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Published in final edited form as: Comput Econ. 2018 Feb 13;2018:10.1007/s10614-018-9799-4. doi: 10.1007/s10614-018-9799-4

Table 2.

Causal ordering for the base case model with surplus (sur) chosen to be an independent variable and the number of tenurable faculty (facten) chosen to be a dependent variable.

Causal Order	Complete Subsets of Variables	Complete Subsets of Equations
1	(stud), (rasst), (tloadten), (clszeg), (expresru), (inctuit), (space)	(1), (2), (3), (5), (15), (22), (29)
2	(clsze), (tchfrac), (capspace)	(4), (8), (30)
3	(clszeu), (ratio), (exptdir), (ot), (exprdirac), (or)	(6), (7), (10), (11), (18), (19)
4	(ovrhdtamt), (exptch), (exprdir)	(9), (12), (13)
5	(incres, costother, incresac, costga, costspace, expres, expresac, inc, resdir, costda, ovrhdramt, spacebd, ovrhdramtac, quoten, expdoc, exptot)	(14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38)
6	(spaceed), (spaceom), (resind)	(26), (33), (34)