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T.W. Schultz and the Human-Capital Approach to Entrepreneurship
(Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 2006)
T.W. Schultz's theory of entrepreneurship is among his least known, but most interesting, contributions. While entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as important for economic organization and development, it is not a major component...
(Mis-) Measuring the Relative Pay of Public School Teachers
(Education Finance and Policy, 2006)
Statistics on the relative pay of public school teachers are routinely cited by plaintiffs in school finance (“adequacy”) lawsuits. However, comparisons of pay and
benefits for public school teachers to those of professional ...
Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations
(Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-08)
This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis of ...
Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations
(Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-08)
This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis ...
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
(2006-02)
theorists give widely divergent answers to these questions. This paper reviews the major approaches to teaching entrepreneurship, primarily at the undergraduate level, and relates them to economic theories of entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, we find little...
K-12 Public School Finance in Missouri: An Overview
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006)
The level and distribution of spending for public K-12 education remains a contentious matter of policy in many states because of increasing expectations for school performance and widespread school finance litigation. In this paper, the authors...
Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...
Putting the passion back into politics
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Meet governors Timothy Kaine and Ted Kulongoski, both of whom are Mizzou alumni and fierce believers in the democratic process.
Overview of State Government
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
General overview of the organization of Missouri state government prepared by David C. Valentine for the Missouri Legislative Academy.
Feels like home
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
In this special section, rediscover Columbia - aka Collegetown USA. Remember how it once was, check out Homecoming details, and get the latest on Tiger football.
Keep Your Hands Off These Columns
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
The MU Alumni Association celebrates its 150th anniversary....
Relatedness and Acquirer Performance
(Elsevier, 2006)
While the strategic management literature suggests that related diversification is superior to unrelated diversification, there is little evidence that acquirers benefit from pursuing related targets. We argue that the ...
Scholarly productivity of U.S. LIS faculty
(Library & Information Science Research, 2006)
One aspect of faculty effectiveness can be measured through research productivity, and publication and citation rates can serve as an indicator of that productivity. This study, the fourth in a series to examine LIS faculty and program productivity...
HOPE for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit-Based and Need-Based Aid
(Southern Economic Journal, 2006)
Prior empirical evidence finds that general enrollment effects of merit-aid programs such as the Georgia Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship are large and significant, while the effects of need-based ...
Relations between librarians and romance readers: A Missouri survey.
(Public Libaries, 2006)
that romance readers are less educated than other women and that romance novels portray women as passive recipients of men's actions. Do public librarians subscribe to these attitudes? In order to find out, we surveyed public librarians in the State of Missouri...
Stem cell 101
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Learn the basics of this complex and controversial science. There might be a quiz.
Doors to Discovery
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Some of Mizzou's researchers tackle topics in the lab, in the library, in the field - just about anywhere. And they're just freshmen.
Women and Feminism in Higher Education Scholarship: An Analysis of Three Core Journals
(The Journal of Higher Education, 2006)
Today, more women than ever before are active
participants in higher education. For example, more than 50% of all undergraduate students are women and the numbers of women graduate,
professional, and doctoral-degree ...
Education for library service to youth in five countries
(Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 2006)
Youth services instructors from five countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were surveyed as to the content of youth-oriented courses they had taught between 2000 and 2003. A ...
An exploratory survey of reference source instruction in LIS courses
(Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2006)
We surveyed 40 reference instructors at 28 North American ALA-accredited programs of library and information studies about instructional methods they used in teaching about reference sources in print and electronic formats. ...