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1 B203: Quantitative Methods Answer all questions from part I. Answer two question from part II.a, and one question from part II.b. Part I: Compulsory Questions. Answer all questions. Each question carries 4 marks. [1] If H denotes a hypothesis and A denotes an event or data, explain the difference and the connection between the probabilities P (A H) and P (H A). Would the finding that P (A H) < 0.05 be good reason to reject H? Illustrate your answer with an example. [2] Write down the mathematical form of a probability density function which could be used to model the distribution of wealth in a country. Discuss its features in terms of mode, mean and skewness. How would the shape of its graph differ between developed and developing countries? [3] A friend argues that in the presence of heteroscedasticity, the only way to obtain unbiased parameter estimates is to use Weighted Least Squares. Do you agree? Give details. [4] In the model y i = α 0 + α 1 x i + α 2 z i + u i, where E(u i z i, x i ) = 0, you are interested in estimating the parameter α 1. Unfortunately, you do not observe z i. Explain under what assumptions a regression of y i on x i only gives you an unbiased estimate for α 1. [5] In the regression y i = β 0 + β 1 x i + e i
2 you have reason to believe that x i is correlated with the error term e i. You observe a variable z i which you would like to use as an instrument for x i. What are the two conditions under which Instrumental Variable estimation, using z i as an instrument, gives you a consistent parameter estimate for β 1? Can you test these assumptions (and how)? [6] You regress log wages on education (ed), work experience in full time jobs (full), and work experience in part time jobs (part). The following are your results: Source SS df MS Number of obs = F( 3, 5861) = Model Prob > F = Residual R-squared = Adj R-squared = Total Root MSE =.3381 lnwage Coef. Std. Err. t P> t [95% Conf. Interval] ed full part _cons You would like to test the hypothesis that part time experience and full time experience have the same effect on log wages. Test this hypothesis, using a t-test (the covariance between the parameter estimates on the variables full and part is ). [7] Briefly discuss three problems associated with estimating a model with a discrete 0-1 dependent variable by ordinary least squares. [8] Give two advantages of using panel data as compared to cross-sectional data. 2
3 Part II a Answer 2 questions from this section. Each question carries 23 marks. [1] Consider the following model: y i = α 0 + α 1 x i + u i, where E(u i x i ) = 0, Cov(u i, u j ) = 0 for i j, but V ar(u i ) = σ 2 i you wish to estimate the parameters α 0 and α 1. σ 2. Suppose (a) Is the Least Squares estimator for α 1 (i) unbiased (ii) efficient? Can you use the standard errors you obtain from Least Squares for hypothesis testing? (b) Suppose you expect the variance of the error term u i, σi 2, to be related to the variable x i as follows: exp(σ 2 i ) = γ 0 x γ 1 i e v i, where v i is an error term, uncorrelated with x i. Explain in detail how you would estimate your model, using Weighted Least Squares Estimation. (c) Suppose now that the way you have specified the relationship between σi 2 and x i is wrong. Does the Weighted Least Squares estimator still give you unbiased estimates for α 1? Give details. (d) A friend of yours argues that, if you use weighted least squares, the coefficient of determination R 2 is still an appropriate measure to assess the fit of the model. Do you agree? Explain. Can you convince your friend of the opposite, using a simple example? 3
4 [2] Consider the following log wage equation, which you estimate separately for public and private sector workers: lnw i = α j 0 + α j 1ed i + α j 2ex i + u i, where i is an index for individuals, and j is an index for the sector (j = P ublic or j = P rivate). Furthermore, lnw i is the log of hourly wages, ed i is number of years of education, and ex i is labour market experience. Finally, u i is an error term, assumed to be uncorrelated with the regressors, not autocorrelated, and homoscedastic. Suppose that you obtain the following regression results for all workers, and public and private sector workers: ALL WORKERS:. regress lnwage ed ex Source SS df MS Number of obs = F( 2, 5862) = Model Prob > F = Residual R-squared = Adj R-squared = Total Root MSE = lnwage Coef. Std. Err. t P> t [95% Conf. Interval] ed ex _cons regress lnwage ed ex if pu==1 PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS: Source SS df MS Number of obs = F( 2, 2152) = Model Prob > F = Residual R-squared = Adj R-squared = Total Root MSE = lnwage Coef. Std. Err. t P> t [95% Conf. Interval] ed ex _cons
5 PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS:. regress lnwage ed ex if pu==0 Source SS df MS Number of obs = F( 2, 3707) = Model Prob > F = Residual R-squared = Adj R-squared = Total Root MSE = lnwage Coef. Std. Err. t P> t [95% Conf. Interval] ed ex _cons (a) Interpret the coefficient estimates. Comment on the R 2, and the difference between public and private sector regressions. (b) For private sector workers, your STATA output does not report the 95% confidence intervals. Compute the 95% confidence intervals for the parameter estimates for education and labour market experience. Compare confidence intervals for education for public and private sector workers. If you assume that the coefficient estimates are independent, would you reject the hypothesis that returns to education are the same for the two groups (at the 5 percent level of significance)? (c) Test the the null hypothesis that the parameters α 0, α 1 and α 2 differ between public and private sector workers. (d) The means of log wages, education, and labour market experience are given by -> pu= 0 Variable Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ed ex lnwage > pu= 1 Variable Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ed ex lnwage
6 Compute the mean log wage differential, and decompose it into a part which is due to differences in parameter estimates, and a part which is due to differences in the means of the explanatory variables. 6
7 [3] Suppose you work in a large consultancy company on a government funded project which is aimed to assess whether there should be more government spending for sport facilities. The argument supporters of increased spending have brought forward is that doing sports enhances productivity. Their claims are based on a research project, where the wages of individuals (which in a competitive market should correspond to their productivity) are regressed on a number of variables like education and work experience, and on a binary indicator, being equal to one if the individual reports to do sports at least once a week, and zero otherwise. The following table reports results from their regressions (where ed is education in years, and ex and ex2 are work experience and its square; sport is a dummy variable, being one if the individual does sports at least once a week):. regress lnwage ed ex ex2 sport Source SS df MS Number of obs = F( 4, 8745) = Model Prob > F = Residual R-squared= Adj R-squared = Total Root MSE = lnwage Coef. Std. Err. t P> t [95% Conf. Interval] ed ex ex sports _cons (a) Interpret the coefficient on the sports variable. (b) Do you think it is correct to conclude from these regressions that sports enhances productivity (and wages)? Give reasons why the variable Sports could be endogenous in the wage regression, and explain. (c) Based on your reason(s) given for a possible endogeneity of the variable sports, are the estimates in the table likely to be over estimates or under estimates of the true parameter? 7
8 (d) A good friend recommends to use instrumental variable estimation to estimate the model, and she proposes the degree of physical disability as an instrument, which you observe in your data. Do you agree? Do you think that the proposed variable is a valid instrument? Explain in detail. 8
9 [4] You have a sample of workers who are either self employed or in salaried employment, and you run earnings regressions. The first 2 columns of table 1 report estimated coefficients and standard errors from a regression of log monthly earnings on years of education, years of labour market experience, and a dummy variable, which is equal to one if the individual is self employed. Columns 3 and 4 report results, adding interaction terms between self employment, and education and experience. Columns 5 and 6 add a dummy to the specification in columns 1 and 2, which is one if the the individual works in the public sector. Table 1: Earnings Regressions; Dep. Variable: Log Monthly Earnings Specification 1 Specification 2 Specification 3 Variable Coeff StdError Coeff StdError Coeff StdError Years Education Years Work Experience Self Employed Years Work Experience Self Employed Years Education Self Employed Public Sector worker Constant R 2 regression in columns 1: R 2 regression in columns 2: R 2 regression in columns 3: Number of observations: (a) Interpret the estimation results for the specification in columns 1,2. Test the null hypothesis that the difference in average log earnings between self employed and salaried workers is 0.2. (b) Using the results for specification 2 in the table, test the hypotheses that log earnings of the self employed grow faster with education than log earnings of salaried workers. Draw the log earnings-experience profiles for a salaried and a self employed worker for both specifications 1 and 2. Why does the coefficient on the dummy variable for the self employed differ between the two specifications? 9
10 (c) Specification 3 is the same as specification 1, but an additional dummy variable is added which is equal to one if the individual works in the public sector, and zero otherwise. Only salaried workers can work in the public sector. Interpret the coefficients on the two dummy variables. How would you test the hypothesis that log earnings of salaried workers in the private sector grow slower with labour market experience than log earnings of workers in the public sector? (d) In log earnings regressions, the coefficient on dummy variables are sometimes interpreted as percentage differences in the dependent variable for the groups for which the dummy variable is zero and one respectively. Explain why this interpretation may be justified. For specification 1, compute the exact percentage difference in log earnings between self employed and salaried workers. 10
11 Part II b Answer 1 question from this section. Each question carries 22 marks. [5] (a) What are the consequences of estimating a model with autocorrelated errors by ordinary least squares. (b) Give two examples of situations where you think an economic application may have serious autocorrelation problems. (c) Describe the Durbin-Watson test for autocorrelation. Explain how you would would transform a regression model to deal with an AR(1) error process? In what circumstances would such a procedure be inappropriate? Describe what test you would use in these circumstances. (d) You estimate the following autoregression for y based on monthly data between 1981 and 1990 (all months in all years, standard errors in brackets). ŷ t = y t y t 2 (0.004) (0.089) (0.067) Sample size = 120, Residual sum of squares = You then add in a set of month dummy variables and obtain the following ŷ t = y t y t 2 + month (0.008) (0.122) (0.070) dummies Sample size = 120, Residual sum of squares = Carry out a test of the null hypothesis that the month dummies are jointly insignificant (note: there is a constant in the original equation). 11
12 [6] Suppose you have (balanced) panel data on N individuals observed in T time periods and you specify the following panel data model for individual i in year t Y it = a i + βx it + u it, i = 1, 2...N, t = 1, 2,...T, where Y is the dependent variable of interest, X is a set of exogenous independent variables and u a random error. (a) How would you interpret the a i parameters in this model? Use some relevant economic examples in your discussion. (b) If N is large explain how you would estimate the above model. (c) Explain how you would test the hypothesis that a i = a (a constant). Suppose you could not reject this hypothesis. What interpretation would place on this finding? (d) Instead of estimating the above equation suppose you wished to estimate the following dynamic panel data model: Y it = a i + γy i,t 1 + u it, i = 1, 2...N, t = 1, 2,...T. What complications does the presence of the lagged dependent variable generate? (e) Explain how you would estimate this dynamic panel data model. 12
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