Which of the Following Statements Is Not Correct

question 478

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is not correct?

• A)The percentage of the population that suffers from long-term poverty is far smaller than the percentage of the population that suffers from short-term poverty because there is a high level of economic mobility in the United States.
• B)Permanent income is a better measure of a family's ability to buy the necessities of life than is transitory income.
• C)The economic life cycle theory explains why gifts of goods and services reduce poverty for the very young and the very old.
• D)Because people can borrow and save to smooth out changes in income, their standard of living in any one year depends more on lifetime income than on a particular year's income.

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Definitions:

Convex Preferences

A concept in consumer theory indicating that a consumer prefers average bundles of goods over extreme bundles, leading to smoother, convex indifference curves.

Strictly Convex

A term often used in mathematics and economics to describe a curve or function that curves away from the origin more sharply than a straight line, indicating increasing marginal effects.

Perfect Substitutes

Perfect substitutes are products or services that can be used in exactly the same way, offering the same utility to consumers, thus one can replace the other without loss of value or function.

Homothetic Preferences

Consumer preferences that are consistent or proportionate across different scales or levels of consumption, indicating a straight line through the origin in a utility function graph.