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PIH

PIH is the initialism of permanent income hypothesis.

PIH is the initialism of pregnancy-induced hypertension.

PIH is the initialism of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.

Meaning of permanent income hypothesis

Proper noun

the permanent income hypothesis

  1. A theory attempting to describe how agents spread consumption over their lifetimes, supposing that a person's consumption at a point in time is determined not just by their current income but also by their expected income in future years, which is seen as the driver of change.
    Synonyms:
    PIH

Forms of PIH

pluralPIHs

Questions about PIH

What is PIH the initialism of?
PIH is the initialism of permanent income hypothesis.

Words near PIH in the dictionary

  1. pigweeds
  2. pigwidgeon
  3. pigwidgeons
  4. pigyard
  5. pigyards
  6. PIH
  7. piha
  8. Pihach
  9. pihas
  10. Pihl
  11. Pihls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PIH (page history and authors); permanent income hypothesis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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