Problem Set 3
Econ 7910: Research seminar in economic development: microeconomic applications, Spring 2024
1. This exercise requires dowloading from the readings folder the zipped ile “voting16.cps” . The ile contains the code I used to generate the last 2 slides of lecture #3. You may use either voting.do or voting.R depending on your language preferences.
(a) Run the following three regressions on subsets of the data as follows:
(b) Generate appropriate dummies and run the regression stated at the end of Page 11 of the lecture 3 slides.
i. Verify that the estimates from the regressions above satisfy: α = a0 , β = b0 , α 1 = a1 — a0 , β1 = b1 — b0 , etc...
2. Bueno de Mesquita and Fowler, Exercise 6.1
3. Bueno de Mesquita and Fowler, Exercise 8.3