Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The major reason education leads to higher wages is due to signaling.
2. Attending college can be seen as an individual’s attempt to raise their level of human capital.
3. Since mowing ones lawn is not done at their workplace, it is viewed as a use of their leisure time and thus (somewhat paradoxically) falls into the category of leisure.
4. One deficiency of labor-leisure indifference curve analysis is that because indifference curves are always tangent to the worker’s budget line, the model can not explain why some people choose not to work.
5. A firm’s marginal revenue product of labor equals the marginal product of labor times the cost per unit of the labor.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False

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