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Cross-sectional data on 753 married white women from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1975. Of these, 428 were working (inlf == 1) with observed wages. Used by Mroz (1987) to study married women's labor force participation and hours of work. A classic IV application instruments education with parental education (motheduc, fatheduc).

Usage

mroz

Format

A data frame with 753 observations and 22 variables:

inlf

In the labor force in 1975 (binary).

hours

Hours worked in 1975.

kidslt6

Number of children younger than 6.

kidsge6

Number of children aged 6–18.

age

Age in years.

educ

Years of education.

wage

Estimated hourly wage (1975 dollars).

repwage

Reported hourly wage at interview (1976).

hushrs

Husband's hours worked in 1975.

husage

Husband's age.

huseduc

Husband's years of education.

huswage

Husband's hourly wage (1975 dollars).

faminc

Family income (1975 dollars).

mtr

Federal marginal tax rate facing the woman.

motheduc

Mother's years of education.

fatheduc

Father's years of education.

unem

Unemployment rate in county of residence.

city

Lives in SMSA (binary).

exper

Years of labor market experience.

nwifeinc

Non-wife household income (faminc - wage * hours, in thousands of 1975 dollars).

lwage

Log estimated hourly wage.

expersq

Experience squared (exper^2).

Source

Mroz, T.A. (1987). "The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women's Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions." Econometrica, 55(4), 765–799.

Obtained from Stata's bcuse archive (Boston College), bcuse mroz.

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

See also

Examples

data(mroz)
# Restrict to working women (observed wages)
mroz_work <- subset(mroz, inlf == 1)
# IV regression: instrument education with parental education (Example 15.5,
# "Return to Education for Working Women", in Wooldridge (2020),
# Introductory Econometrics).
# These instruments (both parents' education) differ from the specification
# in ?ivreg2, which instruments educ with fatheduc alone (just-identified)
# and with age + kidslt6 + kidsge6 (overidentified).
fit <- ivreg2(lwage ~ exper + expersq | educ | motheduc + fatheduc,
              data = mroz_work)
summary(fit)
#> 
#> 2SLS Estimation
#> 
#> Call:
#> ivreg2(formula = lwage ~ exper + expersq | educ | motheduc + 
#>     fatheduc, data = mroz_work)
#> 
#> Observations: 428 
#> VCV type:     Classical (iid) 
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#>               Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
#> (Intercept)  0.0481003  0.3984530   0.121 0.903915    
#> educ         0.0613966  0.0312895   1.962 0.049737 *  
#> exper        0.0441704  0.0133696   3.304 0.000954 ***
#> expersq     -0.0008990  0.0003998  -2.249 0.024543 *  
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> ---
#> R-squared:      0.1357 
#> Adj. R-squared: 0.1296 
#> Wald chi2(3):  8.1 (p = 0.0000)
#> Root MSE:       0.6716 
#> 
#> Underidentification test (Anderson canon. corr. LM statistic):
#>   Chi-sq(2) = 88.84 (p < 2.2e-16)
#> 
#> Weak identification test:
#>   Cragg-Donald Wald F:           55.40 
#>   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 (Sargan):
#>   Chi-sq(1) = 0.38 (p = 0.5386)
#> 
#> Weak-instrument-robust inference:
#>   H0: B1=0 and orthogonality conditions are valid
#>   Anderson-Rubin Wald F(2,423) = 1.90 (p = 0.1505)
#>   Anderson-Rubin Wald Chi-sq(2) = 3.85 (p = 0.1459)
#>   Stock-Wright LM S Chi-sq(2) = 3.81 (p = 0.1485)
#> 
#> Endogeneity test:
#>   Chi-sq(1) = 2.81 (p = 0.0938)
#>   Tested: educ
#> 
#> First-stage diagnostics:
#>   Endogenous        F-stat   p-value  Partial R2  Shea PR2      SW F      AP F
#>   educ               55.40    0.0000      0.2076    0.2076     55.40     55.40
#> 
#> Instrumented:          educ 
#> Included instruments:  exper, expersq 
#> Excluded instruments:  motheduc, fatheduc 
#>