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Suppose You Are Interested in Examining the Determinants of Earnings

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Suppose you are interested in examining the determinants of earnings.You have information on the age of the individual as well as their level of education: high school graduate,college graduate or graduate degree.Let Y = earnings,X1 = age,X2 = 1 if the person has only a high school degree and 0 otherwise,X3 = 1 if the person has a college degree and 0 otherwise,X4 = 1 if the person has a graduate degree and 0 otherwise.Which of the following model specifications would work for this data?


A) Y = β0 + β1X1 + β2X2 + β3X3
B) Y = β0 + β1X1 + β2X2 + β3X3 + β4X4
C) Y = Suppose you are interested in examining the determinants of earnings.You have information on the age of the individual as well as their level of education: high school graduate,college graduate or graduate degree.Let Y = earnings,X<sub>1</sub><sub> </sub>= age,X<sub>2</sub> = 1 if the person has only a high school degree and 0 otherwise,X<sub>3</sub> = 1 if the person has a college degree and 0 otherwise,X<sub>4</sub> = 1 if the person has a graduate degree and 0 otherwise.Which of the following model specifications would work for this data? A) Y = β<sub>0</sub> + β<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub> + β<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub> + β<sub>3</sub>X<sub>3</sub> B) Y = β<sub>0</sub> + β<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub> + β<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub> + β<sub>3</sub>X<sub>3</sub> + β<sub>4</sub>X<sub>4</sub> C) Y =   D) Y = β<sub>1</sub> + β<sub>2</sub> + β<sub>3</sub> + β<sub>4</sub> + X<sub>1</sub>+ X<sub>2</sub> + X<sub>3</sub> + X<sub>4</sub>
D) Y = β1 + β2 + β3 + β4 + X1+ X2 + X3 + X4

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