Economists Leigh Linden and Jonah Rockoff researched the effect of the proximity of the residences of registered sex offenders to the values of other homes in the same area and found that the effects of having a sex offender in the neighborhood
A) are widespread and tend to remain unchanged with distance.
B) are virtually nonexistent.
C) reduce the average home value in the area by 50 percent.
D) are highly localized and diminish rapidly with distance.
D
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Which of the following is NOT necessary for a firm to engage in price discrimination?
A) The firm must be able to identify different types of buyers. B) The firm must be able to separate buyers by preventing resales from one customer to another. C) The firm must produce output for different buyers at different costs. D) The firm must sell a product that cannot be resold.
Faced with the evidence of poor working conditions and low wages in the border maquiladoras, economists
A) shrug their shoulders and ignore the issue. B) agree that trade theory is thus proven hollow and internally inconsistent. C) argue that U.S. consumers should not consume lettuce. D) argue that the poor conditions and low wages are actually improvements for the Mexican workers, and may be cited as gains-from-trade. E) argue that Mexico's generally high overall productivity offsets these conditions.