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Letty Marcus TanchumLetty Marcus Tanchum is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has practiced law in the areas of entertainment, broadcasting, and charitable foundations. She served as Vice President and …
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MPA-PNP CurriculumSpecialization Focus Areas Tools and Skills Policies and Issues View courses in Advocacy specialization focus areas … Specialization Focus Areas Public Economics and Finance Financial Management View courses in Finance specialization focus areas … …
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The Next Coming Crisis of Capitalism: A Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas PikettySewin Chan … The Next Coming Crisis of Capitalism: A Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty …
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New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Meet our Faculty … New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service …
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A Modest Proposal for Improving New York State's Educational OutcomesBerne, R. & Fruchter, N. … A Modest Proposal for Improving New York State's Educational Outcomes …
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Discrepancies Between Ideal Characteristics of a Property Tax System and Current Practice in New YorkBerne, R. & Netzer, D. … Discrepancies Between Ideal Characteristics of a Property Tax System and Current Practice in New York …
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Student-Level School Resource MeasuresBerne, R. & Stiefel, L. … Student-Level School Resource Measures …
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Social Science Research and School Finance PolicyInvestigates the impact of social science research on school finance policy in the U.S. Formulation of social science research to public policy; Perspectives in evaluating the policy impact of social science research; Strengths of the perspectives. … …
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Cutback Budgeting: The Long-Term ConsequencesAnalyzes whether short-term cutbacks made during a fiscal crisis become permanent once fiscal conditions improve. Economic and fiscal history of New York City from the 1970s through the 1980s; Framework for studying the long-term effects of budgetary …
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Finance & Accounting for Nonfinancial ManagersFinkler, Steven A. … Finance & Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers …
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Residential Mobility and MortgagesMortgage applications are a detailed and accurate source of household information that is verified by underwriters, making it a more accurate data source than self-reported survey answers. This paper discusses how mortgage data can be applied to areas of …
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School Site Based Financing in Large U.S. CitiesBerne, R. & Stiefel, L. … School Site Based Financing in Large U.S. Cities …
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Using Mixture Models to Detect Sex Bias in Health Outcomes in BangladeshMany interesting economic hypotheses entail differences in behaviors of groups within a population, but analyses of pooled samples shed only partial light on underlying segmentations. Finite mixture models are considered as an alternative to methods based …
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of UncertaintyThe ideal of the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach, even for many families who are trying to do everything right. To find out why, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider followed 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigated a year of …
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A Comparison of Ground-Level Air Quality Data with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Monitoring Stations Data in South Bronx, New YorkThe South Bronx is a low-income, minority community in New York City. It has one of the highest asthma rates in the country, which community residents feel is related to poor air quality. Community residents also feel that the air quality data provided by …
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NYU Wagner Alumni Launch New Public Policy Wiki – PolicyAtlasIn the US alone, there are 90,056 distinct governmental entities. But nowhere on the Internet can a policy maker find information on how a policy solution has worked for jurisdictions beyond his or her own. Enter Kevin Hansen , Matthew Lisiecki , and Neil …
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Recapturing the West ShoreThe Staten Island Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC) is a nonprofit organization focused on bringing public and private investment to Staten Island to enhance the local economy. Staten Island’s West Shore has long been overlooked by the region’s …
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Red Hook EcoDistrict: The Next Wave of Sustainable Urban DevelopmentEnterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that has been a passionate and forthright voice, locally and nationally, in the advocacy of issues important to the affordable housing community. ECP is also a national leader in bringing the …
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How Microfinance Really WorksAbout half of the world’s adults lack bank accounts. Most of these “unbanked” are deemed too expensive to serve, or not worth the hassle created by banking regulations. But what may be good business from a banker’s perspective isn’t necessarily what’s …
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Emergency Department Use in New York City: A Substitute for Primary Care?For the uninsured and many low-income people, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are a crucial entryway to the health care system. New York City's uninsured-27 percent of the nonelderly population in 1998, up from 20 percent in 1990-rely heavily on the …
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The utility of social capital in studies on health determinantsSocial capital has become a popular subject in the literature on determinants of health. The concept of social capital has been used in the sociological, political science, and economic development literatures, as well as in the health inequalities …
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Domestic Policy MakingThis article asks how changes in the presidential policymaking process have affected domestic policy in general and the agenda-setting process in particular. The past forty years have witnessed two roughly parallel, but possibly unrelated trends. First, …
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Carbon pricing & innovation in a world of political constraintsOrganized by Jesse Jenkins, Leah Stokes, and Gernot Wagner. Thanks to Hewlett and Sloan Foundations as well as the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Niskanen Center for generous support. (Subsequent workshop, held in November 2020, on the " …
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Recent Alumni Make Huffpost 40-Under-40 Honor Roll in International DevelopmentTwo stellar recent graduates of NYU Wagner have been recognized by the Huffington Post’s annual 40-under-40 list of "Latinos to watch for in the realm of foreign policy and international affairs who are on their way towards opening doors for the next …