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Missouri Recycling Economic Information Study
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
, including vehicle batteries and tires, but recycling activities also produce economic benefits over and above environmental benefits. This study is designed to explore these economic benefits of recycling in the state of Missouri.
The study examined four...
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...
Evaluation of Major State Taxes in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
. The general revenue fund is the source from which appropriations are made for education, public assistance including Medicaid, mental
health services, and general governmental functions. The motor fuel tax is the fourth tax examined here....
Where Do Overweight Children Live?
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy., 2005)
Overweight status and obesity have increased dramatically among both adults and children in the past two decades (CDC 2003). While these increases have been well-documented, much less is known about how these outcomes vary ...
Missouri Historic Preservation Tax Credit
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
extraordinary session. Shortly after the state program was approved by the legislature, Carolyn Toft, the Executive Director of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, compared the program to publicly financed sports stadiums and said, “this is precisely...
Safety Implications of Changing to a Primary Enforcement Seat Belt Law
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2001)
with California, nine states upgraded their seat belt enforcement provisions from secondary to primary. According to a recent survey of nearly 2000 adults conducted by the Insurance Research Council, there is considerable public support for primary and secondary...
The Status of Underage Drinking and Laws in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Underage drinking presents a serious public health problem in the United States with 10.7
million youth ages 12-20 reporting consumption of alcohol. Twenty-eight percent of youth ages 12-20 report using alcohol within the past 30 days. Additionally...
The Food Safety Net After Welfare Reform: Use of Private and Public Food Assistance in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2003)
This study uses a unique database of clients of private food providers in the Kansas City metropolitan area to document the use of private food assistance from January 1998 to May 2001. We show that, while the use of private ...
Governor's Appointment Power for Missouri Executive Departments
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Missouri state government is not organized in the structured, top down mold so familiar in the corporate world. In fact, state government contains several different organizational structures with varying degrees of ...
Roll-out of the "Mizzou Advantage"
(University of Missouri, 2009)
Approximately three years ago, MU began an exercise to define "strategic advantages" that could place the University within higher education in an extremely strong, competitive position. The idea was to identify MU's competitive advantages...
(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 ...
Teacher Retirement Benefits
(Education Next, 2009)
's public schools spent $187 billion in salaries and $59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel. Total benefits added about 32 percent to salaries, up from 25 percent in 1999-2000. The increase reflects the well-known rise in health insurance costs...
Missouri Micropolitan Areas: A Demographic Profile
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
This brief examines how Missouri's recently
defined micropolitan counties compare to traditional metropolitan and rural areas of the state. This comparison is done by using several demographic categories including: population ...
Enhancing Missouri Traffic Safety with a Primary Enforcement Seat Belt Law
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
, and the fatality rate per 100,000 persons was 21.6 in Missouri versus 14.6 for the national average and 7.18 in the safest state. Further, according to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, the economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in Missouri was $4...
Trends in Food Pantry Use Since Welfare Reform: Evidence from the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2003)
This study uses a unique database to examine the trend in the use of food pantries in the Kansas City metropolitan area from 1997 to 2000. We find a slight increase in the use of food pantry services over this period, less ...
Material Hardship Across Place
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
In this brief, we examine trends in material hardship for families, focusing
specifically on geographic variations. Using data from the Census Bureau Public Use
Microdata Samples (PUMS), we assess how the levels of material hardship among families...
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 ...
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 ...
Let the Market Decide
(Education Next, 2001)
By thoroughly standardizing teacher pay, the single salary schedule suffers from a major flaw: It deprives the managers of public schools of the authority to adjust an individual teacher's pay to reflect both his performance and market realities...
Term Limits & Tenure in the Missouri General Assembly 2005
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
The following report examines tenure and turnover in the Missouri General Assembly following the critical 2002 general election and the 2004 election. The 2002 election was the first since the decennial redistricting and ...