Questions from General Economics


Q: Use the data in BEAUTY for this question. (i

Use the data in BEAUTY for this question. (i) Using the data pooled for men and women, estimate the equation and report the results using heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors below coefficients....

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Q: Use the data in FERTIL2 to answer this question. (

Use the data in FERTIL2 to answer this question. (i) Find the smallest and largest values of children in the sample. What is the average of children? Does any woman have exactly the average number of...

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Q: Use the data in CATHOLIC to answer this question. (

Use the data in CATHOLIC to answer this question. (i) In the entire sample, what percentage of the students attend a Catholic high school? What is the average of math12 in the entire sample? (ii) Run...

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Q: Use the data in GPA1 for this exercise. Add

Use the data in GPA1 for this exercise. Add the variables mothcoll and fathcoll to the equation estimated in (7.6) and report the results in the usual form. What happens to the estimated effect of P...

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Q: Use the data in NBASAL for this exercise. (i

Use the data in NBASAL for this exercise. (i) Estimate a linear regression model relating points per game to experience in the league and position (guard, forward, or center). Include experience in qu...

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Q: Use the data in 401KSUBS for this exercise. (i

Use the data in 401KSUBS for this exercise. (i) Compute the average, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum values of nettfa in the sample. (ii) Test the hypothesis that average nettfa does not diff...

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Q: Use the data set in BEAUTY, which contains a subset of

Use the data set in BEAUTY, which contains a subset of the variables (but more usable observations than in the regressions) reported by Hamermesh and Biddle (1994). (i) Find the separate fractions of...

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Q: Use the data in APPLE to answer this question. (

Use the data in APPLE to answer this question. (i) Define a binary variable as ecobuy = 1 if ecolbs > 0 and ecobuy = 0 if ecolbs = 0. In other words, ecobuy indicates whether, at the prices given,...

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Q: Use VOTE1 for this exercise. (i) Estimate a

Use VOTE1 for this exercise. (i) Estimate a model with voteA as the dependent variable and prtystrA, democA, log(expendA), and log(expendB) as independent variables. Obtain the OLS residuals,

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Q: Use the data in CHARITY to answer this question. The variable

Use the data in CHARITY to answer this question. The variable respond is a dummy variable equal to one if a person responded with a contribution on the most recent mailing sent by a charitable organiz...

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