Lesson test: The standard of living

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The standard of living

1.[2p]
Money wages in a district rise 50 per cent while the cost of living rises 40 per cent. By what percentage do real wages rise?

CorrectNot quite: 7.1

2.[1p]
British real wages rose between about 1790 and 1810, while money wages rose 40 per cent and the cost of living 70 per cent.

True

The answer is: False

False

Correct

3.[3p]
What did Charles Feinstein's 1998 revision find about British real earnings?

A rise of about 30 per cent between 1780 and 1850, with almost nothing before 1820

Correct

A doubling between 1820 and 1850

The answer is: A rise of about 30 per cent between 1780 and 1850, with almost nothing before 1820

No improvement at all before 1900

The answer is: A rise of about 30 per cent between 1780 and 1850, with almost nothing before 1820

A fall across the whole period from 1780 to 1850

The answer is: A rise of about 30 per cent between 1780 and 1850, with almost nothing before 1820

4.[3p]
Which of these genuinely make a real wage series hard to build for this period?

Select all that apply

The answer depends heavily on how the price index weights bread against other goods

Correct

Daily wage rates say nothing about how many days were actually worked

Correct

Enclosure removed income in kind that never passed through a market

Correct

Money wages were not written down anywhere before 1850

The answer is: The answer depends heavily on how the price index weights bread against other goods, Daily wage rates say nothing about how many days were actually worked, Enclosure removed income in kind that never passed through a market

5.[3p]
Output per worker rises 46 per cent while the real wage rises 12 per cent. By what percentage does labour's share of output fall?

CorrectNot quite: 23.3

6.[2p]
Whose 1998 article, titled Pessimism Perpetuated, revised the real wage series?

CorrectNot quite: Feinstein

7.[2p]
In a population where half of all deaths are of infants aged 1 and half of adults aged 60, what is the average age at death?

CorrectNot quite: 30.5

8.[3p]
Why is Chadwick's "average age at death" of 17 for Manchester labourers not a lifespan?

It is dominated by infant deaths and by the young age structure of a town full of migrants

Correct

It was calculated only from workhouse records

The answer is: It is dominated by infant deaths and by the young age structure of a town full of migrants

It excluded anyone who died of an industrial accident

The answer is: It is dominated by infant deaths and by the young age structure of a town full of migrants

It counted only men

The answer is: It is dominated by infant deaths and by the young age structure of a town full of migrants

9.[3p]
Match each kind of evidence to what it actually measures.

Real wages
Adult heights
Average age at death
Life tables

the risk of dying at each age separately
nutrition and disease during the years of growth
mostly infant mortality and the age structure of the population
the purchasing power of an hour of work

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Real wages: the purchasing power of an hour of work Adult heights: nutrition and disease during the years of growth Average age at death: mostly infant mortality and the age structure of the population Life tables: the risk of dying at each age separately

1.[2p] Money wages in a district rise 50 per cent while the cost of living rises 40 per cent. By what percentage do real wages rise?

2.[1p] British real wages rose between about 1790 and 1810, while money wages rose 40 per cent and the cost of living 70 per cent.

3.[3p] What did Charles Feinstein's 1998 revision find about British real earnings?

4.[3p] Which of these genuinely make a real wage series hard to build for this period?

5.[3p] Output per worker rises 46 per cent while the real wage rises 12 per cent. By what percentage does labour's share of output fall?

6.[2p] Whose 1998 article, titled Pessimism Perpetuated, revised the real wage series?

7.[2p] In a population where half of all deaths are of infants aged 1 and half of adults aged 60, what is the average age at death?

8.[3p] Why is Chadwick's "average age at death" of 17 for Manchester labourers not a lifespan?

9.[3p] Match each kind of evidence to what it actually measures.

1.[2p]
Money wages in a district rise 50 per cent while the cost of living rises 40 per cent. By what percentage do real wages rise?

2.[1p]
British real wages rose between about 1790 and 1810, while money wages rose 40 per cent and the cost of living 70 per cent.

3.[3p]
What did Charles Feinstein's 1998 revision find about British real earnings?

4.[3p]
Which of these genuinely make a real wage series hard to build for this period?

5.[3p]
Output per worker rises 46 per cent while the real wage rises 12 per cent. By what percentage does labour's share of output fall?

6.[2p]
Whose 1998 article, titled Pessimism Perpetuated, revised the real wage series?

7.[2p]
In a population where half of all deaths are of infants aged 1 and half of adults aged 60, what is the average age at death?

8.[3p]
Why is Chadwick's "average age at death" of 17 for Manchester labourers not a lifespan?

9.[3p]
Match each kind of evidence to what it actually measures.