Let arr86 be a binary variable equal to 1 if a man was arrested during 1986, and zerootherwise. You have a dataset of young men from California who were born in 1960 or1961 and have at least one arrest prior to 1986. You also have data on the proportion ofprior arrests that led to a conviction (pcnv), the average sentence served from priorconvictions in months (avgsen), months spent in prison since age 18 prior to 1986(tottime), months spent in prison in 1986 (ptime86), and the number of quarters (0 to 4)that the man was legally employed in 1986 (qemp86). You estimate the following linearprobability model (standard errors are in parentheses):
arr86 = 0.441 - .162pcnv + .0061avgsen - .0023tottime (.017) (.021) (.0065) (.005)
- .022ptime86 - .043qemp86 (.005) (.005)
n= 2725R2=.0474
What is the predicted probability if arrest for a man with no prior convictions, so that pcnv, avgsen, tottime, and ptime86 are all zero, who was also employed all four quarters in 1986?
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