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Improving information use through public health informatics systems & human resource capacity building
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to the annual workshops, real-time tools are needed to support surveillance at district and national levels and continuous data use in public health sectors. The DHIS dataset is aggregated at the district level, lacking information on location within...
Three essays on economics of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
modestly positive impacts. In Chapter 2, I estimate the effects of nursing articulation agreements between the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) and numerous public community colleges on the likelihood that community college students transfer to the MU...
A quantitative analysis of teacher gender, race, and educational attainment on teacher retention in rural northwest Missouri public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of the study is to analyze disaggregate rural public teacher retention data to determine significant differences in retention by race, gender, and educational attainment. Missouri public schools in Northwest Missouri, who are considered...
Exporting Hollywood excellence : public relations excellence theory and the MPPDA's European public affairs program of the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] To test the theory that the period between the mid-1920s and the 1950s was marked by the "two-way asymmetrical model" of public relations, this thesis searches for the modern...
Evaluation of performance funding systems : results from the event study design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
As part of the national agenda of accountability, state governments established performance funding policy to hold public institutions accountable for their performance. Accountability allows state policymakers to incentivize institutions to address...
Comparison of media portrayals of poverty in low-income versus affluent metropolitan areas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Poverty has become a salient issue for many Americans. The economic recovery from the Great Recession has been uneven, with large portions of the country continuing to live in poverty. The public has a range of views on the subject, shaped...
Three essays on the impact of public policies on the health and educational outcomes of young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, as well as quasiexperimental and descriptive analyses to evaluate how two public polices improve outcomes for young adults. The first essay focuses on effects on young adults' health outcomes, while the second and third chapters focus on impacts...
From saving face to saving lies : prioritizing the public in public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
for an ethical approach to crisis communication that prioritizes protecting the public....
Rural agglomeration : how does the distribution of people across rural America affect entrepreneurship?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
important policy implications for rural businesses, infrastructure (e.g., broadband), and services (e.g., public education and healthcare)....
Slowing the sophomore slide: do second-year on-campus residency requirements predict student success factors?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
relationship between living on campus for two years and select metrics. Living on campus for two years was found to be a statistically significant positive predictor of retention, GPA, graduation, and student involvement. Future research could address...
Parent attachment and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults : prosocial moral reasoning and respect for family as intervening mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
was positively associated with altruistic and negatively associated with public prosocial behaviors. Prosocial moral reasoning and respect for family were positively intercorrelated with each other. Parent attachment was also directly related to emotional...
Internal crisis communication : the effects of negative employee-organization relationships and negative emotions on reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study examines the role that negative employee-organization relationships (NEORs) play in determining crisis outcomes (organization's internal reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior). Moreover, the study aims ...
The role of public information officers in local American government
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Public information officers (PIOs) see themselves as the liaison between the agency they represent and the public. They come from various backgrounds including broadcast and print journalism, for profits and the advertising world while others seek...
Quantitative analysis of impact of response to intervention on 2019 sixth-grade rural public middle school Missouri assessment program performance by free and reduced-price lunch eligibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study focused on the impact of response to intervention on 2019 sixth-grade rural public middle school Missouri Assessment Program performance by free and reduced-price lunch eligibility. Response to intervention was used to decrease learning...
Three essays on crime policy and the Bayesian bootstrap
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
with a sample matched on pre-treatment outcomes. I find no statistical evidence that three strikes laws reduce violent crime rates. I rule out reductions in violent crime rates greater than 1.3 % and reject the hypothesis that three strikes laws reduce...
The demise of guys : the flight of the American male from STEM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
constructed by the researcher is administered to gather quantitative data related to the previously mentioned factors. Pearson's Chi-square analysis further tests for statistical significance among the two groups of males. Additional qualitative data via...
The politics of CO2 emissions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of the dissertation expect to improve existing knowledge by increasing our understanding of how different measures and statistical methods affect research findings. With this view into consideration, the study provides robustness of existing findings...
Anchor team gender make-up and audience evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
is not available, the standard seems to remain: newsroom managers generally hire for a man-woman newscast. However, per this experimental study, audiences do not prefer the man-woman team over the man-man or woman-woman team with any statistical significance...
Corequisite mathematics education at Missouri community colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
In an effort to raise graduation rates, the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development directed public institutions to establish policies and create corequisite support structures to allow some underprepared students to take...
Effects of the fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The dissertation consists in three chapters addressing the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes. In the first chapter, I take advantage of the scarcity of evidence on the effects of public spending on GDP growth in developing countries...