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Enhancing Performance Management ProcessesSt. Christopher’s is a residential treatment center for at-risk and devel-opmentally disabled youth. St. Christopher’s enlisted a Capstone team to evaluate its current employee performance management program relative to industry best practices, recommend …
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Developing a Wage Negotiation Platform to Narrow the Gender and Race Wage GapWomen earn 54 to 87 cents for every dollar earned by their Caucasian male counterparts. Most of this wage gap is "explained" by characteristics such as experience, education, and occupation. However, over 20 percent of the wage gap is "unexplained" and …
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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 …
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Medication Dispensing SystemNew York-Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital is a university hospital in New York City. NYP’s nursing leadership and key stakeholders recognize the importance of providing efficient, safe, and cost effective methods of delivering medications from the point of …
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Measuring Leadership Skill DevelopmentCreated in November 2013 to enhance and coordinate leadership development and national scholarship opportunities across New York University (NYU), the NYU Leadership Initiative works with students, faculty, and administrators on several academic programs. …
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Best Practices for the Trial Discharge ProcessThe Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) is a New York City government agency that ensures children’s safety and well-being, as well as family stability. Among other responsibilities, it ensures child welfare by overseeing services that support …
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Family Planning 2020The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) aims to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted and every childbirth is safe in order to expand the possibilities for women and girls to lead healthy and productive lives. The UNFPA launched Family …
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Searching for Strategies to Improve the Value of Healthcare in Accountable Care OrganizationsAccountable Care Organizations (ACOs) were established by the Affordable Care Act as a way to improve the value of healthcare—defined as the ratio of healthcare quality to cost—in the Medicare population. ACOs are incentivized to achieve high-value care …
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Pathways After Default: What Happens to Distressed Mortgage Borrowers and Their HomesWe use a detailed dataset of seriously delinquent mortgages to examine the dynamic process of mortgage default—from initial delinquency and default to final resolution of the loan and disposition of the property. We estimate a two-stage competing risk …
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A Port Authority That WorksThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been a vital force in the physical and economic growth of the New York-New Jersey region. During the past few years, however, public attention has focused on the Port Authority’s spending, management, …
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Designing and Implementing a Program Measurement SystemNonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) is a nonprofit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, focused on building management capacity and developing solutions for other nonprofit organizations. A small, but robust, organization in a period of growth, NEW …
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Universal Health Insurance in France: How Sustainable? Essays on the French Health Care SystemIn France, American nostrums of unleashing market forces under the banner of "consumer-directed health care," and selective contracting by private health insurers, have gained little ground. That should not, however, lead one to conclude that the French …
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Adoption of evidence-based clinical innovations: The case of buprenorphine use by opioid treatment programs.This article examines changes from 2005 to 2011 in the use of an evidence-based clinical innovation, buprenorphine use, among a nationally representative sample of opioid treatment programs and identifies characteristics associated with its adoption. We …
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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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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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School Finance Court Cases and Disparate Racial Impact: The Contribution of Statistical Analysis in New YorkAlthough analyses of state school finance systems rarely focus on the distribution of funds to students of different races, the advent of racial discrimination as an issue in school finance court cases may change that situation. In this article, we …
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Power, Culture, and Action: Considerations in the Expression and Enactment of Power in East Asian and Western SocietiesWe present a model of how culture affects both the conceptualizations and behavioral consequences of power, focusing in particular on how culture moderates the previously demonstrated positive relationship between power and assertive action. Western …
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School Budgeting and School Performance: The Impact of New York City’s Performance Driven Budgeting InitiativePerformance Driven Budgeting (PDB) is a school-based budgeting initiative that was instituted in a select group of New York City schools beginning in the 1997-1998 school year. This paper analyzes the impact of the initiative on student test scores in the …
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Developing Affordable Housing with EB-5The Capstone team worked with McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS), a leading national developer of low- and mixed-income housing, to ascertain the viability of securing funding from the EB-5 immigrant investor program to urban residential development. The EB-5 …
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Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility in the PhilippinesThe Philippines has a history of philanthropic giving, particularly from large privately owned Filipino organizations. Today, many organizations have evolved from simple philanthropy to embedding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into their business …
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Assessment of Freight Consolidation Methodologies in Midtown ManhattanNew York City Department of Transportation’s (NYCDOT) Office of Freight Mobility works to improve the efficiency and sustainability of freight movement throughout the City. A Capstone team was engaged to identify how consolidation centers can benefit the …
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Evaluating and Planning for ExpansionCatholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers (CBSBB) is a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring services to New York City’s children regardless of religious affiliation. The unique program focuses on strengthening each child’s entire family by providing …
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The evolution of infant mortality and neighbourhood inequalities in four world cities: 1988–2016Objectives: To determine the level of neighbourhood ine-qualities in infant mortality (IM) rates in the urban core of four world cities and to examine the association betweenneighbourhood-level income and IM. We compare our findings with those published …
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Evaluation of Costs and Benefits of Service Expansion and its Impact on Sharsherets Financial Infrastructure, Marketing, and Program DevelopmentSharsheret is a national nonprofit organization of Jewish breast cancer survivors that pairs young women facing breast cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s with volunteers who can share their experiences and provide a strong support network. Sharsheret …