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Introduction to Econometrics, 3e (Stock)
Chapter 6 Linear Regression with Multiple Regressors
6.1 Multiple Choice
1) In the multiple regression model, the adjusted R2, 2
A) cannot be negative.
B) will never be greater than the regression R2.
C) equals the square of the correlation coefficient r.
D) cannot decrease when an additional explanatory variable is added.
2) Under imperfect multicollinearity
A) the OLS estimator cannot be computed.
B) two or more of the regressors are highly correlated.
C) the OLS estimator is biased even in samples of n > 100.
D) the error terms are highly, but not perfectly, correlated.
3) When there are omitted variables in the regression, which are determinants of the dependent variable,
then
A) you cannot measure the effect of the omitted variable, but the estimator of your included variable(s) is
(are) unaffected.
B) this has no effect on the estimator of your included variable because the other variable is not included.
C) this will always bias the OLS estimator of the included variable.
D) the OLS estimator is biased if the omitted variable is correlated with the included variable.
4) Imagine you regressed earnings of individuals on a constant, a binary variable ("Male") which takes on
the value 1 for males and is 0 otherwise, and another binary variable ("Female") which takes on the value 1
for females and is 0 otherwise. Because females typically earn less than males, you would expect
A) the coefficient for Male to have a positive sign, and for Female a negative sign.
B) both coefficients to be the same distance from the constant, one above and the other below.
C) none of the OLS estimators to exist because there is perfect multicollinearity.
D) this to yield a difference in means statistic.
5) When you have an omitted variable problem, the assumption that E(ui Xi) = 0 is violated. This implies
that
A) the sum of the residuals is no longer zero.
B) there is another estimator called weighted least squares, which is BLUE.
C) the sum of the residuals times any of the explanatory variables is no longer zero.
D) the OLS estimator is no longer consistent.
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6) If you had a two regressor regression model, then omitting one variable which is relevant
A) will have no effect on the coefficient of the included variable if the correlation between the excluded
and the included variable is negative.
B) will always bias the coefficient of the included variable upwards.
C) can result in a negative value for the coefficient of the included variable, even though the coefficient
will have a significant positive effect on Y if the omitted variable were included.
D) makes the sum of the product between the included variable and the residuals different from 0.
7) (Requires Calculus) In the multiple regression model you estimate the effect on Yi of a unit change in
one of the Xi while holding all other regressors constant. This
A) makes little sense, because in the real world all other variables change.
B) corresponds to the economic principle of mutatis mutandis.
C) leaves the formula for the coefficient in the single explanatory variable case unaffected.
D) corresponds to taking a partial derivative in mathematics.
8) You have to worry about perfect multicollinearity in the multiple regression model because
A) many economic variables are perfectly correlated.
B) the OLS estimator is no longer BLUE.
C) the OLS estimator cannot be computed in this situation.
D) in real life, economic variables change together all the time.
9) In a two regressor regression model, if you exclude one of the relevant variables then
A) it is no longer reasonable to assume that the errors are homoskedastic.
B) OLS is no longer unbiased, but still consistent.
C) you are no longer controlling for the influence of the other variable.
D) the OLS estimator no longer exists.
10) The intercept in the multiple regression model
A) should be excluded if one explanatory variable has negative values.
B) determines the height of the regression line.
C) should be excluded because the population regression function does not go through the origin.
D) is statistically significant if it is larger than 1.96.
11) In the multiple regression model, the least squares estimator is derived by
A) minimizing the sum of squared prediction mistakes.
B) setting the sum of squared errors equal to zero.
C) minimizing the absolute difference of the residuals.
D) forcing the smallest distance between the actual and fitted values.
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12) The sample regression line estimated by OLS
A) has an intercept that is equal to zero.
B) is the same as the population regression line.
C) cannot have negative and positive slopes.
D) is the line that minimizes the sum of squared prediction mistakes.
13) The OLS residuals in the multiple regression model
A) cannot be calculated because there is more than one explanatory variable.
B) can be calculated by subtracting the fitted values from the actual values.
C) are zero because the predicted values are another name for forecasted values.
D) are typically the same as the population regression function errors.
14) Under the least squares assumptions for the multiple regression problem (zero conditional mean for
the error term, all Xi and Yi being i.i.d., all Xi and ui having finite fourth moments, no perfect
multicollinearity), the OLS estimators for the slopes and intercept
A) have an exact normal distribution for n > 25.
B) are BLUE.
C) have a normal distribution in small samples as long as the errors are homoskedastic.
D) are unbiased and consistent.
15) The main advantage of using multiple regression analysis over differences in means testing is that the
regression technique
A) allows you to calculate p-values for the significance of your results.
B) provides you with a measure of your goodness of fit.
C) gives you quantitative estimates of a unit change in X.
D) assumes that the error terms are generated from a normal distribution.
16) In a multiple regression framework, the slope coefficient on the regressor X2i
A) takes into account the scale of the error term.
B) is measured in the units of Yi divided by units of X2i.
C) is usually positive.
D) is larger than the coefficient on X1i.
17) One of the least squares assumptions in the multiple regression model is that you have random
variables which are "i.i.d." This stands for
A) initially indeterminate differences.
B) irregularly integrated dichotomies.
C) identically initiated deltas (as in changes).
D) independently and identically distributed.
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18) Omitted variable bias
A) will always be present as long as the regression R2 < 1.
B) is always there but is negligible in almost all economic examples.
C) exists if the omitted variable is correlated with the included regressor but is not a determinant of the
dependent variable.
D) exists if the omitted variable is correlated with the included regressor and is a determinant of the
dependent variable.
19) The following OLS assumption is most likely violated by omitted variables bias:
A) E(ui Xi) = 0
B) (Xi, Yi) i=1,..., n are i.i.d draws from their joint distribution
C) there are no outliers for Xi, ui
D) there is heteroskedasticity
20) The population multiple regression model when there are two regressors, X1i and X2i can be written
as follows, with the exception of:
A) Yi = β0 + β1X1i + β2X2i + ui, i = 1,..., n
B) Yi = β0X0i + β1X1i + β2X2i + ui, X0i = 1, i = 1,..., n
C) Yi =
2
0
j
j
=
Xji + ui, i = 1,..., n
D) Yi = β0 + β1X1i + β2X2i + ... + βkXki + ui, i = 1,..., n
21) In the multiple regression model Yi = β0 + β1X1i+ β2 X2i + ... + βkXki + ui, i = 1,..., n, the OLS
estimators are obtained by minimizing the sum of
A) squared mistakes in
( )
2
0 1 1
1
n
i i k ki
i
Y b b X b X
=
− − − −
B) squared mistakes in
( )
2
0 1 1
1
n
i i k ki i
i
Y b b X b X u
=
− − − −
C) absolute mistakes in
( )
0 1 1
1
n
i i k ki
i
Y b b X b X
=
− −
D) squared mistakes in
( )
2
01
1
n
ii
i
Y b b X
=
−−
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22) In the multiple regression model, the SER is given by
A)
1
1ˆ
2
n
i
i
u
n=
B)
C)
1
1ˆ
2
n
i
i
u
nk =
−−
D)
2
1
1ˆ
2
n
i
i
u
nk =
−−
23) In multiple regression, the R2 increases whenever a regressor is
A) added unless the coefficient on the added regressor is exactly zero.
B) added.
C) added unless there is heterosckedasticity.
D) greater than 1.96 in absolute value.
24) The adjusted R2, or , is given by
A)
2
1
1
n SSR
n k TSS
−−
B)
2
1
1
n ESS
n k TSS
−−
C)
1
1
1
n SSR
n k TSS
−−
D)
ESS
TSS
25) Consider the following multiple regression models (a) to (d) below. DFemme = 1 if the individual is a
female, and is zero otherwise; DMale is a binary variable which takes on the value one if the individual is
male, and is zero otherwise; DMarried is a binary variable which is unity for married individuals and is
zero otherwise, and DSingle is (1-DMarried). Regressing weekly earnings (Earn) on a set of explanatory
variables, you will experience perfect multicollinearity in the following cases unless:
A) i = + DFemme + Dmale +X3i
B) i = + DMarried + DSingle + X3i
C) i = + DFemme + X3i
D) i = DFemme + Dmale + DMarried + DSingle + X3i
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26) Consider the multiple regression model with two regressors X1 and X2, where both variables are
determinants of the dependent variable. When omitting X2 from the regression, then there will be omitted
variable bias for
A) if X1 and X2 are correlated
B) always
C) if X2 is measured in percentages
D) if X2 is a dummy variable
27) The dummy variable trap is an example of
A) imperfect multicollinearity
B) something that is of theoretical interest only
C) perfect multicollinearity
D) something that does not happen to university or college students
28) Imperfect multicollinearity
A) is not relevant to the field of economics and business administration
B) only occurs in the study of finance
C) means that the least squares estimator of the slope is biased
D) means that two or more of the regressors are highly correlated
29) Consider the multiple regression model with two regressors X1 and X2, where both variables are
determinants of the dependent variable. You first regress Y on X1 only and find no relationship. However
when regressing Y on X1 and X2, the slope coefficient changes by a large amount. This suggests that
your first regression suffers from
A) heteroskedasticity
B) perfect multicollinearity
C) omitted variable bias
D) dummy variable trap
30) Imperfect multicollinearity
A) implies that it will be difficult to estimate precisely one or more of the partial effects using the data at
hand
B) violates one of the four Least Squares assumptions in the multiple regression model
C) means that you cannot estimate the effect of at least one of the Xs on Y
D) suggests that a standard spreadsheet program does not have enough power to estimate the multiple
regression model
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6.2 Essays and Longer Questions
1) Females, on average, are shorter and weigh less than males. One of your friends, who is a pre-med
student, tells you that in addition, females will weigh less for a given height. To test this hypothesis, you
collect height and weight of 29 female and 81 male students at your university. A regression of the weight
on a constant, height, and a binary variable, which takes a value of one for females and is zero otherwise,
yields the following result:
= -229.21 6.36 × Female + 5.58 × Height, =0.50, SER = 20.99
where Studentw is weight measured in pounds and Height is measured in inches.
(a) Interpret the results. Does it make sense to have a negative intercept?
(b) You decide that in order to give an interpretation to the intercept you should rescale the height
variable. One possibility is to subtract 5 ft. or 60 inches from your Height, because the minimum height in
your data set is 62 inches. The resulting new intercept is now 105.58. Can you interpret this number now?
Do you thing that the regression has changed? What about the standard error of the regression?
(c) You have learned that correlation does not imply causation. Although this is true mathematically,
does this always apply?
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2) The cost of attending your college has once again gone up. Although you have been told that education
is investment in human capital, which carries a return of roughly 10% a year, you (and your parents) are
not pleased. One of the administrators at your university/college does not make the situation better by
telling you that you pay more because the reputation of your institution is better than that of others. To
investigate this hypothesis, you collect data randomly for 100 national universities and liberal arts
colleges from the 2000-2001 U.S. News and World Report annual rankings. Next you perform the following
regression
= 7,311.17 + 3,985.20 × Reputation 0.20 × Size + 8,406.79 × Dpriv 416.38 × Dlibart 2,376.51 ×
Dreligion
R2=0.72, SER = 3,773.35
where Cost is Tuition, Fees, Room and Board in dollars, Reputation is the index used in U.S. News and
World Report (based on a survey of university presidents and chief academic officers), which ranges from
1 ("marginal") to 5 ("distinguished"), Size is the number of undergraduate students, and Dpriv, Dlibart,
and Dreligion are binary variables indicating whether the institution is private, a liberal arts college, and
has a religious affiliation.
(a) Interpret the results. Do the coefficients have the expected sign?
(b) What is the forecasted cost for a liberal arts college, which has no religious affiliation, a size of 1,500
students and a reputation level of 4.5? (All liberal arts colleges are private.)
(c) To save money, you are willing to switch from a private university to a public university, which has a
ranking of 0.5 less and 10,000 more students. What is the effect on your cost? Is it substantial?
(d) Eliminating the Size and Dlibart variables from your regression, the estimation regression becomes
= 5,450.35 + 3,538.84 × Reputation + 10,935.70 × Dpriv 2,783.31 × Dreligion;
=0.72, SER = 3,792.68
Why do you think that the effect of attending a private institution has increased now?
(e) What can you say about causation in the above relationship? Is it possible that Cost affects Reputation
rather than the other way around?
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3) In the multiple regression model with two explanatory variables
0 1 1 2 2i i i i
Y X X u
 
= + + +
the OLS estimators for the three parameters are as follows (small letters refer to deviations from means as
in zi = Zi
Z
):
12
0 1 2
ˆ ˆ ˆ
Y X X
 
= −
2
1 2 2 1 2
1 1 1 1
12
22
1 2 1 2
1 1 1
ˆ
n n n n
i i i i i i i
i i i i
n n n
i i i i
i i i
y x x y x x x
x x x x
= = = =
= = =
=


 
 
2
2 1 1 1 2
1 1 1 1
22
22
1 2 1 2
1 1 1
ˆ
n n n n
i i i i i i i
i i i i
n n n
i i i i
i i i
y x x y x x x
x x x x
= = = =
= = =
=


 
 
You have collected data for 104 countries of the world from the Penn World Tables and want to estimate
the effect of the population growth rate (
1i
X
) and the saving rate (
2i
X
) (average investment share of GDP
from 1980 to 1990) on GDP per worker (relative to the U.S.) in 1990. The various sums needed to calculate
the OLS estimates are given below:
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1
n
i
i
Y
=
= 33.33;
1
1
n
i
i
X
=
= 2.025;
2
1
n
i
i
X
=
= 17.313
2
1
n
i
i
y
=
= 8.3103;
2
1
1
n
i
i
x
=
= .0122;
2
2
1
n
i
i
x
=
= 0.6422
1
1
n
ii
i
yx
=
= -0.2304;
2
1
n
ii
i
yx
=
= 1.5676;
12
1
n
ii
i
xx
=
= -0.0520
(a) What are your expected signs for the regression coefficient? Calculate the coefficients and see if their
signs correspond to your intuition.
(b) Find the regression , and interpret it. What other factors can you think of that might have an
influence on productivity?
4) A subsample from the Current Population Survey is taken, on weekly earnings of individuals, their
age, and their gender. You have read in the news that women make 70 cents to the $1 that men earn. To
test this hypothesis, you first regress earnings on a constant and a binary variable, which takes on a value
of 1 for females and is 0 otherwise. The results were:
= 570.70 170.72 × Female, =0.084, SER = 282.12.
(a) There are 850 females in your sample and 894 males. What are the mean earnings of males and
females in this sample? What is the percentage of average female income to male income?
(b) You decide to control for age (in years) in your regression results because older people, up to a point,
earn more on average than younger people. This regression output is as follows:
= 323.70 169.78 × Female + 5.15 × Age, =0.135, SER = 274.45.
Interpret these results carefully. How much, on average, does a 40-year-old female make per year in your
sample? What about a 20-year-old male? Does this represent stronger evidence of discrimination against
females?
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5) You have collected data from Major League Baseball (MLB) to find the determinants of winning. You
have a general idea that both good pitching and strong hitting are needed to do well. However, you do
not know how much each of these contributes separately. To investigate this problem, you collect data for
all MLB during 1999 season. Your strategy is to first regress the winning percentage on pitching quality
("Team ERA"), second to regress the same variable on some measure of hitting ("OPS On-base Plus
Slugging percentage"), and third to regress the winning percentage on both.
Summary of the Distribution of Winning Percentage, On Base plus Slugging Percentage,
and Team Earned Run Average for MLB in 1999
Average
Standard
deviation
Percentile
10%
25%
40%
50%
(median)
60%
75%
90%
Team
ERA
4.71
0.53
3.84
4.35
4.72
4.78
4.91
5.06
5.25
OPS
0.778
0.034
0.720
0.754
0.769
0.780
0.790
0.798
0.820
Winning
Percentage
0.50
0.08
0.40
0.43
0.46
0.48
0.49
0.59
0.60
The results are as follows:
= 0.94 0.100 × teamera, = 0.49, SER = 0.06.
= -0.68 + 1.513 × ops, =0.45, SER = 0.06.
= -0.19 0.099 × teamera + 1.490 × ops, =0.92, SER = 0.02.
(a) Interpret the multiple regression. What is the effect of a one point increase in team ERA? Given that
the Atlanta Braves had the most wins that year, wining 103 games out of 162, do you find this effect
important? Next analyze the importance and statistical significance for the OPS coefficient. (The
Minnesota Twins had the minimum OPS of 0.712, while the Texas Rangers had the maximum with 0.840.)
Since the intercept is negative, and since winning percentages must lie between zero and one, should you
rerun the regression through the origin?
(b) What are some of the omitted variables in your analysis? Are they likely to affect the coefficient on
Team ERA and OPS given the size of the and their potential correlation with the included variables?
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6) In the process of collecting weight and height data from 29 female and 81 male students at your
university, you also asked the students for the number of siblings they have. Although it was not quite
clear to you initially what you would use that variable for, you construct a new theory that suggests that
children who have more siblings come from poorer families and will have to share the food on the table.
Although a friend tells you that this theory does not pass the "straight-face" test, you decide to
hypothesize that peers with many siblings will weigh less, on average, for a given height. In addition,
you believe that the muscle/fat tissue composition of male bodies suggests that females will weigh less,
on average, for a given height. To test these theories, you perform the following regression:
= -229.92 6.52 × Female + 0.51 × Sibs+ 5.58 × Height, =0.50, SER = 21.08
where Studentw is in pounds, Height is in inches, Female takes a value of 1 for females and is 0 otherwise,
Sibs is the number of siblings.
Interpret the regression results.
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7) You have collected data for 104 countries to address the difficult questions of the determinants for
differences in the standard of living among the countries of the world. You recall from your
macroeconomics lectures that the neoclassical growth model suggests that output per worker (per capita
income) levels are determined by, among others, the saving rate and population growth rate. To test the
predictions of this growth model, you run the following regression:
= 0.339 12.894 × n + 1.397 × SK, =0.621, SER = 0.177
where RelPersInc is GDP per worker relative to the United States, n is the average population growth rate,
1980-1990, and SK is the average investment share of GDP from 1960 to 1990 (remember investment
equals saving).
(a) Interpret the results. Do the signs correspond to what you expected them to be? Explain.
(b) You remember that human capital in addition to physical capital also plays a role in determining the
standard of living of a country. You therefore collect additional data on the average educational
attainment in years for 1985, and add this variable (Educ) to the above regression. This results in the
modified regression output:
= 0.046 5.869 × n + 0.738 × SK + 0.055 × Educ, =0.775, SER = 0.1377
How has the inclusion of Educ affected your previous results?
(c) Upon checking the regression output, you realize that there are only 86 observations, since data for
Educ is not available for all 104 countries in your sample. Do you have to modify some of your statements
in (d)?
(d) Brazil has the following values in your sample: RelPersInc = 0.30, n = 0.021, SK = 0.169, Educ = 3.5. Does
your equation overpredict or underpredict the relative GDP per worker? What would happen to this
result if Brazil managed to double the average educational attainment?
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8) Attendance at sports events depends on various factors. Teams typically do not change ticket prices
from game to game to attract more spectators to less attractive games. However, there are other
marketing tools used, such as fireworks, free hats, etc., for this purpose. You work as a consultant for a
sports team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to help them forecast attendance, so that they can potentially
devise strategies for price discrimination. After collecting data over two years for every one of the 162
home games of the 2000 and 2001 season, you run the following regression:
= 15,005 + 201 × Temperat + 465 × DodgNetWin + 82 × OppNetWin
+ 9647 × DFSaSu + 1328 × Drain + 1609 × D150m + 271 × DDiv 978 × D2001;
=0.416, SER = 6983
where Attend is announced stadium attendance, Temperat it the average temperature on game day,
DodgNetWin are the net wins of the Dodgers before the game (wins-losses), OppNetWin is the opposing
team's net wins at the end of the previous season, and DFSaSu, Drain, D150m, Ddiv, and D2001 are binary
variables, taking a value of 1 if the game was played on a weekend, it rained during that day, the
opposing team was within a 150 mile radius, the opposing team plays in the same division as the
Dodgers, and the game was played during 2001, respectively.
(a) Interpret the regression results. Do the coefficients have the expected signs?
(b) Excluding the last four binary variables results in the following regression result:
= 14,838 + 202 × Temperat + 435 × DodgNetWin + 90 × OppNetWin
+ 10,472 × DFSaSu, =0.410, SER = 6925
According to this regression, what is your forecast of the change in attendance if the temperature
increases by 30 degrees? Is it likely that people attend more games if the temperature increases? Is it
possible that Temperat picks up the effect of an omitted variable?
(c) Assuming that ticket sales depend on prices, what would your policy advice be for the Dodgers to
increase attendance?
(d) Dodger stadium is large and is not often sold out. The Boston Red Sox play in a much smaller
stadium, Fenway Park, which often reaches capacity. If you did the same analysis for the Red Sox, what
problems would you foresee in your analysis?
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9) The administration of your university/college is thinking about implementing a policy of coed floors
only in dormitories. Currently there are only single gender floors. One reason behind such a policy might
be to generate an atmosphere of better "understanding" between the sexes. The Dean of Students (DoS)
has decided to investigate if such a behavior results in more "togetherness" by attempting to find the
determinants of the gender composition at the dinner table in your main dining hall, and in that of a
neighboring university, which only allows for coed floors in their dorms. The survey includes 176
students, 63 from your university/college, and 113 from a neighboring institution.
(a) The Dean's first problem is how to define gender composition. To begin with, the survey excludes
single persons' tables, since the study is to focus on group behavior. The Dean also eliminates sports
teams from the analysis, since a large number of single-gender students will sit at the same table. Finally,
the Dean decides to only analyze tables with three or more students, since she worries about "couples"
distorting the results. The Dean finally settles for the following specification of the dependent variable:
GenderComp=
Where " " stands for absolute value of Z. The variable can take on values from zero to fifty. Briefly
analyze some of the possible values. What are the implications for gender composition as more female
students join a given number of males at the table? Why would you choose the absolute value here?
Discuss some other possible specifications for the dependent variable.
(b) After considering various explanatory variables, the Dean settles for an initial list of eight, and
estimates the following relationship:
= 30.90 3.78 × Size 8.81 × DCoed + 2.28 × DFemme + 2.06 × DRoommate
- 0.17 × DAthlete + 1.49 × DCons 0.81 SAT + 1.74 × SibOther, =0.24, SER = 15.50
where Size is the number of persons at the table minus 3, DCoed is a binary variable, which takes on the
value of 1 if you live on a coed floor, DFemme is a binary variable, which is 1 for females and zero
otherwise, DRoommate is a binary variable which equals 1 if the person at the table has a roommate and is
zero otherwise, DAthlete is a binary variable which is 1 if the person at the table is a member of an athletic
varsity team, DCons is a variable which measures the political tendency of the person at the table on a
seven-point scale, ranging from 1 being "liberal" to 7 being "conservative," SAT is the SAT score of the
person at the table measured on a seven-point scale, ranging from 1 for the category "900-1000" to 7 for
the category "1510 and above," and increasing by one for 100 point increases, and SibOther is the number
of siblings from the opposite gender in the family the person at the table grew up with.
Interpret the above equation carefully, justifying the inclusion of the explanatory variables along the way.
Does it make sense to interpret the constant in the above regression?
(c) Had the Dean used the number of people sitting at the table instead of Number-3, what effect would
that have had on the above specification?
(d) If you believe that going down the hallway and knocking on doors is one of the major determinants of
who goes to eat with whom, then why would it not be a good idea to survey students at lunch tables?
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10) The Solow growth model suggests that countries with identical saving rates and population growth
rates should converge to the same per capita income level. This result has been extended to include
investment in human capital (education) as well as investment in physical capital. This hypothesis is
referred to as the "conditional convergence hypothesis," since the convergence is dependent on countries
obtaining the same values in the driving variables. To test the hypothesis, you collect data from the Penn
World Tables on the average annual growth rate of GDP per worker (g6090) for the 1960-1990 sample
period, and regress it on the (i) initial starting level of GDP per worker relative to the United States in
1960 (RelProd60), (ii) average population growth rate of the country (n), (iii) average investment share of
GDP from 1960 to 1990 (SK - remember investment equals savings), and (iv) educational attainment in
years for 1985 (Educ). The results for close to 100 countries is as follows:
= 0.004 0.172 × n + 0.133 × SK + 0.002 × Educ 0.044 × RelProd60,
=0.537, SER = 0.011
(a) Interpret the results. Do the coefficients have the expected signs? Why does a negative coefficient on
the initial level of per capita income indicate conditional convergence ("beta-convergence")?
(b) Equations of the above type have been labeled "determinants of growth" equations in the literature.
You recall from your intermediate macroeconomics course that growth in the Solow growth model is
determined by technological progress. Yet the above equation does not contain technological progress. Is
that inconsistent?
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11) You have collected a sub-sample from the Current Population Survey for the western region of the
United States. Running a regression of average hourly earnings (ahe) on an intercept only, you get the
following result:
= 0 = 18.58
a. Interpret the result.
b. You decide to include a single explanatory variable without an intercept. The binary variable DFemme
takes on a value of "1" for females but is "0" otherwise. The regression result changes as follows:
= 1×DFemme = 16.50×DFemme
What is the interpretation now?
c. You generate a new binary variable DMale by subtracting DFemme from 1, and run the new regression:
= 2×DMale = 20.09×DMale
What is the interpretation of the coefficient now?
d. After thinking about the above results, you recognize that you could have generated the last two
results either by running a regression on both binary variables, or on an intercept and one of the binary
variables. What would the results have been?

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