Chapter (6) Questions

Chapter (6) MCQs

1. Health and education are important objectives of development, as reflected in
a. Solow growth model
b. Amartya Sen’s capability approach
c. Rostow Stages of Growth
d. None of the above
2. ……………… is productive investments embodied in human persons
a. Physical capital
b. Human capital
c. Total capital
d. None of the above
3. Human capital includes
a. Skills
b. Abilities
c. Health
d. All of the above
4. Human capital often resulting from expenditures on
a. Education
b. job training programs
c. medical care
d. all of the above
5. As more human capital is accumulated, labor productivity ………
a. Rises
b. Falls
c. Stay the same
d. None of the above
6. Greater health capital may improve the returns to investments in education because
a. Health is a factor in school attendance
b. Public health programs need knowledge learned in school
c. Education needed in training of health personnel
d. All of the above
7. Greater education capital may improve the returns to investments in health because
a. A longer life raises the rate of return to education
b. Healthier people have lower depreciation of education capital
c. Basic hygiene and sanitation may be taught in school
d. All of the above
8. Health and education levels are much higher in
a. Low income countries
b. Middle income countries
c. High income countries
d. None of the above
9. Health and education levels are much higher in high-income countries because
a. With higher income, people and governments can afford to spend more on education
and health
b. With greater health and education, higher productivity and incomes are possible.
c. Both of them
d. None of them

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10. Private returns to education are …………… than social returns
a. Higher
b. Lower
c. Same
d. None of the above
11. ………….. axiom conclude that a household with sufficiently high income would not send its
children to work
a. Luxury
b. Substitution
c. Income
d. None of the above
12. ………….. axiom conclude that the quantity of output by a child is a given fraction of that
of an adult
a. Luxury
b. Substitution
c. Income
d. None of the above
13. The social rate of return on women’s education is ………. than that of men in developing
countries.
a. Higher
b. Lower
c. Same as
d. None of the above
14. …………. Are the benefits that accrue directly to an individual economic unit.
a. Private benefits
b. Social benefits
c. Social costs
d. Private costs
15. ………………. Are benefits of the schooling of individuals, including those that accrue to
others or even to the entire society
a. Private benefits of education
b. Social benefits of education
c. Social costs of education
d. Private costs of education
16. ……… are costs borne by both the individual and society from private education decisions
a. Private benefits of education
b. Social benefits of education
c. Social costs of education
d. Private costs of education
17. ……………… are the costs that accrue to an individual economic unit.
a. Private benefits
b. Social benefits
c. Social costs
d. Private costs
18. There is ………….. relationship between the education of women and family size.
a. Direct
b. Inverse
c. No
d. None of the above
19. The education system may increase inequality because
a. the poor lack access to education
b. the rich are disproportionately represented in secondary and university schooling.
c. A poor person’s rate of return to investment in education may be lower than a rich
person’s.
d. All of the above
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20. In developing countries higher educational facilities have tended to expand to the point
where
a. private benefits exceed social benefits
b. social benefits exceed private benefits
c. social benefits equal private benefits
d. none of the above

# Ans. # Ans. # Ans. # Ans. # Ans.

1 B 5 A 9 C 13 A 17 D
2 B 6 A 10 A 14 A 18 B
3 D 7 C 11 A 15 B 19 D
4 D 8 C 12 B 16 C 20 B

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