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The case against teacher certification
(National Affairs, Inc., 1998)
The system by which the nation trains and licenses its public school teachers recently came under sharp attack from an organization called the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). In its 1996 report, What Matters Most...
Father knew best
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1998)
This story is about MU's new chancellor as of Nov. 14, 1997: Richard Wallace. (Supplied by cataloger)...
Still truckin'
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1998)
Instead of truckin' to Columbia for treatment, infant Beau Hoover's Milan, MO., physicians consulted MU experts long distance by telecommunications hookup in order to treat him. This telecommunication shows how rural medicine is changing. (Supplied...
The Effect of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher's Moral Hazard or the Team's Cost-Benefit Calculation?: A Comment
(Oxford University Press, 1998-10)
Goff, Shughart and Tollison [1997] attribute the American League's higher hit-batsman rate since 1973 to moral hazard: pitchers who no longer bat no longer face retaliation. We argue that retaliation is more efficiently ...