Education, Health, And Human Capital MCQs

Option A: The brain drain

Option B: human capital deterioration

Option C: productivity

Option D: labor degradation

Correct Answer: The brain drain ✔

Option A: natural resources

Option B: body of knowledge

Option C: land

Option D: quantity of labor

Correct Answer: body of knowledge ✔

Option A: Public expenditure per student for higher education is about ten times as high as for primary education

Option B: The expansion of primary education redistributes benefits from the rich to the poor

Option C: Economists unanimously agree that LDCs should put greater priority on primary education

Option D: Boys are sent to schools far more often than girls

Correct Answer: Economists unanimously agree that LDCs should put greater priority on primary education ✔

Option A: About 18 percent of the world’s deaths are among children less than five years old

Option B: More than 98 percent of child deaths were in LDCs

Option C: World-wide child mortality rates increased from 1990 to 2002

Option D: 19 of the 20 countries with the highest child mortality were in Africa

Correct Answer: World-wide child mortality rates increased from 1990 to 2002 ✔

Option A: 17 million, 7 million

Option B: 7 million, 0.7 million

Option C: 3 million, 1 million

Option D: 0.5 million, 5 million

Correct Answer: 17 million, 7 million ✔

Option A: due to a lack of education

Option B: a class system in which the elite are contemptuous of manual work

Option C: upper-and middle-class westerners

Option D: The lack of bargaining power y cheap labor

Correct Answer: a class system in which the elite are contemptuous of manual work ✔

Option A: The amount of brain drain

Option B: Marginal utility

Option C: Marginal Product

Option D: The substitutability of labor to capital

Correct Answer: Marginal Product ✔

Option A: 30 to 40 years, about the same as in 1995

Option B: 30 to 40 years, a fall of more than 10 years from 1995

Option C: 50 to 60 years, about the same as in 1995

Option D: 70 years, an increase from 1995

Correct Answer: 30 to 40 years, a fall of more than 10 years from 1995 ✔

Option A: Development generally improves the health system while better health increases productivity social cohesion, and economic welfare

Option B: Life expectancy is probably the best single indicator of national health levels

Option C: Life expectancy in Africa increased steadily from 1994 to 2003 due to better health care

Option D: There are growing inequalities in investment in health worldwide

Correct Answer: Life expectancy in Africa increased steadily from 1994 to 2003 due to better health care ✔

Option A: high formal education and training

Option B: better health and physical condition of the labor force

Option C: Both a and b are correct

Option D: None of the above is correct

Correct Answer: Both a and b are correct ✔

Option A: I and II only

Option B: III and IV only

Option C: I, II and III only

Option D: I, II , III and IV

Correct Answer: I and II only ✔

Option A: mortality-adjusted lifelong

Option B: premature living age

Option C: life mortality-fertility ratio

Option D: disability-adjusted life years

Correct Answer: disability-adjusted life years ✔

Option A: individuals pay the full cost of their education

Option B: government subsidizes schooling

Option C: education persons migrate more

Option D: capital and unskilled labor are complements

Correct Answer: individuals pay the full cost of their education ✔

Option A: 60 million

Option B: 10 million

Option C: 3 million

Option D: million

Correct Answer: 3 million ✔