Quiz 4

Question 1

1. How many people are sterilized between 1976-77 in India?

Answer 1

a) 8.25 million.

Question 2

2. What is the name of Alwyn Young paper referenced in the chapter?

Answer 2

b) “The Gift of the Dying”.

Question 3

3. What did Gary Becker mean by the “quality-quantity trade-off”?

Answer 3

a) Parents with more children can spend less on each of them.

Question 4

4. What was the result of the Gibbons, Pitt and Rosenzweig paper? (This paper compared time series data on the availability of family planning clinics with fertility outcomes across different regions).

Answer 4

b) High fertility is the result of a lack of demand.

Question 5

5. What was the surprising result in the Duflo, Dupas Kremer paper? (This paper compared different interventions to address teenage pregnancies in Kenya).

Answer 5

a) Offering a free school uniform reduces teenage pregnancies, but only where the girls did not also get the sex-education program.