Adding city controls and province fixed effects raises the model’s explained variance to 0.585.
Evidence
Observations 196 196 196 194 204 189 R-squared 0.039 0.500 0.585 0.443 0.412 0.491 City Controls - ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Province FE - - ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) dep. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 257
Categorization
- DEFINE: The R-squared ladder (0.039 to 0.585) shows the Danat dummy alone explains almost nothing until controls and province FE absorb heterogeneity.
- QUESTION: With province FAbsorbing so much variation, do the coefficients depend heavily on within-province comparisons?