TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Becker, Sascha O.
AU  - Boll, P. David
AU  - Voth, Hans-Joachim
        TI  - Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package
        PY  - 2025/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17651
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17651
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - spurtest
KW  - spurious spatial regression
KW  - spatial unit roots
KW  - spurtransform
        ER  -