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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
Extract
Three major problems appear common to recent research efforts aimed at measurement and assessment of the adequacy of community services. These include:
(i) difficulties and inconsistencies which relate to the definition and interpretation of utilization behavior,
(ii) econometric misspecification—e.g., omission of critical variables affecting needs or use—, and
(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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- Research Article
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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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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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