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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Missouri Tax Credits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
Missouri's first tax credit was authorized in 1973 and many more have been adopted in the following years. Some of these programs have expired or have been eliminated from the statutes; however, the majority of the programs ...
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 ...
Term Limits & Tenure in the Missouri General Assembly (2007)
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The following report examines tenure and turnover in the Missouri General Assembly from just before term limits took effect through the election of 2006. The 2002 election was the fi rst since the decennial redistricting, ...
The impact of renewable energy and economic development on environmental quality of ASEAN countries
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2021)
Maintaining the quality of environmental is a global requirement and necessary to achieve high economic growth, especially through the use of bioenergy. This eco-significant requirement has gained the focus of recent studies and regulators...
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...
Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
There is abundant research that focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty in
rural areas, and on the factors that ameliorate rural poverty. While a comprehensive review of this literature is not possible in this ...
Impact of Missouri's E10 Standard on Consumer Fuel Usage, Public Health, & the Environment*
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
On January 1, 2008, the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act (RFSA) became effective; mandating that all gasoline sold in the state contain 10% ethanol. The fuel with 90% gas and 10% ethanol is commonly referred to as ...
MU Alumni Association honors faculty and alumni
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1994)
"In recognition of outstanding service and accomplishments, the MU Alumni Association honored recipients of the 26th annual Faculty-Alumni Awards Oct. 22 at the Donald W. Reynolds Alumni and Visitor Center."--Page 54...
Fringe Benefits: There is More to Compensation than a Teacher's Salary
(Education Next, 2003)
Each year, the two national teacher unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), release their surveys of public school teacher salaries across the nation, and each year they take advantage...
Administrative Rules Procedure 2004
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
their initial publication....
Administrative Rules Procedure
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
their initial publication....
Fiscal Federalism and Tax Effort in the American States
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
In the 25 years following the Second World
War, state governments doubled the amount
of inflation adjusted revenue that they
collected in taxes. That represented a growth
rate more than double that of the federal
government ...