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Introduction to Econometrics 3rd Edition by James Stock, Mark Watson
Edition 3ISBN: 978-9352863501Introduction to Econometrics 3rd Edition by James Stock, Mark Watson
Edition 3ISBN: 978-9352863501 Exercise 15
A researcher plans to study the causal effect of police on crime using data from a random sample of U.S. counties. He plans to regress the county's crime rate on the (per capita) size of the county's police force.
a. Explain why this regression is likely to suffer from omitted variable bias. Which variables would you add to the regression to control for important omitted variables
b. Use your answer to (a) and the expression for omitted variable bias given in Equation (6.1) to determine whether the regression will likely over- or underestimate the effect of police on the crime rate. (That is, do you think that
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a. Explain why this regression is likely to suffer from omitted variable bias. Which variables would you add to the regression to control for important omitted variables
b. Use your answer to (a) and the expression for omitted variable bias given in Equation (6.1) to determine whether the regression will likely over- or underestimate the effect of police on the crime rate. (That is, do you think that
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