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RE: st: St: Ordered Logit Question
At 11:17 PM 5/7/2009, Jason Dean, Mr wrote:
Thanks again Richard it certainly is a
disadvantage to what i am doing. I just want to
be clear I understood you comment correctly. In
my case the DV is how related a person's job is
to thier formal education. So it could be that
my immigrant group maybe has a lower standard of
what an education-related job is compared to the
Canadian-born. Maybe the Canadian-born is more
picky in terms of what they think a related job
is to immigrants. Thus, comparison between these
groups is not really 100% valid. Any advantage
of immigrants, for example, could simply be due
to this different interpretation of the depedent variable?
Is there anyway to tease this out of the data?
Cause I find that the threshold parameters are
much lower for immigrants than the
canadian-born. And in these models means that
their predicated probabilities will be higher
(lower) for the highest (lowest) category. Can
I interpret this as evidence for immigrants just having a lower standard?
I'm not sure how to tease it out of the data --
it may just be an alternative explanation that is
always lurking out there. Some sources you might want to look at:
Adaptation and scale of reference bias in
self-assessments of quality of life. Wim
Groot. Journal of Health Economics 19 2000. 403?420
Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported
health. Maarten Lindeboom, Eddy van
Doorslaer. Journal of Health Economics 23 (2004) 1083?1099
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/documents/wp/05_04.pdf
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/documents/wp/06_03.pdf
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