The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is home to research and policy centers, institutes, and initiatives that focus on solving urban problems and strengthening public policy and public service nationally and around the world.
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A tradition at Wagner, the Doctoral Research Colloquium speaker series is a forum in which prominent and up and coming researchers present their work on pressing topics related to public policy, urban planning,and management. It offers doctoral students and faculty a chance to hear from their colleagues, while engaging in a dialogue about current research.
All presentations take place on Thursdays from 12:30-2:00 pm. in the Rudin conference room on the 2nd floor of the Puck Building. A light lunch will be served at 12:15pm.January 26 - Jon Gruber, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Gruber's research focuses on the areas of public finance and health economics. He will present a paper titled "Do Higher Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care: Evidence from Hospital Referral Patterns."
February 16 - Avi Ebenstein, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (and Visiting Professor at NYU-Wagner). Prof. Ebenstein's current research examines the health impacts of environmental deterioration and the design of effective environmental policy, with a focus on developing countries. His presentation is titled "China's 'Missing Migrants': Rural to Urban Migration and Challenges in Census Enumeration."
February 23 - Andrew Ryan, Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prof. Ryan’s research focuses on pay-for-performance and public quality reporting in health care, disparities and discrimination in health care, policy analysis, and applied econometrics. He will present a paper titled "Has Public Quality Reporting Reduced Mortality for Medicare Beneficiaries?" coauthored with Brahmajee K. Nallamothu and Justin B. Dimick.
March 1 - Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (and Visiting Professor at NYU-Wagner). Prof. Johnson’s work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances.
March 22 - Martha Feldman, Professor of Social Ecology, Management, Sociology, and the Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management at UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology. Prof. Feldman’s examines organizational routines and her current research explores the role of performance and agency in shaping these fundamental organizational phenomena.
March 29 - Carol Heimer, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Prof. Heimer conducts research on risk and insurance, organization theory, the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine. She is currently writing a book titled The Legal Transformation of Medicine.
April 5 - Peter Henry, Dean of the NYU Stern School of Business, Dean Richard R. West Professor of Business and William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Finance. Prof. Henry's research interests include emerging markets, the role of institutions in economic growth, international capital flows and debt relief.
Apr 12 – Jacob Leos-Urbel, doctoral student at NYU-Wagner, will present a paper titled “What is a Summer Job Worth? The Impact of Summer Youth Employment on Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Lottery”; and Johanna Lacoe, doctoral student at NYU-Wagner, will present a paper titled “Too Scared to Learn? The Academic Consequences of Feeling Unsafe at School”.
April 19 - Dana Burde, Assistant Professor of International Education at the NYU Steinhardt and affiliated faculty at Wagner. Prof. Burde’s research and teaching focus on humanitarianism, education, human rights, and political violence in countries and regions affected by conflict.
April 26 - Jesse Rothstein, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Rothstein’s research focuses on education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of families on their children’s academic and economic outcomes. He will present a paper tentatively titled “Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters”.