ECON 1629 Midterm: Midterm 1 Practice Problems
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After graduating, you start working for the rhode island department of education. Commissioner of education is interested in the determinants of a student"s performance as measured by the test score on the final exam. In particular, she would like to understand whether attending classes and doing the homework assignments help students perform better. The existing data consists of a random sample of 680 students, so each observation in your data set represents a student. Table 1 presents summary statistics of your main variables. Table 2 presents results of 5 separate ols regressions. The dependent variable for all regressions is the final exam score (final). =1 if person is female; =0 if person is male. Min attend termgpa prigpa final hwrte skipped income. Dependent variable: final (1) attend prigpa hwrte lincome. Explain in a language that the commissioner can understand. (d) for regression results reported in column (4), fill in the following table:
