emerging technologies for sensing and recording sociological data about disasters. These technologies are transforming our capacity to gather …
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Classroom Based Surveys of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior: Reducing the Bias of AbsenteeismObjectives. This investigation examined the effectiveness of intensive efforts to include frequently absent students in order to reduce bias in classroom-based studies. Methods. Grade 10 students in 13 New York City high schools (n = 2049) completed …
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A review of pharmacological interactions between HIV or hepatitis C virus medications and opioid agonist therapy: implications and management for clinical practiceGlobal access to opioid agonist therapy and HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is expanding but when used concurrently, problematic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions may occur. Articles published from 1966 to 2012 in Medline were …
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NYU Wagner Launches Online Master of Health Administration (MHA) Degree Program for Healthcare ProfessionalsAs marketplace demand for skilled medical and health service managers grows strongly throughout the US, NYU Wagner is introducing an Online Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree program , Sherry Glied, the school’s dean, announced today. The …
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The Effect of Tax and Expenditure Limitations on Revenue Volatility: Evidence from ColoradoMuch of the research on tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) focuses on the impact that limits have on the size of the public sector or the distribution of expenditures at the state and local levels. While these results shed light on the extent to which …
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Estimating the Impact of Street Cuts on Pavement LongevityThe New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) works to provide safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods, and to maintain and enhance the transportation infrastructure. Pavement management is a key part of this …
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Best Practice Analysis of Business Lending Credit UnionsThe National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions provides safe and responsible financial services to underserved communities. Since 1974, the Federation has been promoting financial inclusion by organizing, supporting, and investing in …
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Process Evaluation of Justice for Our Neighbors ProgramEstablished in 1999, Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) is a program of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Its mission is a faith-driven ministry welcoming immigrants into churches and communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal …
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Urban development of Lingang, ShanghaiThe China Center for Urban Development (CCUD) is a public institution of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Since 1998, CCUD has provided guidance for 711 pilot cities under NDRC’s program to address major issues such as urbanization …
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In Knickman and Kovner (eds.) 2015. Health Care Delivery in the United States,Windows can sometimes be mirrors. A look at health systems abroad can enable us to develop a better understanding of our health system in the United States. An international perspective suggests that the United States has the most expensive health care …
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Does Being an Immigrant Student Have a Differential Effect in OECD Versus Non-OECD Countries?As a result of intensified globalization, immigrants have become an increasingly important component of economies and societies in countries across the world. The Capstone team sought to answer the following question: within the realm of education, how do …
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Developing a Cost Benefit Analysis MethodologyJamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) strives to provide accessible, cost-effective, high-quality health care. Recently, JHMC has implemented three pilot care-transition programs: 1) The Intensive Multidisciplinary Primary Care Team (IMPACT), 2) the …