-Consider the Spence Education Game Depicted in Figure 16

Multiple Choice

-Consider the Spence Education Game depicted in Figure 16.4. In the figure, all payoffs are in thousands of dollars per month. Suppose there is a 30 percent of workers are low- productivity (LP) workers and 70 percent are high-productivity (HP) workers. Using pre- employment testing, the firm decides to adopt a separating strategy by assuming that only high-productivity workers go to college and that workers who have only graduated high school are low-productivity types. What is the firm's conditional expected payoff from hiring a college graduate?

A) $4,000
B) $3,500
C) $4,450
D) $5,760
E) $6,000