This study estimates the short-run effects of the structure of the local economy on high school dropout rates in agricultural areas in the United States from 2000 to 2010. Repeated cross-sections of census data are matched to state-level agricultural price indices and data on the regional...

This study estimates the impact of childhood malnutrition on educational achievement among Peruvian children. While there is growing evidence in the literature that a child’s nutrition is important for his or her own educational development, this paper will focus on the nuances of what type of...

This paper examines, within the Vietnamese context, the role of relative deprivation, as proposed by Stark (1984) and Stark and Taylor (1989, 1991), in the dynamics of internal migration. The conventional wisdom in the economics of migration literature, such as the model of Harris and Todaro...

This paper estimates the relationship between changes in academic performance for pre-school age children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and teacher education and classroom staffing using data from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS). Strong positive relationships between...

If your program team is exploring user fees, this Note describes the process for setting practical fees for an educational event.

This Note first describes ways to estimate the costs of delivering an event. Second, the note describes the costs of developing programs and events and ways to reduce these. Third, it explores ways to estimate the cost per person and how this changes as the scale of the program increases.

This Note explores in more detail whether your program has the characteristics that make it a good candidate for charging user fees or not. Some of the common questions that arise when Extension programs are considering charging fees or increasing them are listed.

Travel costs are unique when included in user fees because of Extension’s promise to provide equal access throughout the state. This Note explores this issue and several alternative ways to handle this.

This Note gives a quick overview of eight Extension Economics Notes and a related staff paper. It has a direct link to each Note.