BR - Women's Education #2

What is plotted on the X-axis? How about the Y-axis?

• X: Total Fertility Rate

  Y: Completed years of schooling for women

• Y: Total Fertility Rate

  X: Completed years of schooling for women

• X: Female schooling and fertility

  Y: Completed years of schooling for women

• X: Total Fertility Rate

  Y: Baro and Lee (2010)

If you drew a line through all the dots, would it's slope be positive or negative or neither?

• Positive

• Negative

• Zero

• All of the above

What information can you infer about this graph?

[Infer = deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.]

• The infant mortality rate decreases as women complete more years of schooling

• The total fertility rate decreases as women complete more years of schooling

• Women are more likely to complete more years of school as a country's population grows

• Women are more likely to complete more years of school because fertilizer run off causes algae blooms

What is plotted on the X-axis? What about the Y-axis?

• X: Years

  Y: Percent of male and female college graduates

• Y: Years

  X: Percent of male and female college graduates

• X: Young female college completion has outpaced young male college completion

  Y: Percent of male and female college graduates

• W: Years

  T: Percent of male and female college graduates

What information can you infer from this graph?

• The graduation rate of males has always been greater than females

• In the early 1960's,

  the percentage of female graduations exceeded male graduates

• In the early 1990's,

  the percentage of female graduations exceeded male graduates

• The graduation rate of females has always been greater than males

What is plotted on the X-axis? What is plotted on the Y-axis?

• X: The wife's percent contribution to household income

  Y: Years

• Y: The wife's percent contribution to household income

  X: Years

• X: The wife's percent contribution to household income

  Y: Years in college

• Y: The wife's percent contribution to household income

  X: Years in college

What can you infer from this graph?

• Since the 1870's, the percent of household income from the wife has increased to between 2-5%

• Since 2007, the percent of household income from the wife has increased to between 20-35%

• Since the 1990's, women's percent contribution to the household has decreased by 20-35%

• Since the 1970's, the percent of household income from the wife has increased to between 20-35%