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Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy… in civic engagement, politics, and advocacy. Learn more about the Advocacy and Politcal Action specialization … to manage public resources effectively. Learn more about the Finance specialization … challenges and foster development worldwide. Learn more about the International Development specialization …
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Neighborhood Effects on Health: Exploring the Links and Assessing the Evidence… characteristics often do not explain exactly what it is about a neighborhood that affects health. Definitions of …
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Infant Antibiotic Exposures and Early-Life Body Mass… exposures in infants, and in light of the growing concerns about childhood obesity, further studies are needed to …
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Retirement Contribution Rate Nudges and Plan Participation: Evidence from a Field ExperimentSimple interventions like changing the default or sending a short message can induce individuals to save more for retirement. However, messages that emphasize high savings rates may increase the amount that savings plan participants save while reducing …
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A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Attitudes toward HIV Testing in the Dental Setting… lack primary medical providers. However, little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of this type of …
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Public Infrastructure Service Flexibility for Response and Recovery in the September 11th, 2001 Attacks at the World Trade CenterAfter the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the ability to rapidly restore transportation, power, water, and environmental services to users was absolutely critical, especially to those involved in the …
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Developing a Measurable and Impactful Grant-Making ProcessVictory Housing, the nonprofit housing development arm of the Archdiocese of Washington, provides affordable housing and related support services for mixed-income seniors and low-income families in DC and Maryland. Victory Housing uses donated funds to …
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Risk Communication for Catastrophic Events: Results from Focus Groups… focus groups - two for each type of release - each lasted about two hours. Participants were professionals normally …
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Use of Preventive Care Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance.… to be better educated, healthier, and more optimistic about the benefits of preventive care than their FFS …
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Inputs to Development: How the Millennium Development Goals Affect Nonprofit ResourcesA set of eight global priorities to eradicate extreme poverty, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were met with great optimism in 2000. While many studies have examined developmental progress in the intervening 15 years, how much of …
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PNP - Advocacy - Checksheet… before your campaign becomes public, you need to think about mission, strategy, teams and the data necessary for … knowledge in the specific issue area you most care about through these courses, and consider how to apply your …
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Bachelor's-Master's Track Application ChecklistFill out your online application. Students must join the Bachelor’s-Master’s track while they are still matriculated in their undergraduate program. They must then formally apply to NYU Wagner during their senior year by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on …
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Financial Aid at NYU… include our federal school code number 002785 . Questions about your student loans? At NYU, federal financial aid and … Aid . They are your first point of contact for questions about your federal student loan package . To speak to a … but funds become increasingly limited. To learn more about federal and state education funding programs available …
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Maria Ponce Sevilla… to set boundaries. But there's something so beautiful about seeing tangible results and actual change. Which is why … the community the way it has so far. Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? In March 2023, I became the … respond to what their needs are. Our community members are about 90% women, their children and occasionally their …
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Converging Evidence for Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Test Scores: An Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Observational Comparison… segregation at the neighborhood level, generating concern about whether neighborhood environments themselves may … question for research and public policy is to learn more about the conditions under which neighborhoods matter for … sufficiently strong research designs to support inferences about neighborhood effects on children’s outcomes, and by the …
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Sharad Aggarwal, Ellen O’Connell … (MPA 2008) and Ellen O’Connell (MPA 1990) recently shared about the efforts their organizations are undertaking. … by the disaster.” “In the coming days we will know more about the ways that the IRC can make the greatest positive …
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Foreign Defense Procurement and Its Implications for National Security and the Domestic Labor MarketThe Congressional Research Service engaged the Capstone team to gain a better understanding of foreign defense procurement and its potential implications for national security and the domestic labor market. Using data acquired from the DD350, the …
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Student Veteran Alexander Marte Shares His Story and Goals for the Future"How can we change our systems to focus on specific veterans issues, like homelessness and mental health?" – Alexander Marte (MUP 2017), U.S. Marine Corps …
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The Port Authority Region and Foreign Exports: Prepared for the Centennial Symposium of The Port Authority of New York and New JerseyDuring the past hundred years, the Port Authority region has undergone a dramatic transformation, from an economy based on manufacturing to one tied to advanced business services. This report highlights the way in which services have emerged as the …
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A Trapped-Factors Model of InnovationWhen will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the US or EU? We develop a model where factors of production have costs of adjustment and so are partially “trapped” in producing old …
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Student Dejian Zeng Worked in an iPhone Factory in China to See How Workers Were Treated… for room and board. Rather, he went there to find out about the working conditions first-hand. In the summer of … stayed for six weeks, subsequently giving an interview about the experience to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in … kind of anxiety in the factories,” he explains. “They care about it. They are nervous about it.” …
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Helping Without Harming: The Instructor’s Feedback Dilemma in Debriefing—A Case Study… be more effective including (1) making generous inferences about the learners’ qualities, (2) normalizing the challenges …
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Climate Week at NYU Wagner: Six Events Exploring Timely, Global Issues … policy experts from across the globe for conversations about critical issues in climate policy and the latest … small acts can go a long way, urging attendees to think about ways they can make an impact in their own worlds. … now more than ever. Panelists tackled questions about the challenges of leveraging the role of director, …
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Using Mixture Models to Detect Sex Bias in Health Outcomes in BangladeshMany interesting economic hypotheses entail differences in behaviors of groups within a population, but analyses of pooled samples shed only partial light on underlying segmentations. Finite mixture models are considered as an alternative to methods based …