Question
In a regression, if an important explanatory variable is omitted, it can lead to:
Solution
Omitted variable bias occurs when a variable that is correlated with both the included regressor(s) and the dependent variable is left out of the model. This causes the error term to be correlated with the regressor, biasing the OLS estimates.
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