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42. Income mobility is the ability to improve one's economic circumstances over time. If we compare income mobility in relative terms, the standard way to measure is to compare wheather a person's income places her higher up in the income distribution than her parents' income.
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1. An income tax is progressive if Multiple Choice lower-income households pay a larger share of...
1. An income tax is progressive if Multiple Choice lower-income households pay a larger share of their income in taxes than higher-income households. higher-income households pay a larger share of their income in taxes than lower-income households. most of the tax revenue is used to benefit lower-income households. most of the tax revenue is used to benefit higher-income households. 2. Among the reasons for high CEO pay are all of the following EXCEPT Multiple Choice the people who are capable...
Labor Economics, multiple choice questions 1. In the leisure-income model, the wage constraint shows a. the...
Labor Economics, multiple choice questions
1. In the leisure-income model, the wage constraint shows a. the points that maximize a worker's utility b. all points that are equally preferred c. the wage rates that affect work decisions d. the available combinations of leisure and income 2. The slope of a wage constraint reflects the: a. rate at which a person is willing to substitute leisure for income c. income effect b. price of leisure d. substitution effect 3. When a...
Why would we see the prices on US government bonds suddenly rise? Multiple Choice Bond prices...
Why would we see the prices on US government bonds suddenly rise? Multiple Choice Bond prices can only rise if the US government pays more interest on these investments They would rise if there was suddenly lots of bad economics news like higher unemployment an increase in natural disasters like explding volcanoes, or the start of new wars le China attacks Taiwan), then we would see bond prices rise on US government bonds If we had a sudden explosion of...
Multiple Choice (a) [1 point) Which of the following would be a good candidate for an...
Multiple Choice (a) [1 point) Which of the following would be a good candidate for an interface? A. Modeling that robins, geese, and cardinals are birds B. Modeling that wheels are components of cars, trucks and buses C. Modeling that fish, people and dogs are able to swim D. Modeling that students, administrators, and faculty are all people (b) Choose the feature favored by supporters of the Agile Manifesto: The Aglie Manifesto reads; We are uncovering better ways of developing...
2. Multiple Choice: Choose the Appropriate Methodology Consider the following statistical statist...
Answer all the multiple choice
2. Multiple Choice: Choose the Appropriate Methodology Consider the following statistical statistical models / methodologies: (a) Two-sample t-test (b) One-Way ANOVA using Dummy Coding (c) One-Way ANOVA using Cell Means Coding (d) One-Way ANOVA using Effects Coding (e) Two-Way ANOVA (f) Post-Hoc Analysis g) RCB (Completely Randomized Block Design) (h) BIBD (Balanced Incomplete Block Design) (i) ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) (i) Repeated Measures (k) None of the above 10 people to determine which of two...
Multiple Choice Envision a situation in which the federal government decides that corporations don't pay enough...
Multiple Choice
Envision a situation in which the federal government decides that corporations don't pay enough taxes (even though the U.S. corporate tax rate is 38% - the highest in the world). Also, at the same time, elected officials feel that voters will always fall for the class warfare argument that greedy corporations have too much money, so the government should take some money from the successful businesses and give it to the poor. (As W.C. Fields used to say,...
Multiple choice 1. Which of the following programs is superior in terms of its ability to...
Multiple choice 1. Which of the following programs is superior in terms of its ability to direct payments to those individuals or families in greatest need of assistance? A.Social assistance or welfare B.Unemployment insurance C.Canada Pension Plan D.None of the above choices are correct. 2. The difference between a conventional welfare program and a negative income tax program is that: A.Recipients of the negative income tax program will receive higher levels of total income than they would under conventional social...
Mill and Kant questions- ethics multiple choice 2) 6) Question 2 (1 point) In the second...
Mill and Kant questions- ethics
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Question 2 (1 point) In the second paragraph of the following text, Millargues for half of the main conclusion he is arguing for in the entire text. What is the main explicit premise Mill uses in the second paragraph to prove half of his main conclusion? Mill (1863, pp. 24-26) writes: The utilitarian doctrine is that happiness is desirable as an end, and is the only thing that is so; anything...
2. Education: In this question we will explore some of the factors that influence how much...
2. Education: In this question we will explore some of the factors that influence how much education a person may get. Suppose that a person's income2 is determined by his or her years of education (S) and level of ability (a) ; as follows: Furthermore, the cost of schooling, c, varies with ability (which is always strictly positive, a > 0): where b and ф > 0, (The parameter ф captures how quickly schooling costs increase with the level of...
Question 15 of 22 > A Los Angeles Times article reported that the artery walls of...
Question 15 of 22 > A Los Angeles Times article reported that the artery walls of people living within 100 meters of a highway thicken more than twice as fast as the average person's. Researchers used ultrasound to measure the carotid artery wall thickness of 1483 people living near freeways in the Los Angeles area. The artery wall thickness among those living within 100 meters of a highway increased by 5.5 micrometers (roughly 1/20th the thickness of a human hair)...
Labor Economics, multiple choice questions
1. In the leisure-income model, the wage constraint shows a. the points that maximize a worker's utility b. all points that are equally preferred c. the wage rates that affect work decisions d. the available combinations of leisure and income 2. The slope of a wage constraint reflects the: a. rate at which a person is willing to substitute leisure for income c. income effect b. price of leisure d. substitution effect 3. When a...
Why would we see the prices on US government bonds suddenly rise? Multiple Choice Bond prices can only rise if the US government pays more interest on these investments They would rise if there was suddenly lots of bad economics news like higher unemployment an increase in natural disasters like explding volcanoes, or the start of new wars le China attacks Taiwan), then we would see bond prices rise on US government bonds If we had a sudden explosion of...
Multiple Choice (a) [1 point) Which of the following would be a good candidate for an interface? A. Modeling that robins, geese, and cardinals are birds B. Modeling that wheels are components of cars, trucks and buses C. Modeling that fish, people and dogs are able to swim D. Modeling that students, administrators, and faculty are all people (b) Choose the feature favored by supporters of the Agile Manifesto: The Aglie Manifesto reads; We are uncovering better ways of developing...
Answer all the multiple choice
2. Multiple Choice: Choose the Appropriate Methodology Consider the following statistical statistical models / methodologies: (a) Two-sample t-test (b) One-Way ANOVA using Dummy Coding (c) One-Way ANOVA using Cell Means Coding (d) One-Way ANOVA using Effects Coding (e) Two-Way ANOVA (f) Post-Hoc Analysis g) RCB (Completely Randomized Block Design) (h) BIBD (Balanced Incomplete Block Design) (i) ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) (i) Repeated Measures (k) None of the above 10 people to determine which of two...
Multiple Choice
Envision a situation in which the federal government decides that corporations don't pay enough taxes (even though the U.S. corporate tax rate is 38% - the highest in the world). Also, at the same time, elected officials feel that voters will always fall for the class warfare argument that greedy corporations have too much money, so the government should take some money from the successful businesses and give it to the poor. (As W.C. Fields used to say,...
Mill and Kant questions- ethics
multiple choice
2)
6)
Question 2 (1 point) In the second paragraph of the following text, Millargues for half of the main conclusion he is arguing for in the entire text. What is the main explicit premise Mill uses in the second paragraph to prove half of his main conclusion? Mill (1863, pp. 24-26) writes: The utilitarian doctrine is that happiness is desirable as an end, and is the only thing that is so; anything...
2. Education: In this question we will explore some of the factors that influence how much education a person may get. Suppose that a person's income2 is determined by his or her years of education (S) and level of ability (a) ; as follows: Furthermore, the cost of schooling, c, varies with ability (which is always strictly positive, a > 0): where b and ф > 0, (The parameter ф captures how quickly schooling costs increase with the level of...
Question 15 of 22 > A Los Angeles Times article reported that the artery walls of people living within 100 meters of a highway thicken more than twice as fast as the average person's. Researchers used ultrasound to measure the carotid artery wall thickness of 1483 people living near freeways in the Los Angeles area. The artery wall thickness among those living within 100 meters of a highway increased by 5.5 micrometers (roughly 1/20th the thickness of a human hair)...
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