%0 Report
        %A Becker, Sascha O.
%A Boll, P. David
%A Voth, Hans-Joachim
        %T Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17651
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17651
        %X 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.
        %K spurtest
%K spurious spatial regression
%K spatial unit roots
%K spurtransform