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NYU Graduate School of Arts and ScienceOverview While we cannot guarantee capacity in NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science (NYU GSAS), you are welcome to request registration for an approved course. Wagner students who wish to take an elective at a department at NYU GSAS must follow the …
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First-generation college students share unique experiences in panel eventOn November 30, NYU Wagner hosted "Trailblazers: First Gen College Students,” a panel and networking opportunity focused on the unique experiences of first-generation college students. The event was co-sponsored by the Wagner Student Association and the …
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Patient Centered Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Treatment: Predictors of Satisfaction Up to 2 Years After Open Radical Retropubic ProstatectomyPurpose : Few groups have examined satisfaction after prostate cancer treatment. We determined 1) predictors of satisfaction between 3 months and 2 years after open radical retropubic prostatectomy, and 2) whether these factors are time dependent. …
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Our CommunityNYU Wagner is a diverse community that shares the common goal of improving societal and individual well-being. If you want to be part of this effort, join an online community unlike any other. As you pursue your Online Master of Health Administration …
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Christian DiPalermoChristian DiPalermo is the Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P), New York's only city-wide independent advocacy organization for all parks across the five boroughs. He manages a full-time staff of ten - and several interns, who work to …
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Irfan HasanHow would you describe your experience as an NYU Wagner student? It was helpful to be in a class with peers who also had practical experience prior to returning to graduate school. Faculty members with meaningful connections to public and nonprofit …
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Can a Little 'Nudge' Help Solve the Plastic Bag Crisis?Though it may seem that they’ve always been part of American consumerism and convenience, plastic shopping bags first showed up in grocery stores in the 1970s—several years after a family friend of Dustin Hoffman’s titular character in The Graduate …
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Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain AreasAlthough there is strong evidence that living in high-opportunity neighborhoods can improve the long-run educational and economic outcomes of children, translating this into practical advice for planners is difficult. There is little consensus about how …
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and FirmsJulia Lane, Jeff Smith, Harry Holzer, Fredrik Andersson and David Rosenblum …
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Moroccan Migrants as Unlikely Captains of Industry: Remittances, Financial Intermediation, and La Banque Centrale PopulaireThe impact that remittances – the monies that migrants send home – have on the development on migrant-sending economies is a matter of considerable debate. This essay presents the case of Morocco and its state-controlled bank, La Banque Centrale Populaire …
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A Room of One’s Own or A Room with a View? Housing and Educational StratificationThis study attempts to understand the role that housing plays in the system of social stratification. First, it generates a model of how housing outcomes are stratified along dimensions of socioeconomic status and race. Second, it asks what role housing …
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Financial Incentives and FertilityThis paper investigates how fertility responds to financial incentives. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of over 300,000 Israeli women during the period 1999–2005 with comprehensive information on their fertility histories, education, …
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Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategiesWhile current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and …
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The Emergence of the Super-Commuter: Update with 2010 DataThis update to the “Emergence of the Super-Commuter” report released in February 2012 uses recently released 2010 home-to-work flows data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics OnTheMap tool to examine whether the …
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Public Mandates, Market Monitoring, and Nonprofit Financial DisclosuresPublic officials have recently sought increased regulation of financial disclosures from not-for-profit organizations as a means of improving accountability with the public. One objective of this study is to examine whether not-for-profit entities already …
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The Microfinance PromiseThe article presents information about a set of financial institutions in underdeveloped countries which are striving to alleviate poverty by providing financial services to low-income households. These institutions, united under the banner of …
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The Organization of Schooling and Adolescent DevelopmentInvesting in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities takes a theoretically exciting and socially critical view of human development and the power of context to shape positive outcomes. Co-editors Kenneth I. Maton, Cynthia J. Schellenbach, Bonnie J. …
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Population Health and the Academic Medical Center: The Time Is RightOptimizing the health of populations, whether defined as persons receiving care from a health care delivery system or more broadly as persons in a region, is emerging as a core focus in the era of health care reform. To achieve this goal requires an …
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Other Involvement OpportunitiesPeer Advisors Current students play an integral role in welcoming the incoming class to the Wagner community. Peer advisors share everything from community norms and personal experiences, to insider information -- like the best places to eat and study – …
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Operationalizing Code Blue for Subway OutreachFounded in 1971, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) is one of New York’s leading housing and homeless services providers. With its $68 million budget, BRC operates 27 programs designed to help clients achieve self-sufficiency. Last July, BRC contracted …
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Understanding the Unintended Effects of Youth-Targeted Alcohol Control PoliciesAfter many studies conducted during the 1970s found that a lower drinking age had an effect upon the number of motor vehicle crashes involving teens, many stakeholders began to call for an increase in the minimum legal drinking age. While many states …
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Green Roofs: A Cost Effective Policy for New York City?Green roofs serve as an innovative strategy to help cities develop sustainable practices that contribute to the restoration of their natural habitat. Dense urban development and neglect have jeopardized New York Citys environment and created a situation …
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St. George Ferry Terminal - Affordable Housing Needs and OptionsBetween 2000 and 2005 the median rent and home value of Staten Island's Community District 1 increased by 33 and 110 percent, respectively, outpacing the only 11 percent increase in median household income. The combination of accelerated housing costs and …
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Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care ProgressThousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their sheer number, as well as their lack of focus, consistency, and organization, limits their …