The U.S. BoP statistic for the year 2008 shows unilateral transfers as a debit entry. This implies:

a. more transfers are made from the U.S. to individuals abroad.

b. more transfers are made to the U.S. from individuals abroad.

c. U.S. investors have earned a higher rate of return on foreign assets.

d. U.S. companies have invested in large number of foreign stocks.

e. the U.S. government has bought back some Treasury bonds.

Females, on average, are shorter and weigh less than males. One of your friends, who is a pre-med student, tells you that in addition, females will weigh less for a given height. To test this hypothesis, you collect height and weight of 29 female and 81 male students at your university. A regression of the weight on a constant, height, and a binary variable, which takes a value of one for females and is zero otherwise, yields the following result: Studentw = -229.21 – 6.36 × Female + 5.58 × Height , R 2 =0.50, SER = 20.99 where Studentw is weight measured in pounds and Height is measured in inches. (a) Interpret the results. Does it make sense to have a negative intercept? (b) You decide that in order to give an interpretation to the intercept you should rescale the height variable. One possibility is to subtract 5 ft. or 60 inches from your Height, because the minimum height in your data set is 62 inches. The resulting new intercept is now 105.58. Can you interpret this number now? Do you thing that the regression R 2 has changed? What about the standard error of the regression? (c) You have learned that correlation does not imply causation. Although this is true mathematically, does this always apply?

1. What is the response rate of an online survey sent to 650 email recipients, where 100 email addresses were ineligible, 400 recipients responded to the survey, and 150 refused to participate? (Show all your work)

2.  A department store manager believes that at least half of the households in a test market city contain at least one adult who has visited the store since the new layout was introduced. To conduct online surveys, a researcher working with this manager has purchased access to a 1,100 online panel with members located in the target area. The researcher asked the following question to the contacted respondent "Has any adult in this household visit XYZ department store in the previous month?". Here are the final results of the online panel surveys.

Completed surveys 426

Refusals 260

No Contact 0

Ineligible surveys 292

Nonworking emails 122

What is the response rate with eligibility requirements? Show all your work.

3. Knowing that you need a sample pool of 1019 students to ultimately get about 500 students in your sample, you are in a position to draw a systematic sample from the student directory at your university. Further, 9,500 students are listed in the directory. What is the sampling interval? Interpret your results. Show all your work

Most analysts think that the US$ was overvalued in the 1990s and 2000s. This is certainly suggested by the persistent trade deficits run between the US and the rest of the world. What accounts for the persistent high value of the US$? What impact does the high value have on GDP and inflation in the US?

The US President Donald Trump and his advisors have repeatedly said that they intended to get rid of the US trade deficit.

Question 01: As of April 8th 2018, list the goods and the countries for which the US has decided to create new tariffs. For these goods, what are the amounts currently imported by the US? (Words 250)

Question 02: List the US goods for which China has decided to create new tariffs. For these goods, what are the amounts currently imported by China? (Words 200)

Question 03: Assume that the new tariffs will decrease both US exports to China and Chinese exports to the US by 30% (only for the targeted goods). Building on your answer on questions 1 to 4, what would be the impact of the new tariffs on the US-China trade deficit? Support your answer with numbers (Words 200)

Economy Laundry Company had the following transactions in August:

Aug. 1 Issued capital stock for cash, $ 150,000.

3 Borrowed $ 40,000 from the bank on a note.

4 Purchased cleaning equipment for $ 25,000 cash.

6 Performed services for customers who promised to pay later, $ 16,000.

7 Paid this month’s rent on a building, $ 2,800.

10 Collections were made for the services performed on August 6, $ 3,200.

14 Supplies were purchased on account for use this month, $ 3,000.

17 A bill for $ 400 was received for utilities for this month.

25 Laundry services were performed for customers who paid immediately, $ 22,000.

31 Paid cash dividend, $ 2,000.

Required:

Prepare journal entries for these transactions.

The CEO of a large manufacturing company is curious if there is a difference in productivity level of her warehouse employees based on the region of the country the warehouse is located. She randomly selects 35 employees who work in warehouses on the East Coast (Group 1) and 35 employees who work in warehouses in the Midwest (Group 2) and records the number of parts shipped out from each for a week. She finds that East Coast group ships an average of 1299 parts and knows the population standard deviation to be 350. The Midwest group ships an average of 1456 parts and knows the population standard deviation to be 297.

Using a 0.01 level of significance, test if there is a difference in productivity level. What is the p-value? (Round to four decimal places) p-value =   

Write 3 paragraphs for reflection and should be do the following:

1. In first paragraph, Summarize the article (attached below). (Don't plagiarism from article. Please use your own words to summarize article below)
2. In second paragraph, Connect the article with one of those
"culture is an integrated system" or "cultural anthropology" or "how environment can shape cultural adaptations" or "Ethnography" or "Cultural universals". Be specific about the connections you make.
3. In third paragraph, Include your own reflection on what you’ve read/learned. What do you think about it?

Article Here: "Changing Misconceptions About African Bushmen"
The Bushmen are an indigenous people in the southern part of Africa. There are more than 100,000 living in the countries of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola. They have been living on this land for tens of thousands of years, where they continue to practice their hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They are known to have genetic ties to the earliest humans. However, because of misconceptions about African bushmen and their way of life, they have become targets of prejudice and mistreatment throughout the past several decades. Due to these misconceptions, the Bushmen were evicted from their land by the government of Botswana due to the discovery of diamonds in their homeland. Their battle for freedom has been long and arduous, and these misconceptions must be reversed in order for the Bushmen to move out of poverty and into a more free existence. The Borgen Project spoke to Jonathan Mazower, the communications director at Survival International, an organization that has been working with the Bushmen since the 1970s. When the government of Botswana began to evict the Bushmen from their land in the 1990s, Survival was able to step in and help. Mazower explained how Survival enabled “Bushman spokespeople to travel abroad to speak out about the violation of their rights, launching tourism and diamonds boycotts, lobbying bodies such as the U.N. and the EU.”

Bushmen Win Legal Rights to Their Land in Key Court Decision

The Bushmen’s case was taken to court in 2004. Against all odds, the Bushmen won. Mazower explained, “The judges ruled that the government had illegally and unconstitutionally evicted the Bushmen from their ancestral land and that they had the right to return to their homes and to hunt the game animals on which they rely for a livelihood. It was the first time that an African court recognized the concept of ‘native title.’ Since then, and despite government obstacles and intransigence, many Bushmen have returned to their homes in the reserve.” In 2006, the Bushmen began returning home, a landmark decision in terms of African legal systems that took place after years of campaigning and lobbying. Mazower spoke to this work: “Survival’s campaign has changed minds and attitudes by challenging deep-seated prejudice against the Bushmen and their hunter-gatherer way of life, and enabled their voice to be heard within Botswana and abroad. The media and society generally in Botswana held the Bushmen in contempt, influenced by the government’s racist attitude to hunter-gatherers. There has been a sea change in public opinion in Botswana which is now much more supportive of the Bushmen and critical of the government’s treatment of them.” After the initial ruling, with the help of Survival, the Bushmen won a second case regarding water rights on their land as well as a successful removal of the De Beers mining company from their land. A final discovery was made by Survival International, revealing that many Bushmen had been tortured and abused by wildlife scouts in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Once this information was out, support for the Bushmen continued to increase in southern Africa.

How Misconceptions About African Bushmen Harm Their Society

Even though the Bushmen have regained much of their freedom, there are still misconceptions surrounding bogging them down. Mazower detailed some of these: “Misconceptions, prejudice and racism led many to believe that the Bushmen and their communal way of life based on hunting, gathering and sharing are ‘backwards’ and ‘primitive.’ The government used this to justify the evictions and to force its ideas of development on them.” The Botswana government attempted to modernize these people under the misconception that they are primitive and ancient, but this modernization destroyed their spirits and ruined their way of life. Mazower spoke to this cultural destruction: “People who were once free and self-sufficient, living meaningful lives of their choosing on their land, turned to alcohol and became bored and depressed. They are now exposed to diseases like TB and AIDS which were virtually unknown before.” An article on the Survival International website discusses how progress can kill. The article states, “Forcing ‘development’ or ‘progress’ on tribal people does not make them happier or healthier. In fact, the effects are disastrous. The most important factor by far for tribal peoples’ well-being is whether their land rights are respected.” Common misconceptions about African bushmen and other indigenous peoples are the reason why development or progress is forced. The question becomes: how can misconceptions about African bushmen be reversed in order to help them be culturally independent? Mazower says, “By showing people what the Bushmen have to teach us. They are extraordinarily resilient, and are the best conservationists. They have looked after the fauna and flora for millennia, and have immense botanical and zoological knowledge which benefits us all… They can also show us how to live together as a community based on sharing and reciprocity–they are a great example of egalitarianism, where wealth is not measured in possessions but rather what you give away and share. They put the community before the individual, share and exchange possessions rather than amass personal wealth and embrace gender equality.” This is how misconceptions about indigenous people like the Bushmen can change: by showing the world their true nature and how it can learn from them rather than the other way around. Mazower closed the interview on this thought: “Survival’s work is rooted in showing that the Bushmen, like all tribal peoples, are contemporary peoples and are a vital part of human diversity. Tribal peoples who control their own land are healthier with a far better quality of life than tribes who’ve been evicted from their lands and had ‘development’ forced on them.”