This study applies the logic of queuing thcory to the availability of hospital services in a ruraloriented. multicounty planning district in northwestern lower Michigan. The seven hospitals in the area had 611 beds and provided services for 489 patient-days in 1 year. The study found that the...

In regional economic development planning, achieving one objective often results In achieving less of another, tradeoffs exist among alternatives Two parts of area economic objectives are examined-gross regional product versus local employment and local wage bill versus local employment-and...

Structural differentiation, a concept used here to measure differences between rural U.S. counties, can assist policymakers in determining degrees of rural development. The Guttman scale of structural differentiation, derived from Dun and Bradstreet retail establishment data, is examined for its...

This article describes the structure and dynamic properties of the Food and Agricultural Policy Simulator (FAPSIM), an annual econometric model of the US agricultural sector F APSIM estimates a simultaneous price-quantity equilibrium solution for a set of individual commodity models developed...

Measures of per capita dollar incomes seem, at first hand, to be a good simple first approximation to obtaining some idea of the differences that exist between farmers' living standards and those of nonfarmers at any one point in time. But unfortunately, the following factors, among others, make...