Deck 14: Policy Analysis

Question 1

Policies often look different on the ground than they do on paper to gain a better understanding of the true implications of a policy analysts look to the policy's ____________.

A) De facto design details
B) Implementation outcomes
C) The paper policy just requires more detailed study
D) Efficiency outcomes

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of an unintended consequence of a policy?

A) When a woman's role in family decision making triggers domestic violence
B) Increase sense of security/ decrease in vulnerability
C) Increased school attendance
D) Increased woman's role in family decision making

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The intended social benefits that motivate policymakers to expend resources on the policy are a policy's__________.

A) Marginal Benefit
B) Private social benefit
C) Objectives
D) Economic surplus

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Some policies only achieve their objectives indirectly through spillover effects for example:

A) A program provides loans to small business in the hopes that increased labor demand will increase wages for unskilled labor
B) Agricultural research and extension programs who aim to increase the well-being of adopting famers
C) A resulting increase in food prices from a policy mean some poor become worse off as a result of the policy
D) When a cash transfer program increases some incomes of the non-poor.

Question 5

When spillover effects are worked out in _______,they are only likely to be significant if the program is __________ relative to the market

A) Private institutions; large
B) Private institutions; small
C) Markets; small
D) Markets; large

Question 6

What is meant by the governance structure of a policy?

A) Involves identifying the decision makers and manager of a policy
B) Is only relevant in the case of a public good
C) Includes program eligibility requirements
D) Includes the nature of all regulations imposed on the benefits from a policy

Question 7

When policies seek to achieve their objectives by channeling benefits to their target groups,it can be susceptible to two types of targeting failures,____________ and __________.

A) Over-coverage of the target group,; under-coverage to unintended groups
B) Leakages to the target group; under-coverage of the non-target group
C) Leakages to non-target groups; non-coverage of the target group
D) Externalities; feedback effects

Question 8

Sometimes feedback effects can alter the intended outcomes of a policy,for example: In response to a policy that _______ the price of rice a farmer may see profits _______ however as more famers demand more labor profit will decrease as wages for unskilled labor __________.

A) Increases; increase; increases
B) Increases; decrease; decrease
C) Decreases; increase; increase
D) Decreases; decrease; decrease

Question 9

A policy's objectives include_________.

A) Setting the target group
B) Social costs
C) Typically involves improving the well-being for society as w whole
D) Spillover and feedback effects

Question 10

The social cost of a policy includes_________.

A) The currency value of any resources used in policy implementation
B) Any deterioration of well-being as a result of a policy
C) Explicit costs to the user form the policy
D) Negative externalities and does not include changes to the directly affected

Question 11

All of the changes in living conditions experienced by anyone in society as a result of a policies introduction are called__________.

A) Social benefit
B) Impacts
C) Social costs
D) Policy value

Question 12

Policymakers are interested in the effects on the behavior,or choices,of those directly affected because________.

A) It can encourage socially desirable behavior
B) The behavioral responses may crowd out private market activities
C) It can create spillover and feedback affects
D) All of the above are reasons policymaker care about the behavior of those directly affected by the policy

Question 13

A policy can include all of the following except?

A) Taxes on imports
B) Projects to build wells for drinking water
C) Creation of a microfinance institution
D) All of the above are potential policies

Question 14

Some policies seek to regulate behavior,however many target individual may fail to change their behavior because___________ or ______________.

A) Poor monitoring or small penalties; they would have made the same choices with or without the policy.
B) Strong monitoring and large penalties; the policy is underfunded
C) Distance to the regulator; strong disincentives
D) Externalities distort the market; feedback effects

Question 15

Which of the following effects from a policy would be considered a spillover effect?

A) After a famer adopts a new technology food supply increases,which lowers the price he charges for selling his crop
B) A farmer adopts a new technology and enjoys better profits
C) Any effect on the well-being of groups other than the directly affected
D) All of the above are spillover effects

Question 16

The budgetary cost of a policy includes_________.

A) The currency value of any resources used in policy implementation
B) The currency value of any resources used in policy implementation,less any fees or taxes collected
C) The social costs from a policy
D) Spillover and feedback effects

Question 17

How do policy analysts encourage and support good policy choices?

A) By illuminating the benefits and costs that are likely to emerge from any policy
B) By correctly predicting the best policy outcomes
C) By keeping costs as low as possible
D) By explaining only the most basic elements of a policy and ignoring any future changes in design to keep things simple and easy to understand

Question 18

Policymakers often find it useful to divide their research results in one of the following categories except:

A) A detailed policy description including implementation plan
B) Discuss the nature and size of the benefits,both direct and indirect
C) Describe the nature and size of the costs,both direct and indirect
D) Describe the long-run plan to achieve sustainability

Question 19

Which of the following effects from a policy would be considered a feedback effect?

A) After a famer adopts a new technology food supply increases,which lowers the price he charges for selling his crop
B) A farmer adopts a new technology and enjoys better profits
C) Any effect on the well-being of groups other than the directly affected
D) All of the above are feedback effects

Question 20

A policy's direct effect includes___________.

A) The effects of a policy on third parties
B) Changes in market prices resulting from a policy
C) Changes in behavior in people directly affected by policy
D) Includes all of the effects from a policy including the spillovers

Question 21

What are the fundamental objectives in policy analysis?

Question 22

What are the seven questions policy maker use to guide a poly analyst through comprehensive study of a policy's benefits and costs?