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RE: st: IV est. /w binary endogenous and binary dependent var


From   "Conway, Karen" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: IV est. /w binary endogenous and binary dependent var
Date   Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:57:59 -0500

If both are binary, then I believe that biprobit is the way to go.  See Greene for an excellent discussion -- he clearly states that doing the estimation jointly via bivariate probit 'solves' the endogeneity problem.  ivprobit is best when the endogenous regressor is continuous.  I actually learned this from this list earlier this fall.

Hope this helps.

Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Mark Schaffer
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: IV est. /w binary endogenous and binary dependent var


I had a look at biprobit, too.  The syntax seems compatible with what 
Guido wants to do, e.g.,

biprobit (y = w x1-xn) (w = z x1-xn)

but it wasn't clear to me from a quick perusal of the manual entry 
that biprobit will properly handle the fact that the w that appears 
in the first eqn is the dependent variable in the second.  The help 
file refers to this as a "Seemingly unrelated bivariate probit 
model", which makes me think that it won't do what Guido wants.

Any biprobit experts out there who can clarify this?

--Mark

Date sent:      	Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:07:42 +0100
From:           	jean ries <[email protected]>
To:             	[email protected]
Subject:        	Re: st: IV est. /w binary endogenous and binary dependent var
Send reply to:  	[email protected]

> Guido,
> 
> You should use -biprobit-. I think that -ivprob- is intended to be
> used with a continuous endogenous regressor (please correct me if I am
> wrong). A look at Wooldridge (2002), may be useful (section 15.7.3).
> What he is suggesting looks like -biprobit- to me.
> 
> Reference:
> Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel
> Data, MIT Press, 2002.
> 
> jean
> 
> Guido Heineck wrote:
> 
> > I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint on the following
> > problem: I have a binary dependent variable, a set of covariates
> > plus a binary endogenous regressor for which I have an instrument.
> >
> > Adapting a suggestion for a somewhat similar problem 
> > (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-09/msg00339.html),
> > would anyone please advise me whether the following would be
> > correct:
> >
> > probit w x1-xn z
> > predict ghat
> > ivprob y , endog(w) iv(ghat) exog(x1-xn)
> >
> > where:
> > y ==> binary outcome
> > x1-xn ==> exogenous variables
> > w ==> endogenous binary variable
> > z ==> instrument
> 
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