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Methodological Issues in Analyses of Use and Adequacy of Community Services in Rural Areas: With an Application to Legal Services in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Cleve E. Willis  and
Charles O. Crawford
Cleve E. Willis
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts
Charles O. Crawford
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
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Three major problems appear common to recent research efforts aimed at measurement and assessment of the adequacy of community services. These include:

  1. (i) difficulties and inconsistencies which relate to the definition and interpretation of utilization behavior,

  2. (ii) econometric misspecification—e.g., omission of critical variables affecting needs or use—, and

  3. (iii) choice of inappropriate estimation technique when the dependent variable (e.g., use or non-use of the service) is dichotomous.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1976 , pp. 29 - 39
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This paper emanates from the work of Regional Project NE-77 and is in support of Title V objectives. Massachusetts Experiment Station Paper 2075.

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