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Mobile phones and market participation among smallholder farmers in the Bolivian altiplano
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Farm households in the developing world who choose to be self-sufficient, instead of producing for the market, lack the money necessary for purchasing what cannot be produced within the home. It has been noted that households ...
Estimation of spatial autoregressive models with dyadic observations and limited dependent variables
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Spatial correlation, like temporal correlation, often leads to inconsistent estimates if not properly handled. This dissertation addresses spatial correlation in flow data that are recorded as binary or censored values. ...
Continuing inequity : the conveyance of white supremacy in the education policy speeches of President Barack Obama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With his promotion of school choice, quantifiable teacher quality, academic excellence, and the promotion of education as an economic imperative, President Obama maintains the neoliberal hegemony...
Income inequality within and between villages in a rural region of China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The economic reforms during the past eighteen years in China have increased income inequality. This study investigates the impact of policy changes on income inequality both...
The impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study uses panel data to test the impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage. There are observations from 2,986 counties in the contiguous United States from 1990-2005. Previous studies have reported mixed findings ...
From communist to capitalist industrial policy : policy-making during late socialism, transition and EU capitalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, the countries from the former communist bloc embarked on a journey to market capitalism and democracy. Studying Bulgarian industrial policy over a period of 30 years, I ...
Scandinavians and settlement in the eastern Irish sea region during the Viking age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
regions of York and Dublin, but it is nonetheless important, both as a transit point between them and as an economic producer in its own right. In addition to a considerable analysis of artifacts, the study incorporates a new element, namely the smelting...
Effectiveness of participatory approaches in sustainable rural development: analyzing case studies in Uzbekistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Access to quality water is a constraint and a source of waterborne diseases among the rural population of Uzbekistan. To address the need for quality water the government cooperates with many international financial and ...
History as a predicament vs. history as a venue : a comparative study of Robert Coover's The public burning and 'Abdul Khaaliq al-Rikaabi's Saabi' Ayaam al-Khalq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
that there is a conspiracy against the American way of life, pre-dates the Bush administration's 2003 invasion. Its roots are in the Cold War, which is at the heart of Coover's concerns in The public burning and, in a way, foregrounds the U.S. future imperialism...
Understanding rural poverty clusters : the intersection of agriculture, economic structure and locality under postindustrialism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Analysis seeks to understand rural poverty within the context of agricultural and postindustrial economic structure. Detailed socioeconomic data are analyzed for 4,610 non-metropolitan census tracts in the north central United States. Statistical...
Democratization and exchange rates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
and testing the relationship between these two increasingly important phenomena. One important characteristic of young democracies upon which the dissertation's substantive empirical analyses are predicated is the strong public demand for monetary and fiscal...
Examining media coverage of the subprime mouurtgage [sic] phenomenon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, some scholars contend a more inherent (and potentially more insidious) prejudice is at play; they propose that the media show favoritism toward the American corporate or capitalist class in coverage of economic news. Coverage of the recent subprime...
A qualitative exploration of Latino immigrant integration in the rural Midwest : long-term resident and immigrant perspectives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Data from the 2010 Census indicate that between 2000-2010, the most significant Latino population growth occurred in the South (57% increase) and Midwest ...
Macroeconomic trade-offs in small open economies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper addresses the issue of output gap, inflation and exchange rate trade-offs in small open economies. The weights imposed on output gap, ...
A multidisciplinary study on juvenile recidivism and multilevel impacts : risk factors, neighborhood features, and juvenile justice intervention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study incorporates the economic theories of crime, human capital investment, extended theory of subjective expected utility, as well as developmental criminological theories in a life-course perspective to develop a conceptual model to examine...
"I was sick and you visited me" : the hospital of Saint John in Brussels and its patrons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
To understand medieval urban, societal, and economic changes, one only has to look to hospitals, which were the recipients of donations from medieval burgenses, refuges for the sick and poor, and places where local churchmen and nobles sought...
Spectatorship in the crowd in American literature, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
and evolution of cities and towns; by using the familiar yet complex concept of spectatorship, I can make literature of the crowd more accessible to my students and help them better comprehend the economic and racial issues at the turn of the century in order...
When welfare states retrench : the relationship between median voter prferences, government debt and welfare state outcomes in established democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Welfare state spending cuts constitute one of the most economically efficient ways to achieve fiscal consolidation, but some policymakers prefer other methods of fiscal consolidation when government debt levels are high. In this paper I examine...
The metics and their social position : foreign residents in Athens during the Classical period
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
position, often naming metics as "anti-citizens" with little to no rights or privileges outside of the economic sphere. This thesis challenges the longstanding belief that metics held a secondary position in Athenian society, and argues instead...
The federalist frontier : early American political development in the old northwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
trade factories, and on economic policies, this dissertation argues that the United States government left indelible marks throughout the civil society and politics of the region. Federalists also survived in Ohio much longer than it did elsewhere (as...