Our study examines the dynamic structure of welfare participation and the labor market involvement of recipients starting in the early 1990s and extending through 1999 in the core counties containing six major urban areas: ...

This dissertation consists of three chapters that answer an overarching question: "How do foreign-born instructors assimilate and acculturate into U.S. academia as an immigrant-receiving environment?" Across the three ...

Biofuels policies have a large impact on food-grain commodity prices, first and foremost by linking biofuel prices to feedstock prices. The multiplier effect of higher biofuel prices on feedstock prices is shown to be very ...

We assess 47 peer-reviewed articles that have applied stated economics methods to measure the farm-level impacts of Bt cotton in developing agriculture from 1996. We focus on methods, although findings are also contrasted and compared in qualitative...

This dissertation contributes to the study of the Chinese economy by elaborating China’s alternative economic system, examining the evolution of Chinese environmental policies, and proposing a Chinese Green Job Guarantee. Delineating China’s...

This paper presents an overview of consumer financial well-being in transitional China. It provides an up-to-date and overall description of the Chinese urban households’ assets, liabilities, income, and consumption patterns. The data employed were...

Millennials is the largest population in the United States. Compared with their parents and grandparents, they have to shoulder more responsibilities to prepare financially for retirement. It is critical for Millennials ...

The spatial distribution of economic activity has been the subject of much theoretical study during the last 150 years. The two-state study which provides primary evidence for this article is, to the authors' knowledge, the first attempt to analyze...

Over the past two decades, Saudi Arabia has witnessed acceleration in both national unemployment and environmental degradation. These two areas are at the forefront of being very real challenges. In solving the ...

This study uses a stochastic model to analyze the impact of not extending the ethanol tax credit, the ethanol import tariff, or the $1.00 per gallon biodiesel tax credit on the biofuels and agricultural commodity markets.

and the Marxian economics have different perspectives and policy recommendations to the international exchange and employment policies. After analyzing these approaches, I conclude that the open economy models can be beneficial and create a solution to the refugee...

This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader historical context of U...

"The University of Missouri-Columbia's illustrious history has been preserved in books, newsletters, manuscripts, reports, photographs, and newspapers; and collected by the University Libraries, the University Archives, ...

States. We apply double/debiased machine learning (DML) to obtain consistent estimators under the high-dimensional control variable set. By tracking the first 10 years of their professional work experience, we find that there barely exist effects on young...

A two-country extension of an ex ante simulation model of research and development (R&D) in agriculture developed by Lence, Hayes, McCunn, Smith, and Niebur (2005) is used to analyze issues regarding intellectual property ...

Asthma is a common condition in adolescence and finding a way to optimize asthma care management is a priority in primary care. The purpose of this project was to introduce an electronic asthma action plan using a ...

school's analytical lens. The chapter also presents Modern Money Theory's insights that help understand how monetary policy works, accompanied by a description of Minsky's capital market route in the context of the Modern Manager Capitalism regime...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine family structure differences in debt types and burdens of American families. Design/methodology/approach: Data are obtained from the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances. Eight ...

in the conservation-tillage adoption equation, but significant only at the 5.1% (10.2%) level in one- (two-) tailed tests. The coefficient for conservation- tillage adoption was positive in the herbicide-resistant seed adoption equation, but significant only at the 7...

This paper studies the impact of fuel ethanol on motor gasoline market, especially how the gasoline price will be affected if fuel ethanol takes a big share of motor fuel consumption. A system of structural equations is estimated over historical...