Use 1 point for degenerate income distributions #1115
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This PR modifies the engines for transitory and permanent income shocks so that if the distribution is degenerate (
sigma == 0.0
) they use only one point to approximate it. This is useful, for instance, in retirement.Currently, with
TranShkCount
andPermShkCount
being constant, multiple points are being used even ifsigma==0.0
. This behavior was probably my own making, in my recent updates.