ECON 306 (ECON306)

Economics 306 Midterm #2, Spring 2015 100 Points 75 Minutes Instructions: Answer the following questions as clearly as you can. Circle your answers. Partial credit is available, but we cannot give partial credit unless you show your work. You do not need to write out every detail, but give a clear indication of how you are making your calculations. For problems with many parts where you use information from earlier in the problem to answer the question, you can receive full credit if you...

With this assignment you will find a STATA data file called . For reference, the variables in this file are: nox = nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) rm = average number of rooms per dwelling age = proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 dis = weighted distances to five Boston employment centers ptratio = pupil-teacher ratio by town lstat = percent lower status of population medv = median value of owner-occupied homes (in thousands of dollars)

(50 points total) In this exercise we will examine whether a teacher’s physical attractiveness has any impact on student course evaluations. The dataset to use is called teachingratings, and a description of the variables is available as well. You can access these through the course website. Use an α=.05 for hypothesis testing. We’ll first examine whether our control variables seem to have any predictive power for ratings. a.) (10 points) We’ll start with some basic dummy variable r...

ECON 306 Homework 5 Answers (Penn State University) ECON 306 Homework 5 Answers (Penn State University) Problem 1 In the dataset Smoker, there is information on 1196 males from the United States. Data from this sample includes the variables: smoke= 1 for smokers, and 0 for nonsmokers age=age in years educ= number of years of schooling income= family income pcigs= price of cigarettes in the individual’s state Part 1 Part 2 Part 3