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Money for Nothing? The Impact of Changes in the Pell Grant Program on Institutional Revenues and the Placement of Needy Students
(American Education Finance Association, 2007)
Using new institutional-level data, we assess the impact of changing federal aid levels on institutional-level Pell revenues. Using various policy instruments associated with Pell generosity, we quantify the sensitivity ...
Halal food and beverage trade: do restriction on religion, Halal certification, and OIC membership have any impact?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
This study determined the worth of the Halal food and beverage trade. We imposed the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood after applying the gravity model (PPML). The economic size of trading partners, regional trade agreements, a shared border, and a...
Determined to succeed
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1995)
"MU has made recruitment and retention of African-American students a priority."--Page 18...
Food values, personality traits, and attitudes towards genetically modified food in Norway and the United States
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2023)
countries. GM aversion is associated with believing that GM products are unnatural with possible negative impacts on the environment and animal welfare and unfair to farmers, processors, and retailers. Public information could focus on the potential benefits...
Regulation and the Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing?
(Journal of Law and Economics, 2004-04)
It is generally agreed that boards are endogenously determined institutions that serve both oversight and advisory roles in a firm. While the oversight role of boards has been extensively studied, relatively few studies ...
'All we can and should be'
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1989)
"As last year's chairman of the Board of Curators' resources and planning committee, Jim Sterling, BJ '65, listened quietly as others presented a gloomy forecast of the future of the University of Missouri. The Bolivar, ...
An Anatomy of a Cartel: The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934
(Research in Economic History, 2008)
This paper explores the nature and causes of the cartel compliance crisis that befell the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) one year after its passage in 1933. We employ a simple game-theoretic model of the NIRA's ...
Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys: The Peculiar Incentives in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Consequences for School Staffing
(American Education Finance Association, 2009)
This article examines the pattern of incentives for work versus retirement in six state teacher pension systems. We do this by examining the annual accrual of pension wealth from an additional year of work over a teacher's ...
U.S. adult attitudes about biotechnology and risk aversion to gene editing
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2023)
While attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods have a long study history, there is still much to learn about U.S. adults’ attitudes toward gene edited (GnEd) food. We combine results from two online surveys; one ...
Critical condition : can the health-care shortage be cured?
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1991)
"The quality of MU's health-care graduates is exceptional, but funding limits the University's ability to keep up with the demand."--Table of contents for issue....
Energy consumption and environmental degradation in Iraq : the role of renewables, electricity, fossil fuels, and natural resources
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2023)
The present research explores the impact of various factors, including electrical energy consumption, fossil fuel energy, renewable energy consumption, and natural resource sufficiency, on environmental degradation in Iraq, ...
The use of digital technologies in agricultural cultivation : a case of a developing nation with rice as a staple food
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
rice productivity, further leading to the enhanced socio-economic development of a nation. This study applied a quantitative research methodology using SmartPLS 3.0 to analyze data collected from the farmers at local administrative levels of a provinces...
The governor's race : five leading candidates express their views on higher education
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1992)
"The five leading candidates for Missouri's governor reveal their views on higher education and Mizzou."--Table of contents for issue.
Stretching the education dollar
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1999)
Why does college cost so much? Do you have the information you need to make informed decisions? Have costs got you buffaloed into inaction? Take heart. Here's how savvy consumers are financing their children's college educations.
News value
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
Mizzou's miss America : Debbye Turner steps into the national spotlight.
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1990)
"Debbye Turner, a student in MU's College of Veterinary Medicine, is impressing all who see her with her intelligence, wit and poise."--Table of contents for issue....
The government policy on the organic rice farming groups embracing sustainable agricultural production: evidence in Thailand
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
Implementing an organic farming policy at the national level significantly drives and fosters sustainable agricultural production. However, it also creates crucial problems in promoting and sustaining organic rice farming ...
The role of rural infrastructure, labour and capital investment on the rice production in Malaysia
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
Recently, rice production has gained significant attention due to increasing requirements and rural infrastructure, labour, and capital investment have been considered the significant factors for rice production that need ...
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 ...
Rediscovering the Corps of Discovery
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2002)
Lewis and Clark's expedition muscled up the Missouri River near what would become the site of the University.