If One Ran the Regression on Whether a Mortgage Applicant

question 13

Multiple Choice

If one ran the regression on whether a mortgage applicant was approved for a loan or not (Approved_i) on their income to debt ratio, this would be an example of what sort of model?

• A) A two-stage least squares model
• B) A fixed-effects model
• C) A within estimator model
• D) A linear probability model

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