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Financial Access Initiative (FAI) Launches Research on Small Firms in the United States The Financial Access Initiative (FAI), housed at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, together with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth through the Mastercard Strive small business program, announced the launch of the Small Firm …
Capstone Projects
RETHINKING COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT AN EQUITABLE RECOVERY OF SMALL BUSINESSESThe New York City Department of Small Business Services’ Neighborhood Development Division (NDD) pursues commercial revitalization projects across the city to support small businesses and commercial corridors and enhance community resilience. Prior to the …
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Alumni Voices: Razakh Abukar Abdirahman (MPA 2019)By Mikeala Sparks (MUP, International Development) Razakh was born in Mogadishu, Somalia (a region still under debate as to whether it is Somali or Ethiopian territory) and moved to the US during a refugee resettlement program in Seattle, WA. There, he …
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URPL-GP.2680
Urban DesignThis course, “Urban Design— Visualization Tools & Neighborhood Challenges,” will introduce students to visualization techniques in a series of linked exercises during the first half of the semester; in the second half of the semester, students will …Publication
Corner store purchases in a low-income urban community in NYC. We assessed purchases made, motivations for shopping, and frequency of shopping at four New York City corner stores (bodegas). Surveys and purchase inventories (n = 779) were collected from consumers at four bodegas in Bronx, NY. We use Chi square tests …
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The National Children's Study and the children of WisconsinProspective, multi-year epidemiologic studies such as the Framingham Heart Study and the Nurses' Health Study have proven highly effective in identifying risk factors for chronic illness and in guiding disease prevention. Now, in order to identify …
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The Role of the Real City in Cyberspace: Understanding Regional Variations in Internet Accessibility and UtilizationSince 1993, when the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, was released into the public domain, the Internet has evolved from an obscure academic and military research network into an international agglomeration of public and private, local and global …
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The Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan: The Role of the CityThe attack on the World Trade Center reinforced a process of change in lower Manhattan that had been under way for at least the past fifty years. The public and private responses to the destruction wrought on September 11 have provided the funds, …
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Validation of the Revised CRISYS, a Contemporary Measure of Life StressorsThe objectives of this study were to establish the validity of the Crisis in Family Systems-Revised, a recently developed measure of contemporary life stressors, using the same validation technique as in the original validation and to provide further …
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Cross-national measurement of school learning environments: Creating indicators for evaluating UNICEF’s Child Friendly Schools InitiativeThe present study examines the psychometric properties of a student-reported measure of school quality, the CFS Conditions for Learning Survey, to examine its utility as a cross-national comparative measure to evaluate UNICEF's Child Friendly Schools …
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Effectiveness of STD/HIV behavior change intervention on women's use of the female condomThis study assessed the effectiveness of a sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV behavior change intervention in increasing women's use of the female condom. Methods. A total of 604 women at high risk for STDs and HIV in New York City, Baltimore, Md, and …
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From Power to ActionIn the present research, the authors examined the effect of a message recipient's power on attitude change and introduced a new mechanism by which power can affect social judgment. In line with prior research that suggested a link between power and …
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Changing Children's Trajectories of Development: Two-Year Evidence for the Effectiveness of a School-Based Approach to Violence PreventionAwareness of youth violence has increased in recent years, resulting in more interest in programs that can prevent violent and aggressive behavior. Although overall rates of violence among young people have declined since the mid-1990s, rates of some …
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Promoting Early Childhood Development through Comprehensive Community InitiativesRecent advances in developmental psychology, social services, and social policy have converged to highlight 3 issues: (a) the importance of early development; (b) the importance of the contexts, or "ecology," of early development, especially with respect …
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The Role of Strategic Attention Deployment in Development of Self-Regulation: Predicting Preschoolers' Delay of Gratification from Mother-Toddler Interactions.Toddlers' use of effective attention deployment strategies to cope with separation from the mother and with maternal behavior predicted the use of effective delay-of-gratification strategies at age 5, even though the contexts, measures, and manifest …
Capstone Projects
Enhancing Youth Voter Engagement Through a Digital PlatformIn the US, people between the ages of 18-29 consistently vote at lower rates than any other demographic. In response, a Capstone team created Motivote, a digital platform strategically designed to encourage voting accountability among young Americans. The …
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Estimated Mortality Increases During the COVID-19 Pandemic By Socioeconomic Status, Race, and EthnicityThis article estimates changes in all-cause mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic by socioeconomic characteristics and occupation for nonelderly adults in the US, using large-scale, national survey data linked to administrative mortality records. …
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Support vector subset scan for spatial pattern detectionDiscovery of localized and irregularly shaped anomalous patterns in spatial data provides useful context for operational decisions across many policy domains. The support vector subset scan (SVSS) integrates the penalized fast subset scan with a …
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Test–retest reliability of a self-administered Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in primary care patientsThe time required to conduct drug and alcohol screening has been a major barrier to its implementation in mainstream healthcare settings. Because patient self-administered tools are potentially more efficient, we translated the Alcohol, Smoking and …
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Democracy ScholarsAbout Democracy Scholars A Three Week Residential Summer Seminar Program Support for Senior Year College Application Process A Nine Month Civic Engagement Leadership Project 1) Democracy Scholars is an intensive 3-week summer seminar in political …
Capstone Projects
Determine the Long-Term Financial Sustainability of the Emergency Department Care Management ProgramNew York City’s integrated health care system, New York City Health and Hospitals (H+H) Corporation, serves approximately 1.4 million New Yorkers annually, 479,000 of whom are uninsured. In September 2014, H+H was awarded a three-year $17.9 million grant …
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Mitigating Corruption Risks in the Land Sector with a Focus on Gender Related IssuesAn international nongovernmental organization, Transparency International fights corruption and abuses of power. In Africa, corruption is one of the largest risks to citizens’ land and property rights. Having identified these issues as a priority, …
Alumni In Action
Julie Shahroudi How would you describe your experience as an NYU Wagner student? I felt energized at all the new ideas and policy I was learning. While I was involved somewhat in extra curricular Wagner activities, I primarily sought to apply the things I learned. …
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Developing a Sarbanes Oxley-like Approach to Enterprise Risk Management in Healthcare OrganizationsVisiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), a $900 million certified home healthcare agency, serves more than 100,000 patients annually in New York City and is the largest nonprofit agency of its kind in the nation. Currently, VNSNY is focusing on …