Discussion paper

DP19880 Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package

Spatial unit roots can lead to spurious regression results. We present a brief overview of the methods developed in Müller and Watson (2024) to test for and correct for spatial unit roots. We also introduce a suite of Stata commands (-spur-) implementing these techniques. Our commands exactly replicate results in Müller and Watson (2024) using the same Chetty et al. (2014) data. We present a brief practitioner’s guide for applied researchers.

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Citation

Becker, S, P Boll and H Voth (2025), ‘DP19880 Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19880. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp19880