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Re: st: Tobit and Cluster (was Marginal Effects after ivtobit)


From   "Brian P. Poi" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Tobit and Cluster (was Marginal Effects after ivtobit)
Date   Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:40:52 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman wrote:

Thanks for the clarification Brian.

I have an additional question why is the cluster option available for
ivtobit but not for tobit?  I know that if there is heteroskedasticity tobit
will produce estimators that are inconsistent and cluster only takes care of
the problem in the standard errors.  But what if I have say a panel of two
years and I am doing pooled tobit and I want to use cluster to account for
the fact that the observations are repeated twice? I think that will be an
instance where cluster in tobit is valid. So far I have been using intreg
which allows for cluster but it will be easier if tobit had that option.
Anyway, I was wondering why the option is not available for tobit but it is
for ivtobit.
Alejandro,

In principle there is nothing wrong with cluster-robust standard errors with tobit.

-ivtobit- and -intreg- are written in ado code and use Stata's -ml- commands, which makes adding the cluster() option very easy to do. -tobit- is an older command written in C, and we have not implemented the cluster() option with it.

-- Brian
-- [email protected]

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