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Examples and Applications
CHAPTER 5 Hypothesis Tests and Model Selection 108
Example 5.1 Art Appreciation 116
Example 5.2 Earnings Equation 116
Example 5.3 Restricted Investment Equation 120
Example 5.4 Production Function 124
Example 5.5 F Test for the Earnings Equation 126
Example 5.6 A Long-Run Marginal Propensity to Consume 132
Example 5.7 J Test for a Consumption Function 136
Example 5.8 Size of a RESET Test 138
Example 5.9 Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates 142
CHAPTER 6 Functional Form and Structural Change 149
Example 6.1 Dummy Variable in an Earnings Equation 150
Example 6.2 Value of a Signature 150
Example 6.3 Genre Effects on Movie Box Office Receipts 152
Example 6.4 Analysis of Covariance 153
Example 6.5 A Natural Experiment: The Mariel Boatlift 157
Example 6.6 Functional Form for a Nonlinear Cost Function 162
Example 6.7 Intrinsically Linear Regression 166
Example 6.8 CES Production Function 167
Example 6.9 Structural Break in the Gasoline Market 172
Example 6.10 The World Health Report 173
CHAPTER 7 Nonlinear, Semiparametric, and Nonparametric Regression
Models 181
Example 7.1 CES Production Function 182
Example 7.2 Identification in a Translog Demand System 183
Example 7.3 First-Order Conditions for a Nonlinear Model 185
Example 7.4 Analysis of a Nonlinear Consumption Function 191
Example 7.5 The Box–Cox Transformation 193
Example 7.6 Interaction Effects in a Loglinear Model for Income 195
Example 7.7 Linearized Regression 201
Example 7.8 Nonlinear Least Squares 202
Example 7.9 LAD Estimation of a Cobb–Douglas Production
Function 205
Example 7.10 Income Elasticity of Credit Card Expenditure 208
Example 7.11 Partially Linear Translog Cost Function 211
Example 7.12 A Nonparametric Average Cost Function 214
CHAPTER 8 Endogeneity and Instrumental Variable Estimation 219
Example 8.1 Models with Endogenous Right-Hand-Side Variables 219
Example 8.2 Instrumental Variable Analysis 228
Example 8.3 Streams as Instruments 228
Example 8.4 Instrumental Variable in Regression 229
Example 8.5 Instrumental Variable Estimation of a Labor Supply
Equation 232
Example 8.6 Labor Supply Model (Continued) 236