You have data on two levels\u00a0(individuals and countries) for\u00a0an outcome variable (e.g. ‘trust’) and a predictor (e.g. ‘wealth’). Supppose that the\u00a0pooled and within-country individual-level correlations between the two variables\u00a0are strongly positive\u00a0but the between-country (country-level) correlation is zero. You build a regression with individual-level ‘trust’ as the dependent variable and individual-level wealth AND the country-level average of individual welath as predictors. Is there a well-known mechanism that induces a significantly negative\u00a0coefficient\u00a0for the country averages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You have data on two levels\u00a0(individuals and countries) for\u00a0an outcome variable (e.g. ‘trust’) and a predictor (e.g. ‘wealth’). Supppose that the\u00a0pooled and within-country individual-level correlations between the two variables\u00a0are strongly positive\u00a0but the between-country (country-level) correlation is zero. You build a regression with individual-level ‘trust’ as the dependent variable and individual-level wealth AND the country-level average of individual welath as predictors. Is there a well-known mechanism that induces a significantly negative\u00a0coefficient\u00a0for the country averages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[201,202,315,422],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-3F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":526,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=526","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":0},"title":"Correlation does not imply causation. Then what does it imply?","date":"October 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"'Correlation does not imply causation' is an adage students\u00a0from all social sciences are made to recite from a very\u00a0early age. 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