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Welfare Program PerformancePublic agencies are increasingly expected to track their performance according to established criteria--to be held accountable for the expenditure of public funds and show that funds are being used to achieve intended outcomes. This analysis of South …
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The Role of the Real City in Cyberspace: Understanding Regional Variations in Internet Accessibility and UtilizationSince 1993, when the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, was released into the public domain, the Internet has evolved from an obscure academic and military research network into an international agglomeration of public and private, local and global …
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Primary care, race and mortality in the United StatesThis study used US state-level data from 1985 to 1995 to examine the relationship of primary care resources and income inequality with all-cause mortality within the entire population, and in black and white populations. The study is a pooled ecological …
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How Social Media Moves New York, Part 2: Recommended Social Media Policy for Transportation ProvidersSocial media networks allow transportation providers to reach large numbers of people simultaneously and without a fee, essential factors for the millions of commuters and leisure travelers moving through the New York region every day. This report, based …
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Achieving Horizontal Equity: Must We Have A Single-Payer Health System?The question posed in this paper is whether single-payer health care systems are more likely to provide equal treatment for equal need (horizontal equity) than are multipayer systems. To address this question, we compare access to primary and specialty …
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The Civil Service and National Security Personnel Improvement ActIt was twenty-five years ago that this Committee took up the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. That statute reflected an effort to modernize a personnel system that had not been reformed since 1946, and addressed many of the issues embedded in this bill. …
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Welfare Reform in Philadelphia: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and NeighborhoodsThe 1996 welfare reform law called for profound changes in welfare policy, including a five-year time limit on federally funded cash assistance (known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF), stricter work requirements, and greater …
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Decentralization, Externalities, and EfficiencyIn the competitive model, externalities lead to inefficiencies, and inefficiencies increase with the size of externalities. However, as argued by Coase, these problems may be mitigated in a decentralized system through voluntary coordination We show how …
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Alumni Spotlight: Brittany Edghill (MPA-PNP 2022)Brittany Edghill (MPA-PNP 2022) Program Manager for Diversity Initiatives, Office of Science and Research, NYU Grossman School of Medicine In your current role, you oversee diversity initiatives at the Grossman School of Medicine. What drew you to this …
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Test–retest reliability of a self-administered Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in primary care patientsThe time required to conduct drug and alcohol screening has been a major barrier to its implementation in mainstream healthcare settings. Because patient self-administered tools are potentially more efficient, we translated the Alcohol, Smoking and …
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Metropolitan Manila Slum Upgrading Background Memos: Housing Institutions, Policy, Financing, and Data GatheringUnder a public sector decentralization process in the Philippines, Metro Manila's seventeen independent Local Government Units (LGUs) have been mandated with the challenge of addressing the needs of the sizeable slum populations living within their …
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Federal funding of doctoral recipients: What can be learned from linked dataWan Ying Chang, Wei Cheng, Julia Lane, Bruce A. Weinberg …
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Introduction and motivationKaye Husbands Fealing, Julia Lane, John L. King, Stanley Johnson …
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Measuring the Economic Value of Research: The Case of Food SafetyJulia Lane, Kaye Husbands-Fealing, John King, Stanley Johnson …
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The Impact of State Variations in Vehicle Mix: The Impact on Traffic FatalitiesThe Capstone team measured the impact of variations in the vehicle population across the United States. In 1975, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in order to decrease dependence on foreign oil. As part of that Act, the government …
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The Impact of Income and Immigration on Residential Segregation: An Examination of Hispanic/White and Black/White Segregation in the 1990sThis study utilizes 1990 and 2000 Census data to examine the impact of income and immigration on residential segregation in the 1990s. The Capstone team confirms what researchers found in the 1980s: an increase in median Black income has only a slight, …
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The Impact of State Variations in Vehicle Mix: The Impact on Traffic FatalitiesThe Capstone team measured the impact of variations in the vehicle population across the United States. In 1975, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in order to decrease dependence on foreign oil. As part of that Act, the government …
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The Impact of Income and Immigration on Residential Segregation: An Examination of Hispanic/White and Black/White Segregation in the 1990sThis study utilizes 1990 and 2000 Census data to examine the impact of income and immigration on residential segregation in the 1990s. The Capstone team confirms what researchers found in the 1980s: an increase in median Black income has only a slight, …
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Public Sector Capacity Building and Trade PoliciesThe United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has embarked on a large initiative to analyze the impact of globalization on developing nation-states through their Regional Initiative on Human Development Reports for Asia and the Pacific. Through the …
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INITIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING FOR LODGING SECTOR EMPLOYEESEnd Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism-United States (ECPAT) strives to create a world in which no child is bought, sold, or used for sex. ECPAT works with the hospitality industry to provide hotel staff with training on the commercial sexual …
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Public Policy Analysis MinorAs of Fall 2024, students can no longer declare the Public Policy Analysis minor and should declare the Public Policy minor instead. Students who have already declared the minor can complete it following the criteria below. The Public Policy Analysis …
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Mount Vernon east station area downtown revitalization planThe City of Mount Vernon is an inner-ring suburb of New York City located approximately 13 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. Like many urban areas across the country, Mount Vernon is confronting a range of challenges to its economy and quality of life. At …
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Making the case for New York City’s age-friendly local business initiativeOver the last few years, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has seen how store layout and indifferent service can make older New Yorkers feel marginalized and discourage them from shopping independently. Given the projected growth of the older …