Question

A theory states that increasing a person's formal higher education results in an increased earnings over the individual's lifetime. In this theory, "higher education" is the?

Answer 1

Independent variable

Step-by-step explanation:

it can easily understand through this equation

earnings = α ( higher education)

Above equation shows earning is dependent on one thing which is higher education, so in this theory earning is dependent whereas formal higher education not depend on any variable in this theory.

Independent variable means variable which not change due to change in other variable.