Your friend gives you the data from a day of taco sales at each of the 40 food trucks, and asks you to estimate a demand curve. They let each taco truck driver set their own price, so there's lots of variance in prices. Qi =B0 +B1 Pi +ui j=1to40. You look at the data and discover that the correlation of Q and P is positive in this sample. Your friend laughs at you, --they learned in high school that demand curves slope downwards Explain how a positive correlation of Q and P might happen, by describing at least one real life omitted variable that might result in a positive correlation, and using the terms linear causal effect and the omitted variable bias formula

Your friend gives you the data from a day of taco sales at each of the 40 food trucks, and asks you to estimate a demand curve. They let each taco truck driver set their own price, so there's lots of variance in prices. Qi =B0 +B1 Pi +ui j=1to40. You look at the data and discover that the correlation of Q and P is positive in this sample. Your friend laughs at you, --they learned in high school that demand curves slope downwards Explain how a positive correlation of Q and P might happen, by describing at least one real life omitted variable that might result in a positive correlation, and using the terms linear causal effect and the omitted variable bias formula

Microeconomic Theory

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Author:NICHOLSON

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Chapter3: Preferences And Utility

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 3.12P

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