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School Breakfast Participation
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
Students who do not eat breakfast are more likely to score lower on standardized tests, experience more disciplinary problems, have higher absentee rates, have more tardy days, receive lower math grades, and score lower ...
Public Confidence in Government: Trust and Responsiveness
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
To examine public confidence in government, researchers at the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri have recently completed a national survey of 1,000 adults on these issues. The survey ...
Voice-only flash fiction winners
(The Missouri Review, 2008-02)
This podcast features the winners in the voice-only flash fiction category. Josh McDonald earns first place in the flash fiction, voice-only category with his submission, "Lost." It's a comic, surreal story of a madman on ...
A death in the family / Randolph Jordan ; A house of women / Angela Cervantes
(The Missouri Review, 2008-03)
"This episode of our podcast features the remaining runner-up entries in the Voice-only literature: creative nonfiction category. The second runner-up was Randolph Jordan, with his entry 'A death in the family,' and the ...
TMR Podcast: audio winners series : voice-only poetry : Todd Boss
(The Missouri Review, 2008-03)
"In this installment of The Missouri Review podcast, we feature the first place and first runner-up entries to the Voice-Only Literature (Poetry) category of our 2007 Audio Competition. Both of these awards go to poems by ...
Rational Participation Revolutionizes Auction Theory
(Department of Economics, 2005)
Potential bidders respond to a seller's choice of auction mechanism for a common-value or affiliated-values asset by endogenous decisions whether to incur a participation cost (and observe a private signal), or forego ...
The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes
(Department of Economics, 2006)
Studies examining welfare-to-work program effectiveness present mixed and sometimes discrepant findings, partly due to research design, data, and methodological limitations. Using administrative data on Missouri and North ...
Neckties in the Tropics: A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity
(Department of Economics, 2005)
Some cultural goods, like clothes and films, are consumed socially and are thus characterized by the same consumption network externalities as languages. At the same time, producers of new cultural goods in any one country ...
Is Teacher Pay “Adequate”?
(Department of Economics, 2005)
In school finance lawsuits plaintiffs often claim that pay levels are not sufficient to recruit teachers who can deliver constitutionally-mandated levels of educational services. In this paper I consider several ways in ...
Collaboration: Transforming the Concept to Practice in Missouri Judicial Circuits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
In fiscal year 2006, the Missouri Department of Social Services, Children's Division (CD) and the Office of State Courts Administrator (OSCA) decided to partner again. The two agencies decided to offer a training opportunity ...
Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data
(Department of Economics, 2006)
Researchers often seek to understand the effects of state policies or institutions on individual behavior or other outcomes in sub-state-level observational units (e.g., election results in state legislative districts). ...
Moving Toward Implementation Through Interagency Education: Concurrent Planning in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
In child abuse and neglect cases, a reunification plan for putting the child(ren) back in the care of the parent(s) is developed in tandem with an alternative permanent placement plan for the child in a process termed ...
Courtroom Skills: Assessment of Training Quality and Participant Learning
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of the Courtroom Skills training was to improve the skills of juvenile officers and Children's Division case
workers in the area of court preparation and testimony. The major objectives of the training were for ...
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 ...
High Corruption Income in Ming and Qing China
(Department of Economics, 2005)
We develop an economic model that explains historical data on government corruption in Ming and Qing China. In our model, officials' extensive powers result in corrupt income matching land's share in output. We estimate ...
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Inequality and Relative Deprivation on Trusting Behavior
(Department of Economics, 2005)
Several non-experimental studies report that income inequality and other forms of population-based heterogeneity reduce levels of trust in society. However, recent work by Glaeser et al. (2000) calls into question the ...
State Social Capital and Individual Health Status
(Department of Economics, 2004)
Recent studies have found that two state-level measures of social capital, average levels of civic participation and trust, are associated with improvements in individual health status. In this study we employ these measures, ...
Optimal Commodity Taxation When Land and Structures Must Be Taxed at the Same Rate
(Department of Economics, 2005)
We show that the optimal property tax rate rises with the ratio of land rents to structure and land development costs. California's high ratio of income to property tax revenue and the distribution of Federal housing ...
Networks, Standards and Intellectual Property Rights
(Department of Economics, 2007)
This paper reviews issues that lie at the intersection between intellectual property rights (IPR) and network effects, especially in the context of the global economy. Some of the relevant questions are: (1) How do IPR ...
Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance
(Department of Economics, 2006)
We use administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of earnings impact estimates for a job training program based on alternative nonexperimental methods. We consider regression adjustment, Mahalanobis ...