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.

This study will endeavour to quantify the innovative and imitative aspects of copper-zinc adoption for chosen regions of the State of South Australia. This will be followed by attempts to ‘explain’ any observed inter-regional differences in the estimated adoption parameters. Chapter 2 will...

Suppose that members of a society are accorded status as both economic and political agents. If the polity responds to the same actors for whom economic policy matters, a simultaneity of political and economic determination is introduced. The first goal of the research presented here concerns...