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| From | Jet <lsj555@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: model specification |
| Date | Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:24:27 -0500 |
Hello, we have a model specification question and would appreciate any suggestions. If the outcome measures the college graduates' debt burden (ratio of monthly loan payment to monthly income), and we'd like to see what factors predict their debt burden a couple of years after graduation. Does it make sense to include financial aid variables (grants, merit aid, loans they received during undergrad) as predictors, given that they are a part of the outcome? Would it raise any endogeneity issue? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/