Treatment Effects: Suppose you are interested in whether reading to your kids makes them smarter. So you collect a sample of student test scores, and whether parents read to their kids. You regress the following regression model where
Student Achivement= B0 + B1 Readingi + B2Marital Statusi + B3Agei + B4Agei^2
Explain whether we can interpret the coefficient on hours reading to the kid as a causal parameter. Why or why not? If not, how what can we do in terms of experimental and non-experimental methods to isolate the effect of reading on student achievement?