Dear Stata users,
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Bear me if this question is somewhat long.
I have a model of a child's outcome (Y) which is determined by
time-invariant exogenous charactersitics (X) and years of childhood
welfare (W) and mother's work experiences (E):
Y = f(X) + gamma_1*W + gamma_2*E + gamma_3*f(X)*W +
gamma_4*f(X)*E + epsilon,
where f(X)=X'b is a linear combination of X. Since X is
time-invariant, people in the literature typically use it as a measure
of initial ability. In my model, marginal productivity of a mother's
decisions depend on child's initial ability. So, for example, dY/dW =
gamma_1 + gamma_3* f(X).
Given that the mother's deicisions, W and E, may be correlated with
her child's unobserved characteristics, I find a set of IV (Z) for W
and E.
The problem is this model is nonlinear in parameters (b, gamma). As a
result, I can't use standard IV method. Given a (somewhat) detailed
search, I realize Stata doesn't have a command for nonlinear IV
estimation. So the first question is, does anyone know if Stata has
one (I know from Stata archive that EViews has it).
What I figure I can do in Stata is a 3-stage type of method, where I
use -nlsur- to specify three equations: first one is the child's
attainments equation; the other two are linear projections of W and E
on (X and Z).
I want to ask if a nonlinear 3-stage approach like this behave
differently than typical 3-stage linear approach?
Thanks a lot!
Hau
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