Oh No! I Got the Wrong Sign! What Should I Do?

Getting a â€œwrongâ€ sign in empirical work is a common phenomenon. Remarkably, econometrics textbooks provide very little information to practitioners on how this problem can arise. The author exposits a long list of ways in which a wrong sign can occur and how it might be corrected.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Kennedy, Peter E.
Published in:	Journal of Economic Education. - Helen Dwight Reid Foundation, ISSN 0022-0485. - Vol. 36.2005, 1, p. 77-92
Publisher:	Helen Dwight Reid Foundation
Subject:	data mining \| false significance \| misspecification

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	A2 - Economics Education and Teaching of Economics ; C00 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods. General ; C50 - Econometric Modeling. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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