Homework #4

Due 8am Saturday Oct 6, 2012

Econ B2000, MA Econometrics

Kevin R Foster, CCNY

For this exercise your study group may hand in a single assignment. When submitting assignments, please include your name and the assignment number as part of the filename. Please write the names of your study group members at the beginning of your homework. These assignments will be made public and available to all members of the class.

1. What topic do you think you would like to have for your final project? Find another academic article and write a short (about a page) review. (One article per person so a 3-person study group would write 3 reviews of 3 articles.)

2. Use the ATUS dataset and make hypothesis tests about the difference in average time spent on various activities (your choice) depending on demographic characteristics (again, your choice). Carefully explain the null hypothesis and alternate, the test statistic, confidence interval, and p-value for each.