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A Regional Review of Patterns and Innovations in African Local Government Expenditures on Managing HIV/AIDSThe Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa (MDPESA) is a capacity building facility dedicated to fostering effective self-governance at the local government level in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Capstone project supported MDPESA’s …
Alumni In Action
Amanda V. AlampiHave you found any advantages to being a part of the NYU Wagner alumni network? The alumni network is my to-go place for any problem I'm having at work. Some days I need a good consult from a former classmate or a faculty member on a challenge I'm …
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Beyond Individual Creativity: The Superadditive Benefits of Multicultural Experience for Collective Creativity in Culturally Diverse TeamsAlthough recent research has consistently demonstrated the benefits of multicultural experience for individual-level creativity, its potential advantages for collective creativity in culturally diverse teams have yet to be explored. We predicted that …
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Measuring the built environment for physical activity: State of the sciencePhysical inactivity is one of the most important public health issues in the U.S. and internationally. Increasingly, links are being identified between various elements of the physical—or built—environment and physical activity. To understand the impact …
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The Economics of MicrofinanceThe microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy …
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Non-Wagner Studentsrequesting enrollment in wagner courses Non-Wagner students are welcome to request enrollment in Wagner courses. If you wish to request enrollment, you must complete Wagner's cross-registration request form below. Registration requests are processed on a …
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Public Policy & Management MinorIn an age of increasing public-private cooperation, with the traditional lines between government, business, and the nonprofit sectors blurred, NYU Wagner and the NYU Stern School of Business offer a collaborative undergraduate minor in Public Policy and …
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Pension Participation: Do Parents Transmit Time Preference?A wide range of economic and health behaviors are influenced by individuals’ attitudes toward the future—including investments in human capital, health capital and financial capital. Intergenerational correlations in such behaviors suggest an important …
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OPTIMAL CARE COORDINATION PROCESS FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTSNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the leading healthcare institutions in the country. As there is ever-growing regulatory scrutiny on avoidable hospital readmissions and accompanying financial penalties, it is imperative that healthcare …
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Robotic Surgery Claims on United States Hospital WebsitesTo examine the prevalence and content of robotic surgery information presented on websites of U.S. hospitals. We completed a systematic analysis of 400 randomly selected U.S. hospital websites in June of 2010. Data were collected on the presence and …
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Federal Public Service Loan ForgivenessGot Debt? We know that debt matters when you are considering graduate schools and the types of jobs you take after graduating. The Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) and the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan are two options that will …
Faculty Profile
Jacob VictoryJacob Victory is Associate Clinical Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Director of the Health Law and Strategy Program, a joint Masters of Science degree sponsored by NYU Wagner and NYU Law. Professor Victory …
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NYC 2025NYC 2025 convenes non-partisan experts across a range of areas to hold an ongoing conversation about issues that must be addressed for the city to become a stronger and more equitable city than it was before COVID-19. The first iteration of this …
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Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members’ evaluations of each other and the groupThe present research examined how a group's gender composition influences intragroup evaluations. Group members evaluated fellow group members and the group as a whole following a shared task. As predicted, no performance differences were found as a …
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Group Cohesion without Group Mobilization: The Case of Lesbians, Gays, and BisexualsGroup identities that are chosen, rather than inherited, are often associated with cohesive political attitudes and behaviours. Conventional wisdom holds that this distinctiveness is generated by mobilization through processes such as intra-group contact …
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Long-Term Associations of Homelessness with Children's Well-BeingTo analyze long-term consequences of homelessness, the authors compared 388 formerly homeless children 55 months after shelter entry with 382 housed peers, birth to 17, using mother- and child-reported health, mental health, community involvement, …
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East Asian DecentralizesMore than ever, the future of East Asian countries depends on the capacity and performance of local and provincial governments, according to the World Bank report, East Asia Decentralizes. This decentralization has also unleashed local initiative and …
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New York Times Spotlights NYU Wagner Convocation Ceremony Keynote AddressThe New York Times online spotlight of 2015 graduation speeches around the country, " Cap and Gown ," highlighted NYU Wagner's Convocation speaker Cody Keenan, the chief speechwriter for President Obama. In The Times ' coverage, Cody was joined by such …
Alumni In Action
Samer SalibaHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? Getting my degree in New York allowed me to continue my day job as a professional urban planner, working on projects within the city and beyond. New York really is the ideal place to learn …
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PNP - Management - ChecksheetMPA-PNP: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP I. DEGREE CORE REQUIREMENTS [15 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive the following courses: …
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Sharon CarneyWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to experience life in a city that was very different than the one I knew (Detroit). My driving professional interest is cities -- what makes them work, what causes them to decline, and how they …
Capstone Projects
CIVIL SOCIETY’S POTENTIAL TO DISRUPT ILLEGAL ENVIRONMENTAL TRADEThe Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) seeks to create and promote innovative strategies to fight international criminal networks. GITOC engaged a team to analyze civil society’s role in disrupting the illegal wildlife and …
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The Institute for Urban Family HealthThe Institute for Urban Family Health is a not-for-profit health care organization whose mission is to improve the quality and availability of family practice services in response to the needs of medically underserved populations. The resident was …
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Civic Participation in Fiscal Decentralization: A Comparative Study of Developing Countries in Africa and Latin AmericaThe Capstone team was asked to develop a comparative analysis of civic participation structures of fiscal decentralization in Brazil, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. With a counterpart Capstone team that analyzed financial flows, the team developed …