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Improving NYC Schools through Innovative Best PracticesUnder the outdated "industrial model" of education utilized in New York City public schools, many students are ill prepared for the challenges they are faced with when they enter the work force. To partially mitigate these problems, the NYC Department of …
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URPL-GP.2666
Water Sourcing and Climate ChangeIn the coming decades, water will be the central issue in global economic development and health. With one in six people around the world currently lacking access to safe drinking water (1.2 billion people), and more than two out of six lacking adequate …Publication
Infant Mortality in Moscow: the Perils of Progress in Russia’s World CityThis paper examines changes in infant mortality (IM) in Moscow, Russia’s largest and most affluent city. Along with some remarkable improvements in Moscow’s health system over the period between 2000 and 2014, the overall IM rate for Moscow’s residents …
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 …
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David KaplanDavid Kaplan has over 15 years of healthcare experience. His expertise centers around faculty practice management and operations, revenue cycle, and strategic service and quality re-engineering. David has a proven track record of obtaining successful …
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India in the coming ‘climate G2’?China and the United States are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, making them pivotal players in global climate negotiations. Within the coming decade, however, India is set to become the most important counterpart to the United States, as it …
Capstone Projects
A Case Study on Best Practices for Out of School Time Intermediary OrganizationsThe After-School Corporation (TASC) Capstone team conducted case studies of six cities that were representative of the diversity of intermediary organizations currently engaged in systems building across the nation. The following intermediaries were …
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The Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour: Evidence from a panel survey of TanzaniaThis paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labor using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. We also investigate if access to credit and …
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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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Dispelling An Urban Legend: Frequent Emergency Department Users Have Substantial Burden Of DiseaseUrban legend has often characterized frequent emergency department (ED) patients as mentally ill substance users who are a costly drain on the health care system and who contribute to ED overcrowding because of unnecessary visits for conditions that could …
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Navigating Dangerous Streets: The Sources and Consequences of Street EfficacyThe concept of street efficacy, defined as the perceived ability to avoid violent confrontations and to be safe in one's neighborhood, is proposed as a mechanism connecting aspects of adolescents' "imposed" environments to the choices they make in …
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How personalized and socialized power motivation facilitate antisocial and prosocial decision-makingIn two studies, we investigate the effects of individuals' power motivation on decisionmaking. We distinguish between two types of power motivation [McClelland, D. C. (1970). The two faces of power. Journal of International Affairs, 24, 29-47; Winter, D. …
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Health Management Education Partnerships: More Than Technology TransferThis article presents the reflections of three faculty members from New York University based on more than two years of experience in a health management education (HME) partnership with institutions in the Republic of Albania. The most significant point …
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Decentralization, Externalities, and EfficiencyIn the competitive model, externalities lead to inefficiencies, and inefficiencies increase with the size of externalities. However, as argued by Coase, these problems may be mitigated in a decentralized system through voluntary coordination We show how …
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The Welfare State and Infant MortalityThis article seeks to understand the effects of welfare-state spending on infant mortality rates. Infant mortality was chosen for its importance as a social indicator and its putative sensitivity to state action over a short time span. Country …
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Has Falling Crime Driven New York City’s Real Estate Boom?New York City experienced a dramatic decrease in crime over the past decade. This article examines whether this drop has driven the city's post-1994 real estate boom. Using data that include detailed information about properties sold in New York …
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Is there a Nativity Gap? New Evidence on the Academic Performance of Immigrant StudentsPublic schools across the United States are educating an increasing number and diversity of immigrant students. Unfortunately, little is known about their performance relative to native-born students and the extent to which the "nativity gap" might be …
Stories
Creating New Beginnings for Malawians, Alumna Melissa Kushner’s Nonprofit Aims to EmpowerMalawi, a small, southeast African country, is known as the “warm heart” of the continent, nicknamed for the friendly disposition of its people. But the country—nestled between some better-known neighbors, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia—faces real and …
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth?Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model …
Capstone Projects
Adoption and Scaling of Waste-to-Energy Technologies in the Brazilian Agricultural and Livestock SectorsAccelerating Market-Driven Partnerships (AMP), a nonprofit launched by the U.S. Secretary of State's Global Partnership Initiative, and The Carbon War Room, a partnering organization founded by Sir Richard Branson, commissioned a Capstone team to conduct …
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FINANCIAL AND POLICY ANALYSIS ON AVIATION BIOFUELCarbon War Room, a business unit of the nonprofit research and educational foundation Rocky Mountain Institute, works to intervene in markets to accelerate the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the …
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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 …
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Greening InitiativeThe Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the largest municipal housing agency in the nation with over 2,800 employees and an annual operating budget of approximately $480 million. Recently, HPD undertook a Greening Initiative as an …
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A Comparative Analysis of Smart Growth Implementation PracticesSmart Growth is a widely-used term that refers to land use practices that reinforce environmental protection, economic development, transportation options and encourage dense, walkable communities. Many in the field view smart growth as an antidote to the …