伍德里奇计量经济学第三版教师手册CHAPTER 7.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 74 CHAPTER 7 TEACHING NOTES This is a fairly standard chapter on using qualitative information in regression analysis, although I try to emphasize examples with policy relevance (and only cross-sectional applications are included.). In allowing for different slopes, it is important, as in Chapter 6, to appropriately interpret the parameters and to decide whether they are of direct interest. For example, in the wage equation where the return to education is allowed to depend on gender, the coefficient on the female dummy variable is the wage differential between women and me