Lecture 1: Empirical Methods for Economists Flashcards

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What are Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and how are they relevant for econometrics?

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What is a spurious correlation?

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Write a simple OLS regression to determine the impact of eduation on wage

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What is the Mincer Quation?

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What sort of evidence is a positive regression?

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Why might education level not be a causal variable for wage level?

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What are the three different types of data - describe them

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Want is sample selection? Give an example

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What is a selected sample? Give an example

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