{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "74251d3d", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Card (1993): Using geographic variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling\n", "\n", "Card (1993) estimates the causal effect of length of education on hourly wages.\n", "Their dataset is based on a 1976 subsample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men and contains 3010 observations.\n", "It includes years of education obtained by 1976 (``ed76``), log hourly wages in 1976 (``lwage76``), age in 1976 (``age76``), and indicators of whether the individual lived close to a public four-year college (`nearc4a`), a private four-year college (`nearc4b`), or a two-year college in 1966 (`nearc2`).\n", "The dataset also contains variables or indicators on race, metropolitan area, region (summarized in `indicators`), and family background (summarized in `family`).\n", "Card (1993) defines (potential) experience `exp76` as `age76` - `ed76` - 6.\n", "\n", "Card (1993) reports estimates of the causal effect on education on log wages for multiple specifications.\n", "We focus on their specification where experience and experience squared are included as endogenous regressors and variables or indicators on race, metropolitan area, region, and family background are included as exogenous regressors.\n", "Whereas Card uses age and age squared to instrument for experience and experience squared, we simply include these as additional instruments.\n", "We also include all three college proximity indicators as instruments, instead of aggregating `nearc4a` and `nearc4b` into a single instrument." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "id": "08ab71f4", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "
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| 3 | \n", "12 | \n", "9 | \n", "81 | \n", "6.175867 | \n", "0 | \n", "0 | \n", "0 | \n", "27 | \n", "729 | \n", "
| 4 | \n", "12 | \n", "16 | \n", "256 | \n", "6.580639 | \n", "0 | \n", "0 | \n", "0 | \n", "34 | \n", "1156 | \n", "
| 5 | \n", "11 | \n", "10 | \n", "100 | \n", "5.521461 | \n", "1 | \n", "0 | \n", "1 | \n", "27 | \n", "729 | \n", "
| 6 | \n", "12 | \n", "16 | \n", "256 | \n", "6.591674 | \n", "1 | \n", "0 | \n", "1 | \n", "34 | \n", "1156 | \n", "