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PSC 402 13 November 2023 Chapter 12 Workbook Question 5: Suppose that a critic expresses skepticism about the relationship between mass-level abortion attitudes and the number of state-level restrictions on abortion. Critic: There is a key aspect of state governance that you have not taken into account: the percentage of state legislators who are women. When you perform a multiple regression analysis of the States Dataset’s abortlaws variable, using both prochoice_percent and women_stateleg as independent variables, I think you will find that women_stateleg is statistically significant, while prochoice_percent will fade to statistical insignificance. Part A: Use Stata’s regress command to estimate the multiple regression model suggested by the critic. (only need coefficients, p values, constant & r-squared). - Coefficients: ● Prochoice_Percent: -0.125986 ● Women_StateLeg: -0.1482897 - P Values: ● Prochoice_Percent: 0.001 ● Women_StateLeg: 0.002 - Constant: ● 18.27633 - R Squared: ● 0.3961 Part C: Based on the evidence in parts A and B, is the critic’s claim correct regarding the factors that explain variation in state abortion restrictions? (select one) - Correct Incorrect - Explain your answer: The critic is incorrect about the percentage of legislators who are women being the factor that is statistically significant, and that the percentage of adults who support abortion is insignificant. Both variables are statistically significant because both of their p-values are less than 0.05.

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