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Fairness and bias of machine learning approaches for diabetes screening in the Emergency DepartmentIsaac Bohart, [...], Daniel B. Neill*, David Lee* … Fairness and bias of machine learning approaches for diabetes screening in the Emergency …
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Fairness and bias of machine learning in healthcare and medicineIsaac Bohart, Daniel B. Neill, and David Lee … Fairness and bias of machine learning in healthcare and medicine …
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The Feasibility of Developing Affordable Housing on New York City Public Library Sites"The perpetual demand for affordable housing in New York City, coupled with the lack of development sites throughout the five boroughs, have required developers to become creative in their site selection techniques. Consequently, Enterprise Community …
Capstone Projects
Family Engagement ProjectIn the current environment of high-stakes accountability in education, increased achievement in highly stressed schools has become paramount. Research has shown that effective family involvement in education is correlated with students’ academic and …
Capstone Projects
Family Engagement ProjectIn the current environment of high-stakes accountability in education, increased achievement in highly stressed schools has become paramount. Research has shown that effective family involvement in education is correlated with students’ academic and …
Capstone Projects
Revitalizing the East River Waterfront in Lower ManhattanThe East River waterfront in lower Manhattan is the birthplace of modern New York City, and an area where the city’s famous financial industry mixes with major tourist sites and a rapidly growing residential area. Past efforts to redevelop this area …
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Urban Tides: Rediscovering a Living WaterfrontRich in history, diversity, economic activity, cultural institutions, and local support, the Astoria and Long Island City, Queens, waterfront is ripe for rediscovery. From the East River, the preponderance of industry along this waterfront is apparent. At …
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Revitalizing the East River Waterfront in Lower ManhattanThe East River waterfront in lower Manhattan is the birthplace of modern New York City, and an area where the city’s famous financial industry mixes with major tourist sites and a rapidly growing residential area. Past efforts to redevelop this area …
Capstone Projects
Urban Tides: Rediscovering a Living WaterfrontRich in history, diversity, economic activity, cultural institutions, and local support, the Astoria and Long Island City, Queens, waterfront is ripe for rediscovery. From the East River, the preponderance of industry along this waterfront is apparent. At …
Capstone Projects
Building Blocks for GrowthThe White House Project (TWHP) is a national nonprofit organization that uses multiplatform programs to advance women's leadership in all communities and across sectors—up to the U.S. presidency—by filling the leadership pipeline with a diverse, …
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NYU Wagner Prof. Erica Foldy Receives MLK Jr. Faculty AwardNYU Wagner professor Erica Foldy has been selected to receive the New York University Provost’s prestigious 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., presented to outstanding faculty members – nominated by students – who exemplify the spirit of the …
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Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of CarbonClimate change has myriad physical and economic impacts. Even those that can be easily quantified indicate the need for ambitious climate action. Other climate impacts have yet to be quantified. We argue here that uncertainties in climate and weather …
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Incremental charges, costs, and length of stay associated with obesity as a secondary diagnosis among pregnant womenTrasande L, Lee M, Liu Y, Weitzman M, Savitz D. … Incremental charges, costs, and length of stay associated with obesity as a secondary diagnosis among pregnant …
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The Organization of Schooling and Adolescent DevelopmentInvesting in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities takes a theoretically exciting and socially critical view of human development and the power of context to shape positive outcomes. Co-editors Kenneth I. Maton, Cynthia J. Schellenbach, Bonnie J. …
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NYU Wagner Team a Finalist at National Invitational Public Policy Challenge in PhiladelphiaWe are thrilled to announce that the student team representing NYU Wagner at The National Invitational Public Policy Challenge in Philadelphia was selected as a Finalist on March 19, winning $5,000 to be put toward implementing its project, called Kudos. …
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Measuring School Finance Equity using School Finance StatisticsThis entry briefly outlines the origin of school finance statistics and describes the Berne-Stiefel framework for identifying the values of school finance equity. It then introduces various measures of horizontal, vertical, and taxpayer equity and …
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GLOBSEC Young Leaders' Forum Taps NYU Wagner Global EMPA Student Jayson BrowderCongratulations, Jayson Browder, a student in NYU Wagner’s Global EMPA program! He has been selected to participate in the GLOBSEC Young Leaders' Forum 2015 – one of 35 newly selected participants from a variety of backgrounds and from 29 countries. Over …
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Website Ranks NYU Wagner as 3rd Most Innovative Public Service School in NationNYU Wagner has been ranked 3 rd in the 2015 Best Value Schools ranking of the 50 most innovative public service schools in the U.S. According to the website’s survey, the rankings were based on the following school attributes: U.S. News ranking: maximum …
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Prescriptivism, Risk Aversion, and Intertemporal Substitution in Climate EconomicsThe question of how to discount the distant future has long been at the core of climate economics. It has also divided economists. Some argue for prescriptivist approaches to discounting, often calling for social discount rates of as low as 1% per year. …
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Leadership (Re)constructed: How Lens MattersThis paper develops a view of leadership as a social construct, as something that is created through dialogue among groups of people in a particular context. Different contexts allow us to see how leadership emerges in action. We further develop the idea …
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Eric KlinenbergEric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He has affiliated appointments at NYU Wagner, the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and …
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Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care actThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by U.S. President Obama in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. The ACA expanded health insurance by expanding the Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called …
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Bodies That Don't Matter: Death and Dereliction in ChicagoThrough a case study of the scientific, political and journalistic treatment of dead bodies in the 1995 Chicago heat wave, this article questions what kinds of truths are written on or contained within the body and what happens to the study of society …