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 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

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 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

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

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

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.