This report gives a comprehensive overview of a three-year extension education program designed to provide educational/technical assistance to the tourism industry serving the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in northeastern Minnesota.

Demand functions for teaching, research and extension (TRE) personnel in seven administrative units of U.S. agricultural experiment stations are estimated from panel data, decennial observations, 1950 to 1987. The results reveal that the demand for the services of TRE personnel has not declined...

Replaced with revised version of paper 01/30/06.

Scholarly societies in economics (and many other professions) are clubs that provide members with a range of club goods, many of which have broader and economically significant spillover consequences for society at large. Yet surprisingly little is known about the historical evolution or current...

The purpose of this paper is to present some empirical evidence from a developing agriculture in northwestern India, evidence which shows that schooling of the farm people contributes to their useful productive abilities.