These outcomes are the experiment’s dependent variables.

这些结果是实验的因变量。

Our dependent variables are the volume of employment and the national income (or national dividend) measured in wage-units.

我们的因变量是就业量和单位衡量的收入（或）。

But you can also have variables that you believe are affected by changes in your independent variable; these are your dependent variables.

但是您也可拥有您认为受自变量变化影响的变量；这些是你的因变量。

So we have one independent variable – receiving the voucher or not – and a bunch of possible dependent variables, like earnings, education, and health outcomes.

所我们有一个自变量——是否收到代金券——及一堆可能的因变量，比如收入、教育和健康结果。

To begin with, it may be useful to make clear which elements in the economic system we usually take as given, which are the independent variables of our system and which are the dependent variables.

首先，弄清楚我们通常认为经济系统中的哪些要素是给定的，哪些是我们系统的自变量，哪些是因变量可能是有用的。