At the Stock and Watson (Http://www

question 35

Essay

At the Stock and Watson (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/stock_watson)website go to Student Resources and select the option "Datasets for Replicating Empirical Results." Then select the chapter 8 CPS data set (ch8_cps.xls)into a spreadsheet program such as Excel. For the exercise, use the first 500 observations only. Using data for average hourly earnings only (ahe)and years of education (yrseduc), produce a scatterplot with earnings on the vertical axis and education level on the horizontal axis. What kind of relationship does the scatterplot suggest? Confirm your impression by adding a linear trendline. Find the correlation coefficient between the two and interpret it.

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Investment Option

A financial vehicle or asset that individuals can allocate capital towards with the expectation of a future return.

Return

The profit or loss derived from an investment or transaction.

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A type of bond issued by corporations to fund capital investments and operations, promising to pay back with interest.

Yield

The income return on an investment, such as the interest or dividends received from holding a particular security.