Sentences with phrase «standard economic assumption»

We began our study by making the standard economic assumption that a woman's decision to teach is influenced in part by her expected pay within teaching and her expected pay in other occupations.

The results of such calculations, using standard economic assumptions and actuarial survivor probabilities, are shown in Figure 1, where we plot the growth of pension wealth over the career cycle for a typical educator in Missouri under three different promotion scenarios, in 2012 dollars.

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Given two assumptions, standard in economic theory, the judgment that individual selfishness promotes the common good should work.

It is here that the assumptions of standard economic teaching come into play.

The assumption (and that is all it is) that «The only real impact it would have is to limit the growth of our standard of living» is not justified, and allmost certainly false if high end projections of temperature increase by the end of this century are realized (or if high end projections of economic impacts are realized with central estimates of temperature increase).