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, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at St. Francis University, writes frequently on the history and rise of occupational licensing and it’s relation to economic mobility.
Clay Routledge, PhD, is the Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute. As a leading expert in existential psychology, his work focuses on helping people reach their full potential and build meaningful lives. Follow his work @clayroutledge and subscribe to his newsletter, Flourishing Fridays.
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, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at St. Francis University, writes frequently on the history and rise of occupational licensing and it’s relation to economic mobility.
Clay Routledge
Clay Routledge, PhD, is the Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute. As a leading expert in existential psychology, his work focuses on helping people reach their full potential and build meaningful lives. Follow his work @clayroutledge and subscribe to his newsletter, Flourishing Fridays.
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