ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The income effect is a change in the demand for a good or service due to a change in a consumer’s purchasing power, which is, in turn, due to a change in their real income. It’s part of consumer choice economic theory that relates to how wealthy consumers feel.

Detailed explanation-2: -The income effect, in microeconomics, is the resultant change in demand for a good or service caused by an increase or decrease in a consumer’s purchasing power or real income. As one’s income grows, the income effect predicts that people will begin to demand more (and vice-versa).

Detailed explanation-3: -When the price of a good changes, the price of that good relative to the price of other goods also changes. Relative price changes cause consumers to substitute from one good to another-this is known as the substitution effect.

Detailed explanation-4: -Goods where demand declines as income rises (or conversely, where the demand rises as income falls) are called “inferior goods.” An inferior good occurs when people trim back on a good as income rises, because they can now afford the more expensive choices that they prefer.

Detailed explanation-5: -The income effect states that when the price of a good decreases, it is as if the buyer of the good’s income went up. The substitution effect states that when the price of a good decreases, consumers will substitute away from goods that are relatively more expensive to the cheaper good.