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Strategies for Expanding Geographic Reach via Technology… its staff members are some of the nation’s foremost legal experts practicing in this area, specializing in the legal …
Publication
Administrative Decentralization and Climate Change: Concepts, Experience, and ActionInternational and domestic efforts to respond to the severe global challenge of climate change are on the rise and evolving. Despite the importance of action from multiple levels of government, public sector reforms to address climate change and to …
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GENTRIFICATION AND HEALTH: FRAMEWORK AND COMMUNITY TOOLSThe Center for Health Equity (CHE) is a division of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) whose mission is “to strengthen and amplify the DOHMH's work to eliminate health inequities, which are rooted in historical and …
Capstone Projects
Development of a Marketing Strategy Toolkit for Providers to Facilitate Take-up of Microinsurance… also conducted interviews with practitioners and industry experts to validate the created strategies. The final output, …
News
Professor Coslovsky leads research to boost exports of forest-friendly products from the Brazilian Amazon Salo Coslovsky , NYU Wagner Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, is leading a new Brazilian research initiative, Infloresta, to examine how Brazil can increase its share in the global market for forest-friendly products. Right now, …
Capstone Projects
Implementing Performance Measurement Tools at an NYC After-School Performing Arts Program… measurement system. After consulting subject matter experts, surveying stakeholders, and conducting best practice …
Publication
Body Mass Index and Physical Attractiveness: Evidence From a Combination Image-Alteration/List ExperimentThe list experiment is used to detect latent beliefs when researchers suspect a substantial degree of social desirability bias from respondents. This methodology has been used in areas ranging from racial attitudes to political preferences. Meanwhile, …
Capstone Projects
Designing an Action Book for Religious Facilities… Task Force comprising faith leaders and adjacent experts, and enlisted the Capstone team to design and deliver …
Alumni In Action
Sarah StefanskiCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? As an assistant director at the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), I oversee budget and policy research for the Housing, Environment, and Infrastructure team. IBO is a non-mayoral city …
Capstone Projects
ASSESSING THE EMPOWERMENT OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS IN ASIA … the team’s research and interviews with country experts and includes a regional analysis to be distributed …
Publication
Paying in Pieces: A natural experiment on demand for life insurance under different payment schemesRisk is pervasive in low-income economies, but insurance markets tend to be under-developed and demand for existing products is often low and poorly understood. Usually, customers must buy insurance by making a single lump-sum payment . We study a …
Publication
Examining the Internal Validity and Statistical Precision of the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design by Comparison With a Randomized ExperimentAlthough evaluators often use an interrupted time series (ITS) design to test hypotheses about program effects, there are few empirical tests of the design’s validity. We take a randomized experiment on an educational topic and compare its effects to …
Faculty Profile
Sarah GurwitzSarah Gurwitz has over 30 years of experience in the field of Human Resource Management with the federal government. Sarah began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Venezuela for 2 years, while there, she set up a senior volunteer program at …
Capstone Projects
Analysis of Financial Vehicles for Sustainable infrastructure… literature review, interviewed economic and financial experts, and collected additional data. The team identified …
Publication
The Pearls and Pitfalls of Initiating a Neurosurgery Discharge Huddle: One Institution's ExperienceOrganized discharge huddles have been implemented in a number of specialties across medicine to improve communication and minimize medical errors that might ultimately harm patients. Literature has shown that disjointed care can lead to poor utilization …
Capstone Projects
Re-Conceptualizing the Juvenile Justice Continuum… agency staff, elected officials, service providers, and experts in the field. The Capstone team then produced a white …
Capstone Projects
"Understanding Decentralization in Political and Institutional Context: Motives, Opportunities and Constraints "… as to provide a forum for dialogue among decentralization experts on how to broaden and improve the analysis of …
Capstone Projects
Mentoring Immigrant Youth… was conducted and the Capstone team met with academic experts who have conducted research on immigrant youth …
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NYC Initiative for Children With Incarcerated Parents: A Case for Counting and Tracking Children of Promise… Through an extensive literature review, interviews with experts in the field, and interviews with New York City …
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Gentrification Toolkits… a literature review, case study, and interviews with experts and subjects in a selected city. The team created a …
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Strategic Plan to Expand Ferry Service in the New York Region… case studies of ferry systems, interviews with industry experts and government officials, NYCEDC's Comprehensive …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Practices that Increase Ethnic and Racial Diversity of Senior Management… conducted focus groups, and interviewed several industry experts. The team shared its findings in a best practices …
Capstone Projects
IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE… extensive desktop research, interviews with subject matter experts and stakeholders, a two-week field visit in Cambodia, …
Video
Debates of the Century: Should police be held more accountable?… series showcasing thoughtful, informed dialogue from experts on the most vital national policy issues. …