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How Normative Debates About Immigration Shape Analyses of the Assimilation Process for Second-Generation Youth: Lesson from Spanish LegaciesIn Spanish Legacies, Portes, Aparicio, and Haller offer the results of their longitudinal study on the assimilation of the children of immigrants in Spanish society. Thanks to their study design, which parallels the earlier Children of Immigrants …
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BUILDING CIRCULAR ECONOMIES IN NYC'S INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS ZONESUnder the direction of the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC), Town+Gown: NYC is a city-wide partnership program that provides resources to support research on infrastructure and the built environment. In order to advance NYC's sustainability …
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Directory of New York City Affordable Housing ProgramsNew York City has a long history of government intervention in residential housing markets, resulting in more than 175 affordable housing programs reflecting a wide range of goals and strategies. The Directory of New York City Affordable Housing Programs …
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Should Capstone Activities Be Subject to the Human Subjects Review Process?Like many schools of public policy and management, New York University's Wagner School offers a capstone course in which teams of MPA students provide consultation to client organizations, This year, as the they began to assign students to teams, some …
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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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Negotiating Accountability: Managerial Lessons from Identity-Based Nonprofit OrganizationsThis article explores the emerging conceptualization of accountability in nonprofit organizations. This definition broadens traditional concerns with finances, internal controls, and regulatory compliance. The authors explore how the top-level managers of …
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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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Booms, busts, and babies' healthIn this paper we study the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception and health outcomes at birth, and we explore whether this relationship is due to the effect of the unemployment rate on fertility decisions or on the …
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Practical propensity score matchingThis paper discusses propensity score matching in the context of Smith and Todd's (Does matching overcome Lalonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators, J. Econom., in (press) reanalysis of Dehejia and Wahba (J. Am. Statist. Assoc. 97 (1999) 1053; …
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Health in Hong Kong: An International PerspectiveHong Kong stands out among wealthy megacities as having some of the best indicators of population health. Infant mortality is 3.0 per 1,000 births in Hong Kong compared to 6.2 in New York City and 4.0 in Paris, while life expectancy at birth is 78.0 years …
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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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"Government by the People"Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a …
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Hidden Talent: Tacit Skill Formation and Labor Market Incorporation of Latino Immigrants in the United StatesThis article examines informal training and skill development pathways of Latino immigrant construction workers in two different urban labor markets: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. We find that institutional differences …
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Posts of Honor: How America's Corporate and Civic Leaders View Presidential AppointmentsFrom its very beginnings as a war-weary republic, the United States has always depended on citizen servants to lead its government. The Founding Fathers believed their young nation would not long survive as a representative democracy without leaders whose …
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The Rules of the Intergovernmental Game in East Asia: Comparing Decentralization Frameworks and ProcessesAlthough political forces have largely driven decentralization in East Asia and most countries face similar reform challenges, their decentralization experiences are far from uniform. Countries have adopted different intergovernmental structures, …
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Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial ManagersFor all entrepreneurs and nonfinancial professionals with budget and/or P&L responsibilities, Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers provides the basics necessary to make a solid contribution to the financial goals and success of their …
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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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NYU Wagner Announces Future Home at 105 East 17th StreetIn a significant milestone for NYU Wagner, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming move to 105 East 17th Street, a dynamic space situated in the heart of Union Square, New York City. This carefully renovated building will serve as the center of NYU …
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Design of a Sustainable Project Management Process and Tracking SystemNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the nation’s most comprehensive and integrated academic healthcare delivery systems. The Division of Nursing Education and Continuing Education is involved in multiple campus-specific and ero ss-campus …
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Designing an Evidence-Based Nursing Peer Review ProcessThe Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is the most recognized orthopedic hospital in the United States and is at the forefront of musculoskeletal medicine. A fundamental component of HSS is the exemplary care its nurses provide—as evidenced by their …
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Campaign to End Forced Disappearances in SyriaFreedom Forward is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that seeks to end US alliances with dictatorships and other non- democratic governments around the world and to organize solidarity activists to challenge the practices of repressive …
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Evaluating Member Engagement of a Nursing Education ProgramNYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing houses the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) program, a nursing education and consultation program designed to improve geriatric care in healthcare organizations. The NICHE program provides resources …
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A Comprehensive Financial Strategy to Ensure Continued Clinic OperationsHeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) is a nonprofit organization that empowers over 6,000 youth, individuals, and families to overcome challenges of family crises, addiction, mental illness, and poverty. The Integrated Health Services division of HSVS …