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Suppose Fred's wage-schooling relationship is given by
| Years of Schooling | Earnings |
| 9 | $28,000 |
| 10 | $31,150 |
| 11 | $33,700 |
| 12 | $35,900 |
| 13 | $37,400 |
| 14 | $38,500 |
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- John is a talented artist who received an offer to go pro gymnast. He graduated fr V the business school of Talent University with a 4.0 GPA and scored 826 on his MCAT. Having all the needed skills, John is considering a career in any of the following tracks. John collected information related to potential income and cost for his options. Since he is considering average income, John divided his professional career into 5 periods of earning Period 0 Occupation Period 4 Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Neurosurgeon -20 15 30 Accountant 4 6. 10 12 14 Artist 3. 3. 3. Gymnast 25 10 Assume that John's discount factor d30.85. Find net present value of each career what is the NPV of the most lucrative option. 12:21 AM tScn Home F8 End PgUp F11 F9 F10 Pg Dn F12 Ins 20a. Draw the wage-schooling locus for someone for whom the returns to schooling decrease through college but increase after college. (Assume college is completed after 16 years of schooling and that one can receive at most 6 years of postcollege schooling.) b. On a new graph, plot the marginal rate of return to schooling implied by the wage-schooling locus described in part a. c. What can be said about a college graduate who faces the wage-schooling locus described in part a?A worker plans to retire at the age of 65, at which time he will start collecting his retirement benefits. Then there is a sudden change in the forecast of inflation when the worker is 63 years old. In particular, inflation is now predicted to be higher than it had been expected so that the average price level of market goods and wages is now expected to be higher. What effect does this announcement have on the person’s preferred retirement agea. If retirement benefits are fully adjusted for inflation?b. If retirement benefits are not fully adjusted for inflation?
- 3 Imagine that the wage-schooling locus is given by w(s)=s^(1/3). What will be the optimal level of education for an individual to take if next period’s earnings in any given time are worth 95% of current earnings for that individual? ---- HINT: the answer is s=20/57. I need step by step solution> Figure 1 $ of consumption per year 30000 28000 26000 24000 22000 20000 18000 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 Warren 333 0 0 200 400 600 sample indifference curves Refer to Figure 1 What is Warren's wage per hour? 1166 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 Hours of leisure per year Suppose all workers have 2000 hours to spend in work or leisure. Figure 1 displays sample indifference curves and a budget constraint corresponding to no income redistribution program for Warren.How does a higher interest rate affect the elements of schooling choice? ○ The wage-schooling curve shifts up. Wealth increases, increasing the iso-wealth curves. O Every iso-wealth curve gets steeper. O The wage-schooling curve gets steeper.
