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#MyWagnerLife: Michael Czaczkes (MPA-PNP)… commute begin #ParkSlope . Mass transit: vital part of any @NYUWagner student & any New Yorker. #MyWagnerLife … Wagner (@NYUWagner) April 23, 2015 . @NYUWagner tons of overlap.Taking class on comprehensive planning & today I … — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) April 23, 2015 @NYUWagner use degree to help New Yorkers: ensuring affordable housing, …
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A Resource and Activity Plan… organization exclusively dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity through the protection, improvement, and restoration of natural ecosystems. The Catalan NGO is re-launching their … failed during the dot-com crash in late 2000. The job of the Capstone project was to work with the support of the …
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Are Land Use Planning and Congestion Pricing Mutually Supportive? Evidence From a Pilot Mileage Fee Program in Portland, OR… Congestion pricing and land use planning have been proposed as two promising strategies … often viewed by their proponents as substitutive instead of complementary to each other. Using data from a pilot … pricing and land use planning were mutually supportive in terms of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduction. We examined …
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Factors that distinguish high-performing accountable care organizations in the medicare shared savings program… To identify factors that promote the effective performance of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare … SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Data come from a convenience sample of 16 Medicare Shared Savings ACOs that were organized around large physician groups. We use claims data from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare …
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INITIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING FOR LODGING SECTOR EMPLOYEES… staff with training on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. ECPAT enlisted a Capstone team to measure how … if the training program achieved its intended outcomes of increased awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children, increased … INITIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING FOR LODGING SECTOR EMPLOYEES …
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Performance Improvement Initiative… hospital system in the United States, is comprised of eleven acute care hospitals, five long term care … than fifty satellite clinics. To help meet the challenges of managed care and competition, HHC has made customer service and the development of a patient-friendly environment a priority. In the Fall of …
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The Value of Capstone Projects to Participating Client Agencies… where students combine theory and practice for the benefit of an outside agency. New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (NYU Wagner) has devoted a great deal of thought and effort to strengthening and sustaining its … The Value of Capstone Projects to Participating Client Agencies …
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Best Management Practices for Stormwater Management… "PlaNYC is a comprehensive effort carried out by the City of New York to address the new pressure on the city's … Office asked the Capstone team to assist in Water, one of the five initiatives. Working alongside the Mayor's Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability (OLTPS), the …
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Long-Term Associations of Homelessness with Children's Well-Being… To analyze long-term consequences of homelessness, the authors compared 388 formerly homeless … Long-Term Associations of Homelessness with Children's Well-Being …
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Wagner Consulting Group Hosts Consulting Bootcamp with Cristian Ariza (MPA-HPAM 2018)… a proud Wagner alumnus. The one-hour workshop consisted of a brief introduction to consulting, an interview … Ariza. Students were able to apply their analytical, out-of-the-box thinking to establish a sustainable solution as a … the Bootcamp with an insightful presentation on the basics of case studies and interview expectations. The presentation …
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Alumni Spotlight: Moses Mansu (MPA 2000)… What motivated you to attend the Wagner School of Public Service and how did it impact your understanding of health and healthcare? I relocated from Ghana to the … vaccinations. One well discussed example of this is the use of a racial quotient in the calculation of kidney …
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Long-term associations of homelessness with children’s well-being… To analyze long-term consequences of homelessness, the authors compared 388 formerly homeless … Long-term associations of homelessness with children’s well-being …
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Notre systeme de sante aux etats unis est tres diversifie et complexe… Interview of Victor Rodwin by Anaïs Fossier …
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Alumni Spotlight: Anjana Sreedhar (MPA-HPAM 2020)… Sreedhar (MPA-HPAM 2020) is deeply committed to the work of social justice and equity in the healthcare space. Anjana recently published Health Care of a Thousand Slights, Connecting Legacy to Access to … to take from the book is that everything is connected in terms of the way we live our lives and how we access public …
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Welfare Caseload Change: An Alternative Approach… in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Of existing studies based on time series or state panel data, some tend to underplay the role of welfare reform. All say little about that policies drove … explainers of change, along with some demographic terms and unemployment. These policies in turn are tied to …
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Pathways to Work for Low Income Workers: The Effect of Work in the Temporary Help Industry… new evidence to inform the policy debate about the effect of a newly important industry—the temporary help industry—on the labor market outcomes of low-income workers and those workers who are at risk of … same period. These findings, if correct, would support the use of temporary agencies by welfare programs. …
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Monitoring the pulse of hospital activity: Electronic health record utilization as a measure of care intensity… outcomes, suggesting that decreases in overall intensity of care may have important clinical effects. We describe a new measure of hospital intensity of care based on utilization of the … of care at our academic medical center by monitoring the use of the EHR in 2011. Our primary measure, termed EHR …
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Capstone: Learning In Action… Regardless of program/specialization, all students share the same … and relevant stakeholders How to function as a member of a consulting team working for a client How to conduct and … necessarily be specifically tailored to your primary area of interest. It is, however, a chance to gain useful …
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Institutional Decision-Making… scientific community has begun to focus upon the reality of global climate change and sophisticated research … far considered largely in a global context, in very local terms. As research and discussion of climate change begin to … and implement practical adaptation policies affecting land use, infrastructure, natural resource management, public …
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Rebates as Incentives: The Effects of a Gym Membership Reimbursement Program… rich experimental literature demonstrates positive effects of pay-per-visit fitness incentives. However, most insurance … the first evidence in the literature on gym incentives of this structure, exploiting the introduction and subsequent discontinuation of a large-scale wellness program at a major American …
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Notes from the Underground: The Mass Transit Response to Terrorism… to terrorist aggression, these agencies must come to terms with complex policy issues and make a noticeable shift … the latest responses by public transit to the events of 9/11 in the New York region. It is the intention of this study to use these agencies experiences as a framework for further …
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Advanced Certificate and Non-Degree Application Checklist… be submitted by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. Any mailed application material must be … submit are entirely your own original work. If necessary, use of proper references and quotes is permissible. The use of … reverse chronological order and should indicate the dates of attendance and degree(s) earned. If you do not have …
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Measuring Client Satisfaction… The Legal Aid Society of New York has been providing legal counsel and … The clients experience of service delivery is measured in terms of level of satisfaction, how long clients wait before … training for the Legal Aid Societys staff on how to use the data collection tools and provided analysis of the …
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The Microfinance Business Model: Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit… evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then depend on low costs. This paper calculates the costs of microcredit and other elements of the microcredit business … lent and $51 of subsidy per borrower (in PPP-adjusted terms). Relatively low levels of median subsidy suggest that …