Reference no: EM132902463
Your firm just launched a new product and has solicited a large number of potential customers to rate its effectiveness between 0 and 100. You are particularly interested in how an individual's rating of the new depends on his/her age. To estimate this effect, you divide the potential customers into age groups: under 25, 26 - 40, 41 - 55, and over 55.
You then assume the following data-generating process:
Ratingi = α + β1Age25i + β2Age2640i + β3Age4155i + β4Age55i +Ui
Here, each Age variable is a dichotomous variable that equals 1 if individual i belong to that age group and 0 otherwise.
-Create the dichotomous variables: Age25, Age22640, Age4155, Age55.
-Why are you unable to estimate the effect of each age group as listed?
-Estimate and interpret the effect of changing age groups on the Rating.