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Writing SupportTHE WAGNER WRITING CENTER All the best intentions and brilliant ideas in the world are for naught if they aren’t communicated clearly. In fact, in an era when think tanks have become content creators, public services use texts and tweets to help their …
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Improving internal workflow process and response rateThe Office of Patient Care Services (PCS) within the Department of Veterans Affairs receives an enormous number of high-priority, deadline-sensitive electronic correspondence from Congress, the White House, the media, and veterans. PCS receives 200-500 …
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Comparison of rehospitalization rates in France and the United StatesObjective: To compare rates of 30-day all-cause rehospitalization in France and the US among patients aged 65 years and older and explain any difference between the countries. Methods: To calculate rehospitalization rates in France, we use an individual …
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Pedestrian Environments, Walking Path Choice, and Transfer Penalties: Understanding Land-Use Impacts on Transit TravelThis paper investigates the impact of pedestrian environments on walking behavior, and the related choice of travel path for transit riders. Activity logs from trip surveys combined with transit-route and land-use information are used to fit …
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When is ATE Enough? Rules of Thumb and Decision Analysis in Evaluating Training ProgramsThis paper explores the relationship between the theory and practice of program evaluation as it relates to training programs. In practice programs are evaluated by mean-variance comparisons of the empirical distributions of the outcome of interest for …
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Between the Market and State: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net?Examines use of informal insurance arrangements in households of low-income countries. Relationship between household consumption and income; Ways in dealing economic hardships; Systems of reciprocal transfers; Role of public policy in reducing economic …
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Is neighbourhood destiny? Exploring the link between neighbourhood mobility and student outcomesThe notion that children from ‘good’ neighbourhoods are destined for success while those from ‘bad’ neighbourhoods are destined for failure has considerable popular appeal. Residential location is strongly linked to school quality, access to educated …
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Downtown Brooklyn Setting Pace for Innovative Urban Development, Report FindsThe Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, NYU Wagner's Rudin Center, and Appleseed Inc. unveiled a new report on Feb 23 at the Wagner school, explaining how Downtown Brooklyn became a major destination for innovative urban development, and offering ways to keep …
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Gasoline Prices, Interest Rates, and the 2008 ElectionForget immigration, global warning, Donald Rumsfeld and abortion rights. The hot issues of today will quickly fade away if the current surge in gasoline prices and home-mortgage rates continues unabated. And all indications are that both the price of gas …
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The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life ChancesSeven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know--challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into …
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Raising Residential Recycling Rates in Stamford, ConnecticutThe Department of Solid Waste and Recycling in the City of Stamford, Connecticut is a municipal agency that manages waste collection and recycling. Despite efforts to increase participation in residential recycling, Stamford reached only a 9% recycling …
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The Effect of Policy Interactions on Maternal Smoking RatesWhile smoking remains a salient public health issue, maternal smoking is also a key reproductive health concern. Women who smoke are at a higher risk of infertility and complications during pregnancy. Despite what is known about the dangers of maternal …
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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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Malcolm AraosMalcolm Araos is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Service at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Associated Faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies. His research examines the governance and politics of climate …
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Electronic Medical Records ImplementationThe New York Hotel Trades Association provides medical services to unionized hotel employees within the City of New York. The medical services, which include internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, OB/GYN, radiology and other diagnostic services are …
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A network framework for dynamic models of urban food, energy and water systems (FEWS)Rae Zimmerman, Quanyan Zhu, Carolyn Dimitri …
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Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable CitiesThis class is about the infrastructure systems that make up the built environment of cities, and that can make cities more or less sustainable and equitable. As humans face concurrent crises of climate change and inequality, most of the earth’s population …Capstone Projects
ADDRESSING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR WOMEN IN PUNJAB, INDIAIn Punjab, current employment rates for women are historically low, hovering at around 14 percent, while overall rates for men are approximately 55 percent. Factors that contribute to this employment gap include restrictive cultural norms, limited and …
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The Campaign for Public ServiceFunded by the Carnegie Corporation and the Smith Richardson Foundations, this project is designed to explore and improve the federal government's capacity to address the critical policy questions of the future. The project includes research on everything …
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Trends in cesarean delivery rates in China, 2008-2018HT Li, S Hellerstein, YB Zhou, JM Liu, J Blustein …
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LOWERING DROPOUT RATES IN BUSINESS TRAINING FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSCrea Comunidades de Emprendedores Sociales, A.C., (Crea) is a nonprofit social enterprise that implements customized programs to empower and strengthen women entrepreneurs from socially and economically marginalized areas in Mexico. Crea enlisted a …
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Estimating the Effect of a School-Based Water Intervention in NYC on Child BMI and ObesityA.E. Schwartz, M. Leardo, S. Aneja, B. Elbel …
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Race and the Inheritance of Low Birth WeightThis paper uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to address the black-white difference in propensities toward low birth weight (LBW). We determine that socioeconomic conditions account for some variation in low birth …
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Sequential Events Contributing to Variations in Cardiac Revascularization RatesNumerous studies have demonstrated the importance of race, payor, and gender in determining the use of cardiac services, including revascularization procedures (bypass surgery and angioplasty). However, there has been less investigation into where and …