Benchmarking Diversity: A First Look at New York City Foundations and Nonprofits

New York City foundations and nonprofit organizations have racially diverse staffs, according to a new report by Philanthropy New York and the Foundation Center, but this diversity decreases at higher levels of seniority. A substantial number of foundations and nonprofits are tracking information about the racial and ethnic makeup of the grantees and populations that they respectively serve. The study is the first of its kind in New York City and the nation to examine "both sides" of the equation -- with survey data from 95 grantmaking foundations and 540 nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs

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The Impact Of The 340B Drug Pricing Program On Post-Launch Drug Prices

Government mandated drug-pricing policies are an understudied—but potentially significant—factor in the price of drugs. The 340B program is one of the more controversial government-mandated prescription drug discount programs. Proponents argue that the program helps health care systems cover the cost of care they provide for low-income patients. Critics argue that the program unfairly benefits certain health care systems by assuring them lower drug prices, drives consolidation and reduces competition in the health care market, and drives up the cost of drugs. Despite this last claim, there is very little evidence that the 340B program actually impacts post-launch drug prices (i.e., the price of drugs once they are on the market). This project uses regression analysis to explore how growth in the 340B program—specifically, growth in 340B hospitals that have 340B status because they serve a large number of low-income patients—impacts the cost of drugs administered in the outpatient setting (physician-administered drugs). The project’s findings reveal that growth in this subset of 340B hospitals (DSH-340B sites) between 2008 and 2017 is associated with an increase in the price of physician-administered drugs that were either on patent or had not been off-patent for more than four time periods (i.e., 24 months). These findings serve as evidence that should be used to inform policy decisions regarding the future of the 340B program

Under Pressure from the Empirical Data: Does Externalism Rest on a Mistaken Psychological Theory?

The tradition of semantic externalism that follows Kripke (1972) and Putnam (1975) is built on the assumption that the folk have essentialist commitments about natural kinds. Externalists commonly take the body of empirical data concerning psychological essentialism as support for this claim. However, recent empirical findings (Malt, 1994; Kalish, 2002) call the psychological theory of essentialism into question. This thesis examines the relevance of these findings to both essentialism and semantic externalism. I argue that these findings suggest that these theories fail to reflect folk beliefs about natural kinds and folk natural kind term usage. This leads me to propose an alternative thesis-- the Ambiguity Thesis-- that is better able to accommodate the existing body of empirical data

Power Politics in the Xiongnu Empire

This thesis employs an integrated approach of the historical and archaeological evidence relevant to the study of the Xiongnu empire (3rd century BC – 1st century AD) in an attempt to construct new contexts of understanding the political strategies for securing and ensuring power, legitimacy, and authority in the steppes. I have relied upon the full corpus of Chinese records which address the Xiongnu entity, synthesized the entirety of excavated materials in China, South Siberia, and Mongolia which relate to the Xiongnu phenomenon, and incorporated new survey and excavation data from two regions of the Xiongnu empire. Through the course of the dissertation, I utilize a paradigm of imperial strategies, rather than typologies of imperial polities, in order to provide a less restrictive manner of reconstructing the power politics of the steppe empire. A diachronic consideration of the combined textual narratives and archaeological materials exhibits two distinct periods of the Xiongnu polity. This dissertation focuses on the shifts between these two periods and the resulting new traditions that sought to distinguish and elevate restricted ranks of the imperial élite and assert a cosmopolitan culture of steppe empire that together would ensure authority and control both within the empire and toward its neighbors

Early family experiences and the financial behavior of college students: the impact of gender and gambling

The ability of early family experiences to predict college student\u27s financial behavior was explored and potential moderating effects of gambling status and gender were examined. Multiple family factors including child participation, maternal and paternal communication, maternal and paternal influence, and the age at which the child knew about and was involved in financial matters were utilized. Regression models attempting to predict student\u27s financial impulsiveness, financial satisfaction, financial stress, and credit card debt were examined while ANOVA models were utilized to examine potential moderating effects. Results provided a mixed picture of the relationship of early family influences and later financial traits.;The data indicates that males and females continue to be socialized differently. Paternal influence was found to be a significant predictor of impulsive spending, financial satisfaction, and credit card debt of college students. Maternal communication was significant in predicting financial satisfaction and financial stress. Childhood participation is related to impulsive spending and financial satisfaction. The age of financial involvement demonstrated a main effect for financial satisfaction. Financial satisfaction was also related to paternal communication. And finally, credit card debt for males alone was related to the level of maternal influence. General support for a social cognitive theory was found and the mixed findings point to a new model for explaining financial learning