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Raising the Stakes: Experimental Evidence on the Endogeneity of Taxpayer MistakesRecent evidence suggests consumers fail to account for taxes that are excluded from a good’s displayed price. What is less understood is whether and how such “salience effects” depend on the magnitude of the tax. We conduct a laboratory shopping …
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Who’s Involved The members of the International Working Group included: Marco Cangiano served as Assistant Director of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department and Head of its Public Financial Management Division, as well as a member of the Public Expenditure and …
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An Intellectual History of Institutional Theory: Looking Back to Move ForwardAlong with the advancement and growth of institutional theory over the past seven decades has come increasing plurality in its theoretical and empirical approaches, along with a number of critiques about its coherence and impact. We address these …
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Social Enterprise Created at NYU Wagner is Improving Student AttendanceIt has practically become the stuff of legend: The chance meeting of Miriam Altman and Alexandra Meis on their first day at NYU Wagner. The two were brought together at a faculty mixer. With a shared background working on the front lines in the New York …
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Immigration and the Politics of SkillSkill has played a central role in immigration scholarship, most notably in a protracted debate over whether ‘unskilled’ immigrants threaten job security for less or moderately educated native-born workers. In recent years, scholars have re-examined …
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NYU Tandon School of EngineeringOVERVIEW While we cannot guarantee capacity for NYU Wagner students in NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon)'s courses you are welcome to request registration for an approved course. NYU Wagner students who wish to take an elective at the NYU …
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NYU Wagner Alumni Launch New Public Policy Wiki – PolicyAtlasIn the US alone, there are 90,056 distinct governmental entities. But nowhere on the Internet can a policy maker find information on how a policy solution has worked for jurisdictions beyond his or her own. Enter Kevin Hansen , Matthew Lisiecki , and Neil …
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Natasha IskanderNatasha N. Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across …
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Pathways After Default: What Happens to Distressed Mortgage Borrowers and Their HomesWe use a detailed dataset of seriously delinquent mortgages to examine the dynamic process of mortgage default—from initial delinquency and default to final resolution of the loan and disposition of the property. We estimate a two-stage competing risk …
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Anisha ChikarmaneCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I lead global strategy & operations for the Google Assistant (Google's voice assistant) Partnerships group - in other words, I help Google's BD team identify, prioritize, and launch initiatives with …
Capstone Projects
INVESTIGATING URBAN FINANCE AND THE FORM OF THE CITY IN INDONESIAThe United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) Local Development Finance team is committed to facilitating effective urban infrastructure financing solutions in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs). As LDCs experience rapid urbanization, …
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TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT INDEXThe office of Downtown Revitalization and Transit-Oriented Development at the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning (SCEDP) promotes the development, growth, and retention of industry clusters that facilitate job opportunities, …
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EVALUATING PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR BIPOC SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSFor over 35 years, Echoing Green has been building a dynamic ecosystem to support and invest in emerging social entrepreneurs who work at the intersection of global justice, racial equity, and social innovation. In 2020, Echoing Green launched a $50 …
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REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE WITH A COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAMTrenton, New Jersey has faced a major uptick in gun violence in recent years, particularly among the city’s youth, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the social, economic, and health issues behind it. The Trenton Mayor’s Office engaged a Capstone …
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SUCCESSFUL ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEWLY-FORMED NONPROFITAttachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a Delaware-based nonprofit organization that disseminates a worldwide parenting program fostering strong, healthy relationships in families with infants or toddlers facing adversity. As ABC establishes itself …
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The blind leading: Power reduces awareness of constraintsPrevious research has found that power increases awareness of goal-relevant over goal-irrelevant information. However, this work has failed to distinguish between goal-facilitating and goal-inhibiting information, both of which are goal relevant. The …
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The Political Economy of School Choice: Support for Charter Schools Across States and School DistrictsPublic charter schools are one of the fastest growing education reforms in the US, currently serving more than a million students. Though the movement for greater school choice is widespread, its implementation has been uneven. State laws differ greatly …
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Taxing Over Tax Limits: Evidence from the Past and Policy Lessons for the FutureIt is generally thought that across-the-board tax limits, white encouraging fiscal restraint, create hardships for jurisdictions with above average and uncontrollable needs. Because of the recent imposition of most limits, the conclusion is difficult to …
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Income inequality, primary care, and health outcomes�a critical review of the literatureThis article critically reviews published literature on the relationship between income inequality and health outcomes. Studies are systematically assessed in terms of design, data quality, measures, health outcomes, and covariates analyzed. At least 33 …
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Working Together: Meeting the Challenges of Workforce DiversityThis collection of original manuscripts-representing a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public personnel administration-explores the theme of "problems and prospects" in public personnel administration. The contributions are organized into …
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Mobile Communications and Transportation in Metropolitan RegionsThis study examines the role of mobile communications in urban transportation systems and analyzes American metropolitan regions best positioned to capitalize on the growth of mobile technologies. This paper identifies three critical factors—data …
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Black-white Achievement Gap and Family WealthThis article examines the extent to which family wealth affects the Black–White test score gap for young children based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (aged 3–12). This study found little evidence that wealth mediated the Black–White test …
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The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects on Cognitive AbilityThis study examines how the neighborhood environments experienced over multiple generations of a family influence children's cognitive ability. Building on recent research showing strong continuity in neighborhood environments across generations of family …
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Making the connections: community capacity for tobacco control in an urban African American communityDeveloping community capacity to improve health is a cornerstone of community-based public health. The concept of community capacity reflects numerous facets and dimensions of community life and can have different meanings in different contexts. This …