You Have Collected Data for a Cross-Section of Countries in Two

question 46

Essay

You have collected data for a cross-section of countries in two time periods, 1960 and 1997, say. Your task is to find the determinants for the Wealth of a Nation (per capita income) and you believe that there are three major determinants: investment in physical capital in both time periods $\left( X _ { 1 , T } \text { and } X _ { 1,0 } \right)$ investment in human capital or education $\left( X _ { 2 , T } \text { and } X _ { 2,0 } \right)$ and per capita income in the initial period $\left( Y _ { 0 } \right)$ You run the following regression:
$\ln \left( Y _ { T } \right) = \beta _ { 0 } + \beta _ { 1 } X _ { 1 , T } + \beta _ { 2 } X _ { 1,0 } + \beta _ { 3 } X _ { 2 , T } + \beta _ { 4 } X _ { 1,0 } + \beta _ { 5 } \ln \left( Y _ { 0 } \right) + u _ { T }$
One of your peers suggests that instead, you should run the growth rate in per capita income over the two periods on the change in physical and human capital. For those results to be a parsimonious presentation of your initial regression, what three restrictions would have to hold? How would you test for these? The same person also points out to you that the intercept vanishes in equations where the data is differenced. Is that correct?

Understand the concept and application of factorial designs in experimental research.

Identify the main effect and interaction effects in factorial designs.

Differentiate between different types of experimental designs, including independent groups, repeated measures, and mixed factorial designs.

Recognize the importance of having multiple levels of an independent variable to discover nonmonotonic relationships.

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