Practical Assignment for Econometrics
Mark = 50 %( 20% presentation + 30% content of the assignment); Instructor: Eshetu S. (PhD)
Given: Average hourly earnings =(years of experience, years of education, gender 1 if female,
marital status 1 if married, years with current employer =tenure)___________Group 3
reg wage educ exper female married tenure
Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 526
-------------+---------------------------------- F(5, 520) = 60.61
Model | 2636.38356 5 527.276713 Prob > F = 0.0000
Residual | 4524.03073 520 8.70005909 R-squared = 0.3682
-------------+---------------------------------- Adj R-squared = 0.3621
Total | 7160.41429 525 13.6388844 Root MSE = 2.9496
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wage | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
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educ | .5556838 .0498647 11.14 0.000 .4577228 .6536447
exper | .0187449 .0120289 1.56 0.120 -.0048863 .0423762
female | -1.741397 .2664871 -6.53 0.000 -2.264921 -1.217873
married | .5592403 .2859483 1.96 0.051 -.0025156 1.120996
tenure | .1387816 .0211351 6.57 0.000 .0972608 .1803024
_cons | -1.618152 .7230508 -2.24 0.026 -3.038611 -.197692
vif
Variable | VIF 1/VIF
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exper | 1.61 0.621744
tenure | 1.41 0.710790
married | 1.18 0.849016
educ | 1.15 0.869209
female | 1.07 0.933264
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Mean VIF | 1.28
hettest
Breusch-Pagan / Cook-Weisberg test for heteroskedasticity
Ho: Constant variance
Variables: fitted values of wage
chi2(1) = 139.71
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
ovtest
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of wage
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 517) = 10.17
Prob > F = 0.0000
Tasks:
1. Checking model fit
2. Checking the significance of individual variables (using t-test)
3. Check Multicollinearity
4. Check Heteroscedasticity
5. Check Omission of important variables
6. 7. Interpret the significant variables after solving problems (heto, multi and omission) if any