exnyo get beter way losin aoe tan the researcher's method? were \erowering drug. The drug See another 500 patients, using torn ennui wou! ad a orth weight. ages and gene these ato improve your estimate? Jsstero levels of cach patient iment, Could you use these data to arepory srens tg *edotal evidence that school rere bce their children inthe small Jes led to this presure and trans seth, ould hs compromise he Tore tht had data on the original ran- fhe th Principal 's intervention, How sts (ike ternal validity of the study? venta Hawthorne effect) might be anaplepfevious thee questions Bus ihsich some schools were dam- ted chay' #8 example of a quasi-experi- sin lass sizes to estimate the te thy ect, ey lowing foreach grade:an est- ¢ inter \ite to the regular classi stan ) Wh (For this exercise, jgnore the the re vith qin column (4) of Table 13.2. at: vical values of the regressors in andl nerval \Stom B isa“regular cass” Vorthe expected difference in ieee experi rence i ¥- of experience and classroom B Construct a 95% confidence Brercises 511 ‘c. Classroom A is a small class with a teacher with 5 years of experience and classroom B is a regular class with a teacher with 10 years of expe- rience, Construct a 95% confidence I for the expected differ- cence in average est scores, (Hint: In STAR, the teachers were randomly assigned to the different types of classrooms) 4d. Why is the intercept missing from column (4)? 13.3. Suppose that,in a randomized conti preparatory course on SAT scores, the following results are reported: lled experiment of the effect of an SAT ‘Treatment Group Control Group ‘Average SAT score CR) ia 120 Standard deviation of SAT sore (55) 932 ont Number of men s 4 Number of women r 3s a, Estimate the average treatment effect on test scores. b Is there evidence of nonrandom assignment? Explain 134 Read the box“ What Is the Effect on Employment of the Minimum Wage?” in Section 135. Suppose for concreteness that Card and Krueger collected their datain 1991 (before the change in the New Jersey minimum wage) and in 1993 (ater the change inthe New Jersey minimum wage). Consider Equa- tion (13.7) with the W regressors excluded. 4, What isthe value of X,,G;,and D, for: ‘ANew Jersey restaurant in 1991? ‘ANNew Jersey restaurant in 1993? ‘A Pennsylvania restaurant in 1991? iv. A Pennsylvania restaurant in 19932 b. In terms of the coefficients B,, 8, B;,and By, what is the expected umber of employees in: 4 A New Jersey restaurant in 1991 A New Jersey restaurant in 1993? A Pennsylvania restaurat iv. A Pennsulvania restaurant in 1993? Interms of the coefficients f, 8, B:,and 8, what is the average causal effect of the minimum wage on employment?”512 CHAPTER 13514 CHAPTER 13. Exp Empirical Exercises EIB.516 CHAPTER 13. Expr ‘ Be APPENDIX 13.1 | The Project Star Data Set