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Non-constant error variance and the loss of efficiency

You regress hourly wages on years of experience for 3,000 workers. The residual plot fans out: experienced, high-wage workers scatter far more widely than entry-level workers. A colleague says, "The slope is still unbiased, so who cares?"

Name the problem and identify what property of OLS is lost, beyond the standard errors being wrong.

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