Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Economic Sufficiency Awareness
Description : Since 2009, CPAR has provided data to the Planning Committee of the Nebraska Legislature. The Planning Committee serves to identify the trends, opportunities, and challenges that are shaping Nebraska, and provide their feedback on next steps to the legislature. In November, we presented data on the rainy day fund and on changing demographics of Nebraska.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Rural Community Vitality, Economic Sufficiency Awareness
Description : Every two years, the City of Manhattan conducts a community survey from a sample of households to seek feedback regarding satisfaction of services and support for future projects. In 2019, the City conducted its third community survey from March 18 through April 22. The survey was emailed to 5,348 households across the city, and 1,000 postcards were mailed to random sample of addresses, both including the survey link and unique password. The 2019 community survey received a 22% response rate.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Health Awareness
Description : In this paper, Zhigang Feng and others studied the interaction between health disparity and income inequality. They extend the prototypical macro health model in several directions. Their model considers the impact of health on labor earning and medical spending. Moreover, they identify a "health premium" of insurance coverage that the insured is more likely to stay healthy or recover from unhealthy status. They hence modeled the effects of income on health and mortality risk through endogenous health insurance choice. All these extensions are essential to simulate the observed joint distribution of income and health status, household's health insurance choice, and medical spending by income level and over their life cycle. Quantitative analysis reveals a significant impact of individual's income in early life on their health at adulthood, which will be reinforced by and subsequently amplify the negative effect of bad health on labor earning and income inequality. They conducted comparative analysis of health policies intended to alleviate health disparity and income inequality. Providing universal insurance coverage will narrow the health and life expectancy gap. Such policy benefits lower skilled the most, which adds additional weight to the poor in the aggregate income distribution and counteracts the positive effect of improved health on income inequality. While the implementation of universal basic income reduces income inequality and mean-tested public insurance will attenuate its effect on health disparity.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Security & Intelligence, Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : The University of Nebraska at Omaha, with the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska, has been awarded a contract with U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) to streamline and update database processes to increase efficiencies for the command’s personnel team.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : Payment timing is conceptualized as the key dimension that differentiates payment types such as consumers pay now with debit cards and pay later with credit cards. This paper proposes a quantitative assessment of the payment timing differences on consumer choices through creating five different payment types (pay in advance, pay now, pay in 30 days, pay in 60 days, and pay in 90 days).
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 20
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 360
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Rural Community Vitality, Neighborhood Revitalization
Description : CPAR worked with the Nebraska Community Foundation to conduct the Nebraska Youth Survey. Over 1,000 high school students in greater Nebraska responded. The results reveal the priorities, values, and desires of these individuals as well as factor that may influence their decision to return to or remain in Greater Nebraska in the future.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 150
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
15
Topics:
Rural Community Vitality, Employment and Workforce, Income and Income Equality, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Neighborhood Revitalization, Capacity Building
Description : CPAR worked with a variety of statewide partners to understand the impact of COVID-19 on Nebraska’s businesses and nonprofit organizations. In the Nebraska Business Response Survey Report, conducted in April 2020, we examine the impacts of COVID-19 by industry and region.conducted a second round of the Nebraska Business Response Survey. In June 2020 a follow up survey was conducted.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : This project is designed to provide improved data processing capability to USSTRATCOM J4 with respect to personnel reporting. The project will enhance the use of data reported by various branches of the military to USSTRATCOM, and prepare that data for use in Business Intelligence software. Additionally, we anticipate providing training to the staff of USSTRATCOM J4 with respect to both the data and the software to create custom reports.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Global Engagement, Inequality, Income and Income Equality, Social Justice Awareness, International Support Awarenes
Description : In this project, Xiaoming Yang and others conducted research focused on underprivileged populations in India with the goal of building the first Social Venture Center in India.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Capacity Building
Description : For this project, the Economics department provided research for STRATCOM. Due to the nature of the community partner, information regarding this project is classified.