* Reference: Chapter 13 of * Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, * South-Western College Publishing, 2000. SAMPLE 1 321 READ (KIELMC.shd) year age agesq nbh cbd intst lintst price rooms & area land baths dist ldist wind lprice y81 larea lland y81ldist & lintstsq nearinc y81nrinc rprice lrprice * Example 13.3, pp. 414-417 * The data set is arranged with all data for 1978 (179 observations), * followed by all data for 1981. * Rescale the price variable to express house prices in thousands * of dollars. GENR rprice = rprice / 1000 * House price equation for 1981 - Equation (13.4), p. 415. SAMPLE 180 321 OLS rprice nearinc * Note that the rescaling of the price variable has resulted in * a rescaling of the estimated coefficients. * House price equation for 1978 - Equation (13.5), p. 415. SAMPLE 1 179 OLS rprice nearinc * Separate regressions for each year can be obtained from a * pooled regression that incorporates dummy variables. SAMPLE 1 321 * Estimation results in column (1) of Table 13.2, p. 416 OLS rprice y81 nearinc y81nrinc * Estimation results in column (2) of Table 13.2, p. 416 OLS rprice y81 nearinc y81nrinc age agesq * Estimation results in column (3) of Table 13.2, p. 416 OLS rprice y81 nearinc y81nrinc age agesq intst land area rooms baths * Now consider a log-transformed dependent variable * Equation (13-9), p. 417 OLS lprice y81 nearinc y81nrinc OLS lprice y81 nearinc y81nrinc age agesq lintst lland larea rooms baths STOP