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1. In OLS, is the effect of expenditure in State 2 on *testscore* 11.16 units
more than State 1? Or is it 11.16 - 0.0068 (-0.0068 is the coefficient on the
interaction between state 2 and expenditure)
For state 1, you have this model: 97.34217 - 0.0024748*perstudent
For state 2, you have this model: (97.34217+11.15724) +
(-0.0024748-.0067742)*perstudent
Et cetera
2. In Fixed Effects, _Istate_2 and _Istate_3 were dropped. _IstaXpers~2 and
_IstaXpers~3 were not. How would one interpret the coefficients on IstaXpers~2
and _IstaXpers~3 in the Fixed Effects model?
FE is basically just an OLS. Any dummies that are taken care of by the
fixed effects procedure will be dropped. The other coefficients are
interpreted in the same way (they should be exactly the same, and they
should be interpreted in the same way). If you use fixed effects, you
don't need to use xi, unless you are estimating a different set of
dummies with xi.
3. Does the coefficient on *perstudent* indicate that increasing expenditure
across *all three states* is decreasing testscores by 0.0025 units? Or does
*perstudent* refer to a specific state?
Perstudent represents the slope of state 1. Each of the others will be
the sum of this coefficient and the state-specific coefficient. See above.
Thank you. I really appreciate your taking the time to help.
Do you know why scores go down as spending goes up?
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Kyle Hood
Department of Economics
Yale University
New Haven, CT
website: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~kkh25
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