Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
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, Health Awareness
Description : For this presentation, Zhigang Feng shared his research into the correlations between health insurance policies and inequality in the United States.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
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, Health Awareness
Description : For this presentation, Zhigang Feng shared his research into the correlations between health insurance policies and inequality in the United States.
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:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
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:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : Through their research, Dustin White and others modeled firm behavior and showed that under certain conditions, profit can increase for some existing firms as the number of firms in the industry increases.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
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, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : For this project, Dustin White taught two sessions of a course in statistics and data analysis for First National Bank's compliance team. Subject matter included introductory statistics, mean testing, and linear regression, as well as visualization techniques.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Youth Programming
Description : This presentation was focused on a class project and game that can be used to teach high school students about economics using baseball examples.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : For this project, Dustin White provided a demonstration for the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : This paper conceptualizes and proposes the notion of the prosocial orientation of a firm. It contends that a firm’s prosocial behavior should be driven by several factors including; motives of society, the decision makers, its stakeholders, and its employees. It also suggest that a firm’s prosocial orientation has several positive consequences such as increased cooperation and teamwork, greater benefits and performance, and more secure and higher levels of investment in the firm. However, prosocial orientation can lead to free-riding and managers are advised to be careful about this.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Capacity Building
Description : Through a survey-based experimental study, this research assesses the influence of payment type (credit and debit cards) and availability of rewards on credit cards on consumer purchase intentions. It found that consumer use of credit cards stimulates intention to purchase whereas the use of debit cards motivates consumers not to spend.