hard20 pts · first answer countslinear-regressioncausal-inference
Direction of omitted variable bias
True model: salary = b1 x education + b2 x ability. Ability raises salary (b2 > 0) and is positively correlated with education. If you omit ability, how is the estimate of b1 affected?
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