NYU Wagner

Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives

Wagner is home to special research and policy centers, institutes, and initiatives that focus on solving urban problems and strengthening public policy and public service nationally and internationally.

These centers and institutes create an environment of dynamic thinking, purposeful questioning, and thoughtful reasoning on today's most complex public service issues. With a reputation for quality research and evaluation, research centers keep faculty and students current, make tangible contributions to critical public service areas, and attract funding and talent that greatly enhance the school's effectiveness.

Project Spotlights

Financial Access Initiative

A new paper by FAI Director Jonathan Morduch explores whether poor households lack access to finance because they are not creditworthy, or whether they are just not interested in borrowing.

Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

The Benefits of Business Improvement Districts: Evidence from New York City is the first empirical analysis on the effects that NYC's Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have on property values, and can be used to better understand the role these organizations play in local economic development.

Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) and NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response

The Public Infrastructure Support for Protective Emergency Services project identifies relationships between traditional infrastructure and emergency services, examining vulnerabilities created at interconnection points among them during emergencies.

Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management

The Rudin Center has published its study Pedestrian and Bicyclist Standards and Innovations in Large Central Cities, which reviews the common challenges and opportunities that large central cities share in promoting bicycling and walking.

 

Women of Color Policy Network (WOCPN)

WOCPN's study Gender, Race, Class and Welfare Reform contends that race and gender coalesce through historic and contemporary government, policy and market failures to deny benefits and jobs to women of color while blaming them for their condition.