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CORE 2401: Final Exam (Sample)
Instructor: Paul Sutton
Fall: 2008
Name:____________________
Multiple Guess (75 pts at 3 per question): Write the letter representing the Best answer
in the blank space next to the question number. No penalty for guessing.
1)____________ During what years of their life
experience menopause?
A) 20-29
B) 30-39
are American women most likely to
C) 40-49
D) 50 and up
2)_____________ Stephen Leavitt proposed that the legalization of abortion via the Roe Vs.
Wade supreme court decision had what consequence?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Reduced Sexual activity with increasing age
Higher Crime Rates in Urban Areas
Lower Crime Rates in all the U.S.
Greater aggregate welfare payments across the U.S.
% Inter-country
migrants
High
Low
A
H igh
% Int er-c ountry
migrants
High
% Int er-coun try
mi gra nts
% In ter -count ry
m ig rants
3)____________ Which of the figures below best captures the age specific fertility rate of
women in the United States?
High
L ow
Low
Low
10 2 0 30 40 5 0 60 70
10 2 0 30 40 50 60 70
1 0 20 30 40 5 0 60 7 0
Age
10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Age
Age
Age
B
C
D
4) ____________ Increasingly across America, lower paying jobs in fast food
restaurants, and other retail and service positions are being held by
recent immigrants to country rather than women and teenagers. This
primarily supports what theory of immigration?
A) Dual Labor Market Theory
D) World Systems Theory
B) Institutional Theory
C) Network Theory
E) New Household Economics Theory
5) ____________ Which countrys recieves the most immigrants (2000-2005)?
A) Jordan
B) Canada
C) Indonesa
D) Russia
E) Japan
6) _____________ Which of the following is NOT one of the primary ways in which
fertility reduction takes place in the world today?
A) Increased age at marriage
D) Celibacy
B) Use of Contraception
C) Abortion
E) Voluntary or Involuntary infecundity
7) _____________ Which of the following people is most likely to migrate?
A) An 18 year old female U.S. citizen
C) A 70 year old Japanese woman
B) A 6 year old Indian girl
D) A 100 year old Mexican male
8) _____________ Which of the following nations DOES WANT a higher birth rate?
A) Indonesia
B) China
C) Guatemala
D) India
E) Japan
9) ____________ Tyson Foods created an ‘underground railroad’ for cheap immigrant
labor in their food processing plants. They arranged for false
identification cards and really ‘greased the skids’ for an illegal
labor pool. What theory of migration does this best fit?
A) Institutional Theory
B) Cumulative Causation Theory
D) Neo-Classical Economic Theory
C) Network Theory
E) Dual Labor Market Theory
10) ____________ Which of the following countries sends the most emigrants?
A) Mexico B) Canada
C) South Africa
D) China
E) The United States
11) ____________ In 1890 immigration to the U.S. shifted in origin of immigrants.
Which of the following best describes this shift?
A) Northern and Western Europeans to Southeast Asians
B) Latin American to Northwestern Europe
C) China to Japan
D) Southern and Eastern Europe to Northern and Western Europe
E) Northern and Western Europe to Southern and Eastern Europe
12) ____________ The countries with the largest ‘elderly’ fraction of their population are: ?
A) Mostly in Southeast Asia
B) Mostly in Europe
D) Mostly Developing Countries
C) Mostly in Latin America
E) None of these
13) _____________ If you are living by yourself in a single family house, the
U.S. Census would define your situation as:
A) Family Household
B) Non-family Household
D) The “Friends” Household
C) Extended Family
E) None of these
14) _____________ What number best approximates the number of households in the
United States (in the year 2000) and is the fraction of them
described as “Marriage With Children” growing or shrinking?
A) 50 Million households: % “ Married with Children” is increasing
B) 100 Million households: % “Married with Children” is increasing
C) 50 Million households: % “Married with Children” is decreasing
D) 100 Million households: % “Married with Children” is decreasing
E) 150 Million Households: % “Married with Children” is decreasing
15) ____________ Which of the following statements is TRUE accorrding according to
information in Chapter 4 of Lester Brown’s Plan B 3.0:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
India’s population will stabilize by 2020
Freshwater from Snow/Ice masses in mountains is important and disappearing
80% of South America’s Glacier disappeared by the year 2000
Mount Kilamanjaro’s famous snowcap is predicted to melt away by 2100
All the above statements are false
16) ____________ Which age group(s) have the highest net worth (on average) in the United
States?:
A) Adolescents B) Young Adults
C) Middle Aged
D) Young Old
E) Old Old
17) _____________Which of the following countries had a relatively high population
growth rate and a relatively high level of economic development?
A)Mexico
B) Australia
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Vietnam
E) Benin
18) _____________ Which of the following people is regarded as a “Boomster” who
believe the world cannot be overpopulated:
A) Paul Ehrlich
B) Lester Brown C) John Weeks
D) Julian Simon E) Malthus
19) ____________ Increased food production in the next century will be required to feed
the world’s growing population. It will primarily come from:
A) Conversion of non-agricultural lands B) Aquaculture C) Increased crop yields
D) Increased oceanic fish catch
E) Hydroponic gardens on the moon
20) ____________ Which of the following statements are generally TRUE about an
aging population?
A) It’s wealthier B) Population Growth Rate is Slowing
D) All of the above
C) Death rates are rising
E) None of the above
21) ____________ List China, Mexico, the U.S. and India in descending order of per
capita CO2 emissions
A) India, U.S., China, Mexico
B) China, U.S., India, Mexico
C) Mexico, China, India, U.S.
D) U.S., India, China, Mexico
22) ____________ The Economist Magazine proposed “The Big Mac” index to measure:
A) Gross National Product
B) GDP per capita
D) Level of Economic Development
C) Purchasing Power Parity
E) None of these
23) ____________ Which of the following are problems with measurements of Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)?
A) Comparisons of GDP between countries do not account for Purchasing Power Parity
B) Nations do not account for the loss or gain of natural resources when calculating GDP
C) GDP does not account for the value of unpaid domestic labor
D) Wildfires and other natural disasters can actually make GDP increase
E) All of these are problems with measures with GDP
24) ____________ In general, as per capita income increases, the population growth
rate:
A) increases
B) decreases
C) remains the same
D) cannot be predicted
25) ____________ What number best approximates the global consumption of oil today?
A) One million Barrels per Day B) 100 million Barrels per Day
C)A Billion Barrels per Day
D) A Trillion Barrels per Day
True or False (30 Points at 2 points each): Put A “T” or an “F” indicating True or False
respectively in the blank space by each question. No penalty for guessing.
1) ____________ The world has consumed about one trillion barrels of oil so far.
2) ____________ Japan Imports is one of the world’s top five oil consumers
3) ____________ The fastest rate of increase (annual growth rate) of oil consumption is
in the United States.
4) ____________ Abortion was made legal in the U.S. in 1973, and remains legal in
Mexico.
5) ______________ Usually somewhere between the ages of 25 and 35 the number of
men in a population cohort equals the number of women.
6) ______________ More boy babies are born than baby girls
7) ______________ Besides having more money, rich people tend to live longer
8) ______________ The U.S. position at the Mexico City International conference on
population was that population growth and economic development
were intrinsically related.
9) ______________ The United States has already passed ‘peak oil’.
10) _____________ People over 70 years are more likely to migrate than people under 70
11) _____________ In general, fertility decreases for people immediately after they
migrate
12) _____________ Kuwait is the nation with the largest total number of Palestinians
13) _____________ On average over the whole globe fertility rates are increasing.
14) _____________ The fundamental driving force of most international migration today
is people escaping from environmental decay.
15) _____________ The population of Blacks and Asians in the United States today is
approximately equal.
Written Answers (95 Points from 5 & 15 Points questions): The following questions
require written, computational, and/or graphical responses.
Short Answer: The percentage of women who breast-feed their babies tends to decline with
modernization. Consequently, countries that experience modernization, experience decreased
breast-feeding, and also experience reduced fertility. How is this a quasi-paradox? (5 Points)
Short Answer: Describe how food, water, and energy are inter-related. How are these interrelationships problematic according to the book Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown. (5 Points)
Short Answer: What are Ansley Coale’s 3 pre-conditions for fertility decline? (5 Points)
Short Answer: The book Plan B 3.0 had a section titled: China: Why the existing economic
model will fail. Summarize the main points of that section of the book? (5 Points)
Short Answer: The Figure below is a population pyramid for the United States in the year
2000. What information does it convey? How can this pyramid be used to ‘think
demographically’? (5 Points)
Short Answer: Define the concept of “Carrying Capacity”, provide an argument as to
whether or not it is a useful concept, and describe how you would measure carrying capacity.
(5 Points)
Short Answer: Define the concepts of “Sustainable Development”, provide an argument as
to whether or not it is a useful concept, and describe how you would measure Sustainable
Development. (5 Points)
Long Answer: The book Plan B 3.0 paints a pretty bleak picture of the situation humanity is
faced with at the dawn of the 21st century. Nonetheless, Lester Brown does present a
Response Plan (The book is called ‘Plan B’ ). What is his response plan and tell me why
you personally think it is a good or bad set of ideas. (15 Points)
Long Answer: The world is presently about 50% urban (half the world’s inhabitants live in
urban areas). Describe the urban transition as it is really taking place in the world and
contrast it with the ideas of ‘Designing Cities for People’ that is presented in Lester Brown’s
Plan B 3.0 book. (15 Points)
Long Answer: The relationship between population growth and economic development is
hotly debated. Some argue that population growth retards economic development, some
argue that population growth is unrelated to economic development, and others argue that
population growth stimulates economic development. Summarize these arguments and
identify their proponents. (15 Points)
Long Answer: As we learned from all of your brilliant powerpoint presentations, Lester
Brown’s Book Plan B 3.0 does seem to exaggerate the ‘direness’ of social, economic, and
environmental circumstances humanity presently faces. Nonetheless it could be argued that
his main points are nonetheless correct. For this question simply make the case that the main
points made in Plan B 3.0 are generally correct or not and explain whether you think the
cases he makes are exaggerations or not.