education of economic
Problem Set 4-Chapter 8 & 9
1) Use schooling data to answer the following questions (see also below for data
dictionary).
a) Run a regression of math test scores on student's gender, family size, class size, teacher's gender and
fraction of LEP (limited English proficiency) students in the school. Interpret the coefficient estimates.
b) Based on your findings from part (a), what would be the optimal education policy to improve student
test score outcomes.
Gender (Dummy): 1 for female student 2 for male student
family size (continuous): family size of the student
test (continuous): test scores-outcome variable
classsize (continuous): class size
teacher gender (dummy): 1 for female teacher 2 for female teacher
lep (continuous): fraction of students in the school who are limited English proficiency.
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