In "The Ties That Bind Are Fraying," McPherson and His

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Multiple Choice

In "The Ties That Bind Are Fraying," McPherson and his colleagues found that, among men and women,

• A) women's strongest social ties are with those in their neighborhood.
• B) job-related stress and money worries are the main contributors to divorce for women, whereas for men it is unhappiness about sex.
• C) their lives have become increasingly intertwined, in terms of a person's closest confidant.
• D) there is no difference in their use of social media, but women use it more to communicate with people they know, while men use it to communicate with strangers.

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Definitions:

Economic Rent

The excess payment made to or income received by a factor of production over what would be needed to keep that factor in its current use.

Wage Rates

The standard amount of compensation individuals receive in exchange for their labor, usually expressed per hour or year.

Productivity

The measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.

MRP Curves

Marginal Revenue Product curves, which depict the additional revenue generated by employing one more unit of a resource, such as labor or capital.