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Wages and characteristics of young men from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS), originally analyzed in Griliches (1976). This dataset is a standard IV example used in Hayashi (2000, Ch. 3) and Baum, Schaffer & Stillman (2007, pp. 492–494) to illustrate weak identification tests, Anderson–Rubin inference, Stock–Wright S statistics, and instrument redundancy.

Usage

griliches

Format

A data frame with 758 observations and 20 variables:

rns

Residency in the South (1 = yes).

rns80

Residency in the South in 1980.

mrt

Marital status (1 = married).

mrt80

Marital status in 1980.

smsa

Resides in metropolitan area (1 = urban).

smsa80

Resides in metropolitan area in 1980.

med

Mother's education (years).

iq

IQ score.

kww

Score on Knowledge of the World of Work test.

year

Survey year (66–73 or 80).

age

Age at survey.

age80

Age in 1980.

s

Completed years of schooling.

s80

Completed years of schooling in 1980.

expr

Work experience (years).

expr80

Work experience in 1980 (years).

tenure

Job tenure (years).

tenure80

Job tenure in 1980 (years).

lw

Log wage.

lw80

Log wage in 1980.

Source

Griliches, Z. (1976). Wages of very young men. Journal of Political Economy, 84(4), S69–S85.

Downloaded from http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/hayashi/griliches76.dta.

Redistribution basis: system.file("COPYRIGHTS", package = "ivreg2r").

Details

Two cross-sections are pooled (survey years 66–73 and 80). The Baum, Schaffer & Stillman (2007) examples use year dummies via factor(year).

References

Hayashi, F. (2000). Econometrics. Princeton University Press. (Chapter 3, p. 255.)

Baum, C.F., Schaffer, M.E. and Stillman, S. (2007). Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/generalized method of moments estimation and testing. The Stata Journal, 7(4), 465–506. (pp. 492–494.)

See also

Examples

data(griliches)

# Baum, Schaffer & Stillman (2007), p. 493: IV with robust SEs, weak-ID
# diagnostics, redundancy test
fit <- ivreg2(lw ~ s + expr + tenure + rns + smsa + factor(year) |
                iq | age + mrt,
              data = griliches, vcov = "robust",
              redundant = "mrt")
summary(fit)
#> 
#> 2SLS Estimation
#> 
#> Call:
#> ivreg2(formula = lw ~ s + expr + tenure + rns + smsa + factor(year) | 
#>     iq | age + mrt, data = griliches, vcov = "robust", redundant = "mrt")
#> 
#> Observations: 758 
#> VCV type:     Robust 
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#>                 Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
#> (Intercept)    10.550965   2.781762   3.793 0.000149 ***
#> iq             -0.094890   0.041890  -2.265 0.023500 *  
#> s               0.339712   0.118327   2.871 0.004092 ** 
#> expr           -0.006604   0.029255  -0.226 0.821406    
#> tenure          0.084885   0.030668   2.768 0.005643 ** 
#> rns            -0.376939   0.155997  -2.416 0.015678 *  
#> smsa            0.218119   0.103112   2.115 0.034399 *  
#> factor(year)67  0.007775   0.166325   0.047 0.962717    
#> factor(year)68  0.037799   0.152359   0.248 0.804061    
#> factor(year)69  0.334703   0.163799   2.043 0.041016 *  
#> factor(year)70  0.628643   0.246846   2.547 0.010875 *  
#> factor(year)71  0.444610   0.186188   2.388 0.016942 *  
#> factor(year)73  0.439027   0.166866   2.631 0.008513 ** 
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> ---
#> R-squared:      -6.4195 
#> Adj. R-squared: -6.5390 
#> Wald chi2(12):  4.4 (p = 0.0000)
#> Root MSE:       1.1676 
#> 
#> Underidentification test (Kleibergen-Paap rk LM statistic):
#>   Chi-sq(2) = 5.90 (p = 0.0524)
#> 
#> Weak identification test:
#>   Cragg-Donald Wald F:           2.72 
#>   Kleibergen-Paap rk Wald F:     2.93 
#>   (Stock-Yogo critical values are for iid errors)
#>   Stock-Yogo critical values (IV size):
#>      10%  maximal IV size       19.93 
#>      15%  maximal IV size       11.59 
#>      20%  maximal IV size       8.75 
#>      25%  maximal IV size       7.25 
#> 
#> Overidentification test (Hansen J):
#>   Chi-sq(1) = 1.56 (p = 0.2111)
#> 
#> Weak-instrument-robust inference:
#>   H0: B1=0 and orthogonality conditions are valid
#>   Anderson-Rubin Wald F(2,744) = 46.95 (p < 2.2e-16)
#>   Anderson-Rubin Wald Chi-sq(2) = 95.66 (p < 2.2e-16)
#>   Stock-Wright LM S Chi-sq(2) = 71.33 (p = 0.0000)
#> 
#> Endogeneity test:
#>   Chi-sq(1) = 56.06 (p = 0.0000)
#>   Tested: iq
#> 
#> Redundancy test (LM):
#>   Chi-sq(1) = 0.00 (p = 0.9665)
#>   Tested: mrt
#> 
#> First-stage diagnostics:
#>   Endogenous        F-stat   p-value  Partial R2  Shea PR2      SW F      AP F
#>   iq                  2.93    0.0539      0.0073    0.0073      2.93      2.93
#> 
#> Instrumented:          iq 
#> Included instruments:  s, expr, tenure, rns, smsa, factor(year)67, factor(year)68, factor(year)69, factor(year)70, factor(year)71, factor(year)73 
#> Excluded instruments:  age, mrt 
#>