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st: RE: ivprobit is adding extra instruments


From   "Schaffer, Mark E" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: ivprobit is adding extra instruments
Date   Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:28:01 -0000

Sarah,

It's not a "problem" at all.  In econometrics, the term "instrument" is often used to designate an exogenous variable, whether it is included as a regressor or not.

--Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Sarah Alkenbrack
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: ivprobit is adding extra instruments
> 
> Hi Stata users,
> 
> I am running -ivprobit- to look at the determinants of enrolment in
> health insurance (cbhi). I have several exogenous regressors and one
> endogenous regressor (consumption).
> I am using wealthindex as an intrumental variable for consumption.
> However, when I run the ivprobit model all my exogenous regressors
> appear in the "instruments" list. Could someone please
> tell me how to prevent this from happening? I am copying the stata
> code and results below. I noticed in the archives that others have had
> this problem but so far, I have not seen any answers
> posted on what might be causing this problem or how to correct it.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> Sarah
> 
> . # delimit;
> delimiter now ;
> . ivprobit cbhi age_hhead age2 edu_hh2 edu_hh3 edu_hh4 edu_hh5 mar_hh
> hhmem_cat2 hhmem_cat3
> > hhhealth_poor hh_chronic hh_diffic risk pregnancy wra 
> any_oldmem j_hh2 j_hh3 j_hh4
> > hlthseek_mod campaign qual_percep urban door_to_door chief_mem
> > pharm_in_vil drugsel_in_vil hlthcent_in_vil privclin_in_vil 
> young edu_chief num_camp_vill home_collection
> > qual2 qual3 size_ln name_hosp1 name_hosp3 name_hosp4 
> name_hosp5 name_hosp6 (cons_pcm=wealthindex) ;
> 
> Fitting exogenous probit model
> 
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -1909.5425
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood =  -1687.946
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood = -1681.6413
> Iteration 3:   log likelihood = -1681.6142
> Iteration 4:   log likelihood = -1681.6142
> 
> Fitting full model
> 
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -42769.776
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood = -42766.676
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood = -42736.028
> Iteration 3:   log likelihood = -42734.629
> Iteration 4:   log likelihood = -42734.269
> Iteration 5:   log likelihood = -42734.266
> Iteration 6:   log likelihood = -42734.266
> 
> Probit model with endogenous regressors           Number of 
> obs   =       3000
> 
>                     Wald chi2(42)   =    1113.82
> Log likelihood = -42734.266                       Prob > chi2 
>     =     0.0000
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
>              |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     
> [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
>     cons_pcm |   3.59e-06   2.15e-07    16.68   0.000     
> 3.17e-06    4.01e-06
>    age_hhead |   .0320042   .0129973     2.46   0.014       
> .00653    .0574784
>         age2 |  -.0001774   .0001228    -1.45   0.148    
> -.0004181    .0000632
>      edu_hh2 |    .051426   .0879334     0.58   0.559    
> -.1209203    .2237723
>      edu_hh3 |  -.0075595   .1023748    -0.07   0.941    
> -.2082106    .1930915
>      edu_hh4 |   -.000683   .1285689    -0.01   0.996    
> -.2526735    .2513075
>      edu_hh5 |  -.2986249   .1713749    -1.74   0.081    
> -.6345136    .0372638
>       mar_hh |  -.0539035    .067056    -0.80   0.421    
> -.1853308    .0775237
>   hhmem_cat2 |   .4222092   .0675468     6.25   0.000     
> .2898198    .5545985
>   hhmem_cat3 |   .7099401   .0822271     8.63   0.000     
> .5487778    .8711023
> hhhealth_p~r |   .1550617   .0699122     2.22   0.027     
> .0180362    .2920872
>   hh_chronic |    .159681   .0718297     2.22   0.026     
> .0188973    .3004647
>    hh_diffic |   .2613713   .0741209     3.53   0.000      
> .116097    .4066456
>         risk |  -.0482252   .0467953    -1.03   0.303    
> -.1399423    .0434919
>    pregnancy |   .1200344   .1214774     0.99   0.323    
> -.1180569    .3581257
>          wra |   .1033809   .0289192     3.57   0.000     
> .0467004    .1600614
>   any_oldmem |   .0792428   .0680778     1.16   0.244    
> -.0541872    .2126729
>        j_hh2 |   .0512404   .0815692     0.63   0.530    
> -.1086323     .211113
>        j_hh3 |   -.349126   .0806268    -4.33   0.000    
> -.5071516   -.1911004
>        j_hh4 |   .1928496   .0843208     2.29   0.022     
> .0275838    .3581154
> hlthseek_mod |  -.0359996   .0969011    -0.37   0.710    
> -.2259223     .153923
>     campaign |   .5068671   .0781293     6.49   0.000     
> .3537365    .6599977
>  qual_percep |   .1840314   .0514758     3.58   0.000     
> .0831408    .2849221
>        urban |  -.0999875   .0590944    -1.69   0.091    
> -.2158103    .0158353
> door_to_door |   .0564977   .0719369     0.79   0.432     
> -.084496    .1974914
>    chief_mem |   .0811248   .0599964     1.35   0.176     
> -.036466    .1987156
> pharm_in_vil |   .0269211   .0582651     0.46   0.644    
> -.0872763    .1411185
> drugsel_in~l |   .0693485   .0586169     1.18   0.237    
> -.0455385    .1842355
> hlthcent_i~l |   .0089279   .0823509     0.11   0.914    
> -.1524769    .1703327
> privclin_i~l |  -.0547559   .0857815    -0.64   0.523    
> -.2228846    .1133728
>        young |   .0899074   .0715818     1.26   0.209    
> -.0503903    .2302051
>    edu_chief |  -.0888131   .0528856    -1.68   0.093    
> -.1924671    .0148408
> num_camp_v~l |   .0655667   .0548026     1.20   0.232    
> -.0418444    .1729779
> home_colle~n |   .1944581   .0606159     3.21   0.001     
> .0756531    .3132631
>        qual2 |  -.1778623   .0896638    -1.98   0.047    
> -.3536001   -.0021245
>        qual3 |  -.2049839   .1081036    -1.90   0.058     
> -.416863    .0068952
>      size_ln |  -.0059746    .042326    -0.14   0.888    
> -.0889321    .0769829
>   name_hosp1 |   .1476783   .1168295     1.26   0.206    
> -.0813032    .3766598
>   name_hosp3 |    .536909   .1350044     3.98   0.000     
> .2723053    .8015128
>   name_hosp4 |   .4347936   .1069197     4.07   0.000     
> .2252348    .6443523
>   name_hosp5 |    .228802   .1274495     1.80   0.073    
> -.0209945    .4785985
>   name_hosp6 |   .9189969   .1301651     7.06   0.000     
> .6638779    1.174116
>        _cons |   -4.82205   .4438201   -10.86   0.000    
> -5.691922   -3.952179
> -------------+------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
>      /athrho |  -.8556093   .0998439    -8.57   0.000      
> -1.0513   -.6599188
>     /lnsigma |   12.27712     .01291   950.98   0.000     
> 12.25181    12.30242
> -------------+------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
>          rho |  -.6939885   .0517571                     
> -.7823111   -.5783094
>        sigma |   214725.5   2772.097                      
> 209360.5    220228.1
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> Instrumented:  cons_pcm
> Instruments:   age_hhead age2 edu_hh2 edu_hh3 edu_hh4 edu_hh5 mar_hh
>                hhmem_cat2 hhmem_cat3 hhhealth_poor hh_chronic 
> hh_diffic risk
>                pregnancy wra any_oldmem j_hh2 j_hh3 j_hh4 hlthseek_mod
>                campaign qual_percep urban door_to_door chief_mem
>                pharm_in_vil drugsel_in_vil hlthcent_in_vil 
> privclin_in_vil
>                young edu_chief num_camp_vill home_collection 
> qual2 qual3
>                size_ln name_hosp1 name_hosp3 name_hosp4 name_hosp5
>                name_hosp6 wealthindex
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> Wald test of exogeneity (/athrho = 0): chi2(1) =    73.44 
> Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
> 
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