For more than a century, the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas have been fervent rivals in college sports. We will have to wait another three months until they play each other again in basketball and another year for the football rivalry to renew once more.
In the meantime, both Kansas and Missouri have proven themselves worthy competitors in another sphere — making it easier for citizens of each state to get a job and begin climbing the economic ladder of opportunity.
In a recent joint publication for the Archbridge Institute and Knee Regulatory Research Center that I co-authored with Noah Trudeau and Sebastian Anastasi, we rank states based on the number of occupations that they license.
Continue reading at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Edward Timmons, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute and a service associate professor of economics and director of the Knee Regulatory Research Center at the John Chambers School of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He is regularly asked to provide expert testimony in state legislatures across the US on occupational licensing reform and the practice authority of nurse practitioners. His work is heavily cited by the popular press, and he has authored numerous articles for media publications.
Economics of Flourishing
For more than a century, the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas have been fervent rivals in college sports. We will have to wait another three months until they play each other again in basketball and another year for the football rivalry to renew once more.
In the meantime, both Kansas and Missouri have proven themselves worthy competitors in another sphere — making it easier for citizens of each state to get a job and begin climbing the economic ladder of opportunity.
In a recent joint publication for the Archbridge Institute and Knee Regulatory Research Center that I co-authored with Noah Trudeau and Sebastian Anastasi, we rank states based on the number of occupations that they license.
Continue reading at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Edward Timmons
Edward Timmons, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute and a service associate professor of economics and director of the Knee Regulatory Research Center at the John Chambers School of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He is regularly asked to provide expert testimony in state legislatures across the US on occupational licensing reform and the practice authority of nurse practitioners. His work is heavily cited by the popular press, and he has authored numerous articles for media publications.
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