Contents, 1995 Issue of FERM Biennial




Contents, 1995 Issue of FERM Biennial


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Oleson, B., Bradshaw, E. & Hanna, S. (1995). It’s about time -
A family time use educational tool. Family Economics and Resource Management
Biennial
, 1, 71-72.


Families in the Information Age

Table
of Contents

 Note from the Editor Sherman Hanna

Can
Cyberspace Help Families and Consumers Manage Their Resources?


Sherman Hanna

Discovery
and Dissemination of Family Economics and Resource Management Information
in the Electronic Age
Janis Voege

Cruising
the Information Highway: Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Media
in Research
Mohamed Abdel-Ghany

Disseminating
New Knowledge Electronically
Carole J. Makela

Technology
– Means or End for the Discovery and Dissemination of Knowledge in a Cross-Cultural
Setting?
Gerry Olson

The
Role of Academic Units in Developing and Disseminating New Knowledge

Sharon Y. Nickols

Organizing
and Interpreting New Knowledge for Use by Professional Practitioners in
the Field
Sharon Seiling

Providing
for Professional Socialization of Undergraduate Students
Janis
M. Voege

The
Future of the Discipline and the Profession — A Graduate Student’s Perspective

Polly M. Pritchard

How Much
Should Consumers Be Willing to Pay for Information About Quality and Price?
Implications for Cyberspace


Michael Finke, Mona Ismail, Peng Chen, Chandrika Jayathirtha, Hui Wang,
Sun-Young Park, Sherman Hanna

Consumer
Information on the Electronic Superhighway
Constance Kratzer, Karen
Folk

Invest in Youth


Child
Support and Well Being
Andrea Beller

Collaboration
Builds Financial Skills of Youth
Linda Fox, Louise Parker

Experiential
Methods of Teaching Financial Management to Youth


Chris Koehler, Mary Ann Lawroski, Marilyn Bischoff

Expenditures
on Education for Female-Headed and Married Couple Households
Yoon
G. Jang

The
Household Education Expenditure Ratio: Exploring the Importance of Education

Sandra J. Huston

The
Effect of Children’s Educational Expectation on Non-Retirement Financial
Asset Accumulation


Y. Regina Chang

College
Savings: Schooling on Choices
Robert O. Weagley

Raising
Credit Smart Kids
Celvia S. Dixon, Etta Mae Westbrook, Linda K.
Bower

Parental
Expenditures on Children and Household Characteristics
M.J. Alhabeeb

Invest
in Youth: Using a Family Time Use Computer Program for Insights into Parents’
Time With Children


Brett Oleson, Eva Bradshaw, Sherman Hanna

Family Resource Management and Related Topics


Family
Economics and Resource Management in a Reorganized USDA


Jane Schuchardt and Julia Dinkins

Role
Set of Farm Women and Satisfaction With the Balance between Work and Leisure


Sharon M. Danes

Determinants
and Consequences of Reported Well-Being in the Province of Lublin, Poland


Mary Winter, Earl W. Morris, Krystyna Gutkowska, Marzena Jeewska, Teresa
Paaszewska-Reindl, Urszula Grzeszczak-wietlikowska, Krystyna elazna

Consumer
Satisfaction with Choice of Retirement Community: Is Selection Process
Related to Outcome?


Aimee D. Prawitz, Frances C. Lawrence, Patricia J. Wozniak

The Effect
of Managerial Behavior on Household Satisfaction
Jamie Sung, Kathryn
Stafford

Home-Based
Work: Gender Differences in Management Across Domains


Virginia Solis Zuiker, Kathryn Stafford, Ramona K. Z. Heck, Mary Winter

Teaching
Family Resource Management: A Teams-Games-Tournament Approach


M. E. Betsy Garrison, Lydia B. Blalock

Family Financial Management


Methods
of Data Collection From Debtors in Bankruptcy After Discharge: A Pilot
Study


Tahira K. Hira, Kyle L. Kostelecky

Living
On The Edge: Characteristics and Practices of Overextended Homeowners


Barbara M. O’Neill, Ruth H. Lytton, Kathleen R. Parrott

Factors
Affecting Retirement Savings of Women in Two Age Cohorts
Eunice
Kokrda, Sheran Cramer

How
Well Off Are Older Men and Women: Evidence from the 1989 Survey of Consumer
Finances


Sharon A. DeVaney

Family
Financial Management: One Family’s Process
Glenn Muske

The Impact
of Banking Deregulation on Family Checking Ownership and Balance


Jing Jian Xiao, Lakshmi Malroutu, Geraldine I. Olson

Using
Adult Education Principles in Financial Education for Low Income Audiences


Jeanne M. Hogarth, Josephine Swanson

Helping
First-Time Homebuyers Manage Their Money
Sharon P. Blase

Saving
and Investing for Retirement: The Effect of a Financial Education Program


Sharon A. DeVaney, Liz Gorham, Janet C. Bechman, Virginia Haldeman

Women’s
Financial Information Program: Reflections on Attitudinal and Behavior
Changes


Joan Kinney, Karen Goebel

Life
Course Variables and Financial Satisfaction
Elizabeth P. Davis,
Joan G. Gilbreth

Family Economics


Are
Women Installing Their Own Glass Ceilings?


Patricia Olson, Jonathan Fox, Kathryn Stafford

The Causality
Between Employment and Divorce
Jeffrey S. Gray

Income
and Expenditure Inequality: An Analysis Based on the Gini Coefficient

Hui Wang Winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award

 Food
Expenditure Patterns of Elderly Consumers: A Question of Time Allocation


Hui Wang, Chiu-Fui Joyce Mok, Jonathan Fox

Childcare
Expenditures of Households: Tobit Analyses for Different Family Types


Sun-Young Park, Chiu-Fui Joyce Mok

The
Impact of Rising Prices on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures: 1980-1991


Sun-Young Park, Wendy Wasnich, Jonathan Fox

Overview,
Intergenerational Interdependence: The Case of India and the United States


Sharon Y. Nickols, Carol B. Meeks, Krishna Oberoi, Anne L. Sweaney,
Thrity Vaswani

Effect
of Social-Economic and Housing Characteristics on the Housing Status of
the Elderly


Lillian Y. Zhu

Gambling:
Understanding the Issues for Families and Communities
Carole Makela,
Suzanne Tucker

Leisure
Expenditure Patterns Among Korean Families
Soon-Mi Kim, Gong-Soog
Hong

Midlife
and Older Displaced Workers and Healthcare Benefits
Jan L. B. Bowman


Note from the Editor

Sherman Hanna,
Professor, Consumer Sciences Department, 1787 Neil Ave., Columbus,
OH 43210-1290. Phone: 614-292-4584. FAX: 614-292-7536. Internet: hanna.1@osu.edu.
The Ohio State University

 

 

This first issue of the Family Economics and Resource Management
Biennial
is a miracle of technology. Papers submitted February 1, 1995
have gone through double-blind reviews, multiple revisions, and are being
published June 7, 1995 in the present format. Out of 60 submissions, 16
were selected for full, competitive papers. All 51 papers published in
this issue went through extensive revisions. Each author was required to
submit a point-by-point response to each reviewer suggestion, and show
either how the reviewer suggestion was followed or why it should not be
followed. The rapid pace of revisions (in some cases, several rounds of
revisions) was possible only with email.

 A small fortune was spent by authors on express delivery, although
some authors had communications software that allowed them to attach a
word processing file to an email message and obtain almost immediate delivery
for no cost.

 (In shopping for communications software, look for new versions
of programs in Windows that allow for the MIME, BinHex and UUencode protocols
of file attachment. I used the commercial version of Eudora, which allows
for all three protocols.)

 

 

The speed with which this journal was put together was possible because
of the fast but thorough work done by many reviewers and by my editorial
assistant, Shannon McPherson. Elizabeth P. Davis of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and her reviewers did great work with the graduate student paper competition.
Over 20 graduate student names are listed (with some duplications) on papers
in this issue. The winner of the graduate student paper competition, Hui
Wang, and the runner-up, Glenn Muske, certainly deserve congratulations.

 

 

There are 520 citations in the reference lists in this journal. There
would have been more, except some authors had to delete reference lists
in order to meet the page limitations imposed. The author most cited is
Mary Winter of Iowa State University, who is listed in 11 citations. The
second most cited authors are Ruth Deacon and Francille Firebaugh, who
are cited 9 times. Gary Becker is third with 7 citations, followed by Tahira
Hira with 6 citations.

 

 

The range of topics is wide. I have grouped the papers in this issue
according to topics, rather than strictly adhering to the chronological
order of presentation at the conference. There are 11 articles related
to the preconference theme of Families in the Information Age, and
10 articles related to the AAFCS conference theme of Invest in Youth.
There are 11 articles related to Family Financial Management. Assigning
some of the other articles to categories is difficult, but there are 11
articles I put in the Family Economics category and 7 articles I
put in the Family Resource Management category.

 

 

There are 69 tables and 34 figures. All figures were put in word processing
files. This was the most serious cause of frustration, as some authors
sent separate graphics files that could not be translated by Wordperfect
6.1 for Windows. In retrospect, I should have simply specified including
any graphics file in a word processing file. I relied on WordPerfect 6.1
for Windows because it can read and write more formats than the leading
competition, Microsoft Word for Windows.

 

 

In order to put as many worthy articles as possible into this publication,
we used a relatively small font, 9 point CG Times. Some of the tables are
in 8 point CG Times. We put the titles in 12 point and the abstracts in
11 point. This is a compromise between comfort and cost. The familiar 12
point Courier font is easier on aging eyes but costs more to print because
it takes a lot more paper to print a given number of words.

 

 

The style used is the American Psychological Association (APA,) but
with a few minor modifications of mine. The use of the percent sign with
numbers in text is allowed by APA, but many authors seem to assume that
there is a rule against it. My favorite pet peeve against an APA rule is
the inclusion of a comma before an ampersand in a reference. One of the
small satisfactions I obtain as an editor is the power to set the rules
in a way I find logical. You can learn APA style fairly well by
examining articles in this journal, but do not expect 100% adherence.

 

 

The leadership of the Family Economics and Resource Management Division
will have to decide whether to continue with this experiment in having
the proceedings be a journal for the next biennial preconference to AAFCS
in 1997. Watch for the call for papers in AAFCS Action and other
places. I will try to provide as much helpful information to the next editor
as my predecessor, Elizabeth P. Davis, provided to me.