Monique Skidmore
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 142979 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Monique Skidmore |
| NOMBRES | Monique |
| APELLIDO | Skidmore |
| FIRMA | SKIDMORE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6396-9519 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Explaining the Big Mac Urban‐Rural Price Gap in the United States
The Law of One Price (LOP) is a fundamental economic principle, yet its application in regional studies often excludes rural areas due to data limitations. We analyze price equalization across the US using Big Mac prices to address this gap. Our analysis focuses on three key questions: (i) Is there evidence of price equalization between urban and rural areas in the US over the short and long run? (ii) What factors drive urban‐rural price equaliza…
The Impacts of Heat and Air Pollution on Mortality in the United States
Extreme heat events stress the body and can result in fatalities, especially for those with underlying health problems. Air pollution is another threat to health and is an important confounder of extreme heat risks. However, previous empirical studies that have addressed the joint health impacts of air pollution and heat rarely considered the endogeneity and spillover effects of air pollution. To fill this research gap, this article investigates …
Impact of demolitions on neighboring property values in Detroit
Urban blight is a complex problem that has been challenging for cities in the United States “Rust Belt” region for many decades. However, in the wake of the real estate and financial crisis, it is also a growing challenge for urban communities in many states such as California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. Detroit was particularly hit hard, where more than 40,000 blighted structures were identified in 2014. To curb blight, the city mobilized the m…
Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma
PURPOSE: Recognizing signs of psychological distress is a critical first step in assisting people who are struggling with poor mental health to access help. However, community-level factors that impact recognition and stigma are underexplored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between rurality, other community-level variables, and individual variables with regard to the recognition and stigma of anxiety. METHODS: We use…
Cloud Seeding and Crops Yields
The North Dakota Cloud Modification Project was established in 1951 to reduce severe hail damage and increase precipitation in specific counties in North Dakota. Every year, participating counties receive cloud seeding treatment during the months of June, July, and August. Although some atmospheric studies have examined the efficacy of the treatment, few have used statistical procedures to determine how the program affected crop yields and crop l…
Special Issue
This special issue presents a compilation of five articles in urban economics. The articles offer a sampling of urban economic topics, beginning with a methods piece on evaluating spatially targete
Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder
In light of the continued risks that individuals with PDA behaviors face in potentially transitioning to illicit opioid use, the findings of this survey suggested a continued need for public education and outreach. Of particular note is the perspective of those who have self-identified with the condition, as this population faces the largest risks of adverse health outcomes from illicit drug use within the survey respondents
Housing demolition and property tax delinquency
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the degree to which the demolition of low-quality structures affects property tax compliance in Detroit. During the real estate crisis, the rate of property tax delinquency in the city exceeded 50%. The demolition of dilapidated structures could lead to improvements in tax compliance in two ways. The first is through an amenity effect: removal of blighted structures improves the neighborhood and thus may…
The impact of a tax cut reform on land finance revenue
Over the past 2 decades, China’s local governments have tended to increase revenue through a large number of land sales when experiencing fiscal stress, i.e., generation of land finance revenue. However, this revenue source is inherently unsustainable. This paper examines the impacts of a major tax cut reform in China, namely, the Business Tax to Value-Added Tax Reform (B2V), on local governments’ land finance revenue and whether local government…
Explaining the spatial variation in American life expectancy
Trust and Patience after a Tornado
This study examines how individuals’ trust levels and patience are affected by a tornado event. Affected and unaffected people were surveyed after a 2013 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, that resulted in 24 fatalities. Findings suggest that those who self-identified as affected became more trusting in general as well as more trusting of police and fire authorities. Affected homeowners also exhibited less patience than their unaffected counterparts. Th…
Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century
Population growth, land allocation and conflict in Mali
This study analyses the linkages between rural-to-rural migration as measured by rural population growth and land-tenure conflict in southwestern Mali. Land-tenure rules in Mali are characterized by legal pluralism, leading to ambiguity about who has legal access to land and thereby increasing land-related conflicts. Data from 69 communes (townships) show that communes with less land per person tend to have more land-related conflicts. However, l…
Angry, Scared, and Unsure
Natural and manmade crises impact community-level behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. This article shares findings from a larger project about community behavioral health, relevant to the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, using data from a larger study, involving monthly surveys of a panel of key informants from Genesee County. The data come from open-response questions and are analyzed as qualitative data using g…
Blamed for Incompetence and Lack of Foresight and Left to Die’
NotesSee Inman (Citation) for an excellent review of the flypaper effect.The Roemer-Silvestre model is based on a political economy model that includes competing political parties that is representative of real decision making in local governments. The traditional flypaper effect model was based on a median voter approach with no real political dimension and claimed that the effect was an “anomaly.”The tax base does not include non-wage income su…
Do Industrial Tax Abatements Spur Property Value Growth
Despite ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of tax abatements, Michigan's Industrial Facilities Tax (IFT) abatement program has been widely and extensively used to boost local economic development. In this article, we estimate the effects of industrial property tax abatements on industrial, residential, and commercial property value growth in the context of regional competition for a panel of 152 communities in the five counties surroundin…
Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
In this article we investigate the relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general and trust in particular. We present new panel data evidence of another important determinant of trust – the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as sto…
Memo from Motown
Economic decline and racial tension have left indelible marks on Detroit and its region. Parallel tracks of recession and race exacerbate and have been exacerbated by Detroit’s political and governing culture and the long-term inability of its leadership to develop a stable governing regime. Over the past 60 years Detroit suffered significant losses of population, jobs and tax base, forcing the City to file for bankruptcy protection. The Detroit …
Making Ends Meet
Current property tax policies in Michigan severely constrain the ability of the City of Detroit to raise sufficient revenues, particularly in a weak economy. Almost half of the land area of the city does not contribute to the property tax effort and the valuation of the taxable properties has fallen substantially since the Great Recession. This article considers alternative definitions of the city’s tax base, including taxes based on land value o…
Ruling Myanmar
November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime’s 'Road Map for Democracy' The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and procedures under which they will be conducted have been in place for seven months and quite widely publicized. Political controls remain repressive, freedom of expression and assembly does not exist,…
"The Lady and the "Wretched American
Shannon Speed is contributing editor of "Human Rights Forum," the AAA Committee for Human Rights column in Anthropology News
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
Book Review| July 01 2008 Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma. Judith L. Richell. Monique Skidmore Monique Skidmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 393–394. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monique Skidmore; Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma. Agricultu…
Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying
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Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying authoritarian pressures that characterise Myanmar/Burma’s military regime
Myanmar
Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution even as economic, minority, developmental and environmental situations continue to worsen. Myanmar: the state, community and the environment explains how and why the government and opposition groups have missed opportunities to find a way out of this political impasse. New insights are provided on aspects of Myanmars economic development, focusing on the vital rice-marketing sector and attempts to…
Darker than midnight
The Burmese military State constructs fear and vulnerability among its citizenry through the strategic use of political violence. Fear is inherently temporal and, unlike despair, requires that one have the ability to envisage alternatives to a future of complete domination. Burmese people strive not to express fear, and the anthropologist's articulation of fear contrasts with the silence that fear engenders among them. In this article I reflect o…
Karaoke Fascism
Monique Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004,264 pages.Skidmore did difficult fieldwork in Burma during 1996, a period of increasing turmoil as students and others openly demonstrated against the current regime. Her research was, ostensibly, to understand the idioms of emotional and psychological distress used by various Burmese communities, and to explore the role of reli…
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Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying authoritarian pressures that characterise Myanmar/Burma’s military regime
Tax and expenditure limitations and the fiscal relationships between state and local governments
Angry, Scared, and Unsure
Natural and manmade crises impact community-level behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. This article shares findings from a larger project about community behavioral health, relevant to the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, using data from a larger study, involving monthly surveys of a panel of key informants from Genesee County. The data come from open-response questions and are analyzed as qualitative data using g…
Memo from Motown
Economic decline and racial tension have left indelible marks on Detroit and its region. Parallel tracks of recession and race exacerbate and have been exacerbated by Detroit’s political and governing culture and the long-term inability of its leadership to develop a stable governing regime. Over the past 60 years Detroit suffered significant losses of population, jobs and tax base, forcing the City to file for bankruptcy protection. The Detroit …
Ruling Myanmar
November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime’s 'Road Map for Democracy' The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and procedures under which they will be conducted have been in place for seven months and quite widely publicized. Political controls remain repressive, freedom of expression and assembly does not exist,…
Explaining the spatial variation in American life expectancy
Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century
Myanmar
Despite deteriorating economic and developmental conditions, worsening environmental problems, and troubles arising from the unresolved status of its ethnic minorities, Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution. Myanmar’s economy continues to stagnate, with severe implications for its people. Low levels of international assistance have exacerbated the situation. Myanmar—the state, community and the environment examines the missed opportun…
Making Ends Meet
Current property tax policies in Michigan severely constrain the ability of the City of Detroit to raise sufficient revenues, particularly in a weak economy. Almost half of the land area of the city does not contribute to the property tax effort and the valuation of the taxable properties has fallen substantially since the Great Recession. This article considers alternative definitions of the city’s tax base, including taxes based on land value o…
The impact of a tax cut reform on land finance revenue
Over the past 2 decades, China’s local governments have tended to increase revenue through a large number of land sales when experiencing fiscal stress, i.e., generation of land finance revenue. However, this revenue source is inherently unsustainable. This paper examines the impacts of a major tax cut reform in China, namely, the Business Tax to Value-Added Tax Reform (B2V), on local governments’ land finance revenue and whether local government…
Population growth, land allocation and conflict in Mali
This study analyses the linkages between rural-to-rural migration as measured by rural population growth and land-tenure conflict in southwestern Mali. Land-tenure rules in Mali are characterized by legal pluralism, leading to ambiguity about who has legal access to land and thereby increasing land-related conflicts. Data from 69 communes (townships) show that communes with less land per person tend to have more land-related conflicts. However, l…
Menstrual Madness
Women's health in peri-urban Burma is conceived of in terms of blood, strength, and the relationship between the body, the body politic, and the local environment. The regulation and volume of blood at menstruation and childbirth are the fundamental indicators of health and well-being. Well-being is contingent on harmony in and between the body and the universe. Blood flow is a key symbol through which women's beliefs and practices concerning the…
Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying
Australian Anthropologists and Public Anthropology
In 2004, the authors convened a session entitled 'Public Anthropology' at the Australian Anthropology Society's annual conference. The session examined the development of a specific stream of public anthropology in the USA and Britain and its articulation by writers such as Robert Borofsky in the aftermath of the Yanomami controversy and Richard Werbner in the African context. In pursuing this discussion, we identify three key characteristics tha…
Do Industrial Tax Abatements Spur Property Value Growth
Despite ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of tax abatements, Michigan's Industrial Facilities Tax (IFT) abatement program has been widely and extensively used to boost local economic development. In this article, we estimate the effects of industrial property tax abatements on industrial, residential, and commercial property value growth in the context of regional competition for a panel of 152 communities in the five counties surroundin…
Property Tax Rate Changes and Rates of Development
Property Tax Rate Changes and Rates of Development
Tax and expenditure limitations and the fiscal relationships between state and local governments
Do Natural Disasters Promote Long‐run Growth?
In this article, we investigate the long‐run relationships among disasters, capital accumulation, total factor productivity, and economic growth. The cross‐country empirical analysis demonstrates that higher frequencies of climatic disasters are correlated with higher rates of human capital accumulation, increases in total factor productivity, and economic growth. Though disaster risk reduces the expected rate of return to physical capital, risk …
Menstrual Madness
Women's health in peri-urban Burma is conceived of in terms of blood, strength, and the relationship between the body, the body politic, and the local environment. The regulation and volume of blood at menstruation and childbirth are the fundamental indicators of health and well-being. Well-being is contingent on harmony in and between the body and the universe. Blood flow is a key symbol through which women's beliefs and practices concerning the…
Darker than midnight
The Burmese military State constructs fear and vulnerability among its citizenry through the strategic use of political violence. Fear is inherently temporal and, unlike despair, requires that one have the ability to envisage alternatives to a future of complete domination. Burmese people strive not to express fear, and the anthropologist's articulation of fear contrasts with the silence that fear engenders among them. In this article I reflect o…
Karaoke Fascism
Do state motor fuel sales-below-cost laws lower prices
Economic development and the impacts of natural disasters
Karaoke Fascism
Monique Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004,264 pages.Skidmore did difficult fieldwork in Burma during 1996, a period of increasing turmoil as students and others openly demonstrated against the current regime. Her research was, ostensibly, to understand the idioms of emotional and psychological distress used by various Burmese communities, and to explore the role of reli…
Myanmar
Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution even as economic, minority, developmental and environmental situations continue to worsen. Myanmar: the state, community and the environment explains how and why the government and opposition groups have missed opportunities to find a way out of this political impasse. New insights are provided on aspects of Myanmars economic development, focusing on the vital rice-marketing sector and attempts to…
Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar)
Myanmar
Despite deteriorating economic and developmental conditions, worsening environmental problems, and troubles arising from the unresolved status of its ethnic minorities, Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution. Myanmar’s economy continues to stagnate, with severe implications for its people. Low levels of international assistance have exacerbated the situation. Myanmar—the state, community and the environment examines the missed opportun…
Australian Anthropologists and Public Anthropology
In 2004, the authors convened a session entitled 'Public Anthropology' at the Australian Anthropology Society's annual conference. The session examined the development of a specific stream of public anthropology in the USA and Britain and its articulation by writers such as Robert Borofsky in the aftermath of the Yanomami controversy and Richard Werbner in the African context. In pursuing this discussion, we identify three key characteristics tha…
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
Book Review| July 01 2008 Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma. Judith L. Richell. Monique Skidmore Monique Skidmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 393–394. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monique Skidmore; Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma. Agricultu…
Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying
Pdf
Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world’s attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country’s economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying authoritarian pressures that characterise Myanmar/Burma’s military regime
"The Lady and the "Wretched American
Shannon Speed is contributing editor of "Human Rights Forum," the AAA Committee for Human Rights column in Anthropology News
Making Ends Meet
Current property tax policies in Michigan severely constrain the ability of the City of Detroit to raise sufficient revenues, particularly in a weak economy. Almost half of the land area of the city does not contribute to the property tax effort and the valuation of the taxable properties has fallen substantially since the Great Recession. This article considers alternative definitions of the city’s tax base, including taxes based on land value o…
Ruling Myanmar
November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime’s 'Road Map for Democracy' The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and procedures under which they will be conducted have been in place for seven months and quite widely publicized. Political controls remain repressive, freedom of expression and assembly does not exist,…
Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
In this article we investigate the relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general and trust in particular. We present new panel data evidence of another important determinant of trust – the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as sto…
Memo from Motown
Economic decline and racial tension have left indelible marks on Detroit and its region. Parallel tracks of recession and race exacerbate and have been exacerbated by Detroit’s political and governing culture and the long-term inability of its leadership to develop a stable governing regime. Over the past 60 years Detroit suffered significant losses of population, jobs and tax base, forcing the City to file for bankruptcy protection. The Detroit …
Blamed for Incompetence and Lack of Foresight and Left to Die’
NotesSee Inman (Citation) for an excellent review of the flypaper effect.The Roemer-Silvestre model is based on a political economy model that includes competing political parties that is representative of real decision making in local governments. The traditional flypaper effect model was based on a median voter approach with no real political dimension and claimed that the effect was an “anomaly.”The tax base does not include non-wage income su…
Do Industrial Tax Abatements Spur Property Value Growth
Despite ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of tax abatements, Michigan's Industrial Facilities Tax (IFT) abatement program has been widely and extensively used to boost local economic development. In this article, we estimate the effects of industrial property tax abatements on industrial, residential, and commercial property value growth in the context of regional competition for a panel of 152 communities in the five counties surroundin…
Population growth, land allocation and conflict in Mali
This study analyses the linkages between rural-to-rural migration as measured by rural population growth and land-tenure conflict in southwestern Mali. Land-tenure rules in Mali are characterized by legal pluralism, leading to ambiguity about who has legal access to land and thereby increasing land-related conflicts. Data from 69 communes (townships) show that communes with less land per person tend to have more land-related conflicts. However, l…
Angry, Scared, and Unsure
Natural and manmade crises impact community-level behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. This article shares findings from a larger project about community behavioral health, relevant to the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, using data from a larger study, involving monthly surveys of a panel of key informants from Genesee County. The data come from open-response questions and are analyzed as qualitative data using g…
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