ECON 1629 Midterm: Midterm 1 Solutions
Document Summary
Public health o cials spend a great deal of time encouraging people to receive a vaccination for in- In addition to health concerns about widespread outbreaks of the. U, other reasons to encourage widespread vaccination rates include minimizing the number of sick days people must take from work (and school) during u season. Some employers, recognizing the productivity implications of employee illness, have begun sponsoring u vaccinations in the workplace. To investigate a possible link between u vaccination rates and number of sick days taken by em- ployees, researchers obtained data on a random sample of 1,000 employers. Consider the following regression results: where: sickdays= total number of employee sick days. Ushot=1 if employer o ered u shots on site. Ushot=0 if employer did not o er u shots on site. If you nd any error or typo, please email me at angelica_meinhofer_santiago@brown. edu. 1: (3 points) write the sample regression function (i. e. estimated equation)
