tsls.wfit {icsw}

Fit instrumental variables model via two-stage least squares, with weights.

Description

Fits linear first- and second-stage models using weighted linear regression.

Usage

tsls.wfit(X, Y, Z, weights, ...)

Arguments

X

Matrix of covariates and treatment, including constant if intercept is desired.

Y

Vector outcome.

Z

Matrix of covariates and instrument, including constant if intercept is desired.

weights

Observation weights.

...

Additional arguments to lm.wfit.

Value

A list with the second stage model fit, as returned by lm.wfit.

Author(s)

Peter Aronow <[e-mail]>, Dean Eckles <[e-mail]>, Kyle Peyton <[e-mail]>

References

Peter M. Aronow and Allison Carnegie. (2013). Beyond LATE: Estimation of the average treatment effect with an instrumental variable. Political Analysis.

See Also

lm.wfit.

compliance.score for calculating compliance scores used in example.

Examples

# Load example dataset, see help(FoxDebate) for details
data(FoxDebate)

# Estimate compliance scores with covariates, assuming (default) 
#   case of two-sided non-compliance.
covmat <- with(FoxDebate, cbind(partyid, pnintst, watchnat, educad, readnews, gender, 
                                income, white))

cscoreout <- with(FoxDebate, compliance.score(D = watchpro, Z = conditn,
                              W = covmat))

# Extract vector of estimated compliance scores
cscore <- cscoreout$C.score

# Winsorising as described in Aronow and Carnegie (2013)
N <- length(FoxDebate[, "infopro"])
alpha <- 0.275
qcscore <- quantile(cscore, 1 / (N^alpha))
cscore[cscore < qcscore] <- qcscore

# IPW reweighting step Aronow and Carnegie (2013) use for missing data
Ymis <- is.na(FoxDebate[,"infopro"])

IPWweight <- 1 / (1 - predict(glm(Ymis ~ covmat, family = binomial(link = "probit")), 
                              type = "response"))
IPWweight[Ymis] <- 0

# Compute LATE via 2SLS with IPW weights. This replicates 
#   Table 2 Column 1 in Aronow and Carnegie (2013)
outputTSLS <- with(FoxDebate, tsls.wfit(X = cbind(1, covmat, watchpro), Y = infopro, 
                        Z = cbind(1, covmat, conditn), weights = IPWweight))
round(outputTSLS$coefficients, 2)

# Compute ATE via 2SLS with (IPW weights / compliance scores). This
#   replicates Table 2 Column 2 in Aronow and Carnegie (2013)
outputICSW <- with(FoxDebate, tsls.wfit(cbind(1, watchpro, covmat), infopro, 
                        cbind(1, conditn, covmat), w = IPWweight / cscore))
round(outputICSW$coefficients, 2)