You are interested in analyzing how rent controls affect students' housing outcomes. You collect information from a random sample of 350 counties across the US. Let on_campus summarize the share of undergraduate students in the county that live on campus. Let rent_control be an indicator variable equal to 1 if the county has rent controls and zero if it does not. These are the descriptive statistics for your sample: rent_control = 0.1 on_campus = 0.18 sample variance of rent_control = s²rent_control = 0.3 sample variance of on_campus = s². = 0.2 on_campus

You are interested in analyzing how rent controls affect students' housing outcomes. You collect information from a random sample of 350 counties across the US. Let on_campus summarize the share of undergraduate students in the county that live on campus. Let rent_control be an indicator variable equal to 1 if the county has rent controls and zero if it does not. These are the descriptive statistics for your sample: rent_control = 0.1 on_campus = 0.18 sample variance of rent_control = s²rent_control = 0.3 sample variance of on_campus = s². = 0.2 on_campus

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Chapter1: Introducing The Economic Way Of Thinking

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