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Appendix 175<br />

Figure 12<br />

Income Effect Summary<br />

Concurrent Risk<br />

Prediction<br />

Prospective Risk<br />

Prediction<br />

Family Income<br />

Category<br />

n<br />

Average<br />

Income<br />

Effect n<br />

Average<br />

Income<br />

Effect<br />

1 POOR/NEGATIVE 18,441 18% 9,326 28%<br />

2 NEAR POOR 5,638 6% 2,939 11%<br />

3 LOW INCOME 14,825 3% 7,472 1%<br />

4 MIDDLE INCOME 24,874 -6% 12,503 -12%<br />

5 HIGH INCOME 24,171 -11% 12,489 -12%<br />

Total 87,949 44,729<br />

Mean 0% 0%<br />

Income Effect Differential<br />

Poor vs. High 28% 40%<br />

Low vs. High 13% 14%<br />

Low&Middle Combined vs. High 8% 6%<br />

Although there is some question <strong>of</strong> whether high income people are different than middle<br />

income people when risk is adjusted on a prospective basis, overall there appears to be statistically<br />

significant income effects. The next question is whether these effects have potential business<br />

significance. The first step is calculating the business effect. This is done by combining the distributions<br />

from Figure 5 with the respective average income effects (in bold) from Figure 7.<br />

The resulting business effect estimates are:

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