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Promises Kept: Enforcement and the Role of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in an Economy… and credit associations (roscas) are a popular form of informal finance in developing countries. This paper examines the rosca's ability to enforce its terms of membership and the implications that this has for their … Promises Kept: Enforcement and the Role of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in an Economy …
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Beyond Individual Creativity: The Superadditive Benefits of Multicultural Experience for Collective Creativity in Culturally Diverse Teams… recent research has consistently demonstrated the benefits of multicultural experience for individual-level creativity, … We predicted that multicultural experience among members of a collective would enhance joint creativity in a … Specifically, dyads performed best on a creative task in terms of fluency, flexibility, and novelty—three classic …
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Growing Older in Hong Kong, New York and London… national governments around the world, the consequences of these trends for quality of life in cities has only … status of older persons, as well as the availability and use of health, social and long-term care across and within … York City and London, which are more comparable in terms of population size and economic characteristics. …
Capstone Projects
Diverse Recruitment… and to become future community leaders. Due to a variety of factors in the education reform space, EHTP is currently … volunteers to meet growing needs. EHTP enlisted the help of a Capstone team to develop a recruitment strategy. The … of EHTP is able to mirror the makeup of East Harlem in terms of race, ethnicity, and personal and professional …
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Twitter Response to the United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations against Screening with Prostate Specific Antigen… tweets in the 24 hour periods following the release of the USPSTF draft and finalized recommendations. We … rate per hour and developed a coding system to assess type of user and sentiment expressed in tweets and linked … respectively. Tweet rate nearly doubled within two hours of both announcements. Fewer than 10% of tweets expressed an …
Capstone Projects
Implementing an Electronic Medical Record for Village Care Nursing Home… The Capstone team was assigned the project of developing a technology implementation plan to help … meet the regulatory challenges posed by the dispersion of the nursing home. The tasks of Phase I included identifying the major regulatory …
Capstone Projects
Implementing an Electronic Medical Record for Village Care Nursing Home… The Capstone team was assigned the project of developing a technology implementation plan to help … meet the regulatory challenges posed by the dispersion of the nursing home. The tasks of Phase I included identifying the major regulatory …
Capstone Projects
Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Does Self-Regulation Work?… The mission of the Wise Giving Alliance (WGA), a national organization … Bureau, is to monitor nonprofits that receive the majority of their funding from private contributions. Nonprofits are … are required to file. Defining financial accountability in terms of percent spent on program services (dollars spent on …
News
NYU Wagner Labor Initiative is Launched to Explore Role of State and Local Government in Protecting and Advancing Workers’ Rights… York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service has launched the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative , a new hub of research and practice that will focus on the role and … misclassification of workers, and employment contract terms (i.e., non-compete or forced arbitration provisions) …
Capstone Projects
Comprehensive Community Based Public Health From Jamkhed to San Francisco Libre and Back… The General Board of Global Ministries conducts off-site training to supplement the work of existing human service activities in developing countries. … was asked to evaluate the success of these workshops in terms of relevance to the trainees, the organization they …
Stories
Black: One Word; Different People… black experience and what black history means to each of them, featuring Kevin Collymore, Assistant Director of Advising and Student Services, Student Services, and Carla … if they had opinions on the seemingly interchangeable use of the labels African-American and black. Boyle-Lewis …
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PADM-GP.4112
Building Effective Teams… in high-performing teams. We will draw from the fields of psychology, management, strategy, and sociology to discuss … teams. We will also focus on the benefits and challenges of managing diverse teams, using teams in various contexts … techniques for team effectiveness. This course will be of most value to those who have some work or team experience. …Publication
Radical Prostatectomy Improves and Prevents Age Dependent Progression of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms… Purpose : The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms increases with age and impairs quality of life. Radical prostatectomy has been shown to relieve … symptoms at short-term followup but the long-term effect of radical prostatectomy on lower urinary tract symptoms is …
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Pre-Arrival… The Office of Global Services (OGS) provides comprehensive information and advising on the process of getting a Visa and I-20 for your studies at Wagner. … Review this information to ensure you have taken all of the necessary steps to prepare for your arrival to New …
Capstone Projects
Employment Retention for Formerly-Incarcerated Individuals… emphasis to job retention requires study and development of additional workforce development techniques. CEO requested: a review of existing research and analogous programs for potentially useful practices; analysis of employment data maintained by CEO; and an identification …
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Reversal of Fortunes: Low Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s… paper offers new empirical evidence about the prospects of lower-income, US urban neighbourhoods during the 1990s. … Change Database, which offers a balanced panel of census tracts with consistent boundaries from 1970 to 2000 … experiencing a gain in economic status. Secondly, in terms of geographical patterns, it is found that this …
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NYU Wagner External Scholarships Directory… than 25 years old, have already completed the first year of a Bachelor's degree program at any local higher … Amount: Varies Visit Website Royal Thai Embassy Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Scholarships for Thai Students … studying or accepted to study in the US for the need of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Students must be under …
Capstone Projects
Process Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for a New York City After-School Program… from an experienced teaching artist. After eleven years of operation, Opening Act is at a critical stage in its … strategic plan that includes expanding the number of schools it serves, diversifying funding streams, and … tools and protocols can be used to demonstrate the impact of the afterschool program to potential funders. …
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Promoting Transportation Flexibility in Extreme Events through Multi-Modal Connectivity… Extreme events of all kinds are increasing in number, severity, or impacts. … review to characterize multi-modal facilities and their use in extreme events. Recommendations and future research directions are provided for the role of passenger multi-modality to enhance transit flexibility. …
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Using national and local extant data to characterize environmental exposures in the national children's study: Queens County, New York… Children's Study is a long-term epidemiologic study of 100,000 children from 105 locations across the United … States. It will require information on a large number of environmental variables to address its core hypotheses. … study location over time. We present an example on the use of this tiered approach, to tailor the data needs for …
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Public Pensions, Public Budgets, and the Risks of Pension Obligation Bonds… measured within government budgets, how this measurement of resources might affect public budget decisions, and how the interaction of the budget with the actuarial model can lead public budget … of public budgeting coupled with the actuarial model's use of expected investment returns rather than a market …
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Bonding, bridging, and linking: How social capital operated in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina… the disaster and social work literature, particularly in terms of historical oppression and limited economic resources of disadvantaged communities. Social capital in the United …