... e¤ect of w onEðy jw; cÞ, holding c fixed, is easily estimated.Unfortunately, complications often arise in the collection and analysis of economic data because of the nonexperimental nature of economics. ... function of x.Wheny and x are random, it makes sense to usethe right-hand side of equation (2.8), but where f ðxÞ is the conditional mean, mðxÞ.Therefore, the (partial) elasticity of Eðy jxÞ ... on x1 and x2, x1x2has zero mean and isuncorrelated with x1 and x2.)d. Why is equation (2.47) generally more useful than equation (2.48)?2.4. For random scalars u and v and a random...