re: Re: st: MIXLOGIT: marginal effects

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 03:22 PM 2/8/2012, Christopher Baum wrote:
> <>
> Clive said
>
> However, both of you, IMVHO, are wrong, wrong, wrong about the linear
> probability model. There is no justification for the use of this model
> _at all_ when regressing a binary dependent variable on a set of
> regressors. Pampel's (2000) excellent introduction on logistic
> regression spent the first nine or so pages carefully explaining just
> why it is inappropriate (imposing linearity on a nonlinear
> relationship; predicting values out of range; nonadditivity; etc).
> Since when was it in vogue to advocate its usage? I'm afraid that I
> don't really understand this.
>
>
> I don't understand it either, and I agree wholeheartedly with the 
> sentiment. The undergrad textbook from which I teach Econometrics,
> Jeff Wooldridge's excellent book, has a section on the LPM; I skip 
> it and tell students to stay away from it. Unfortunately, much of the
> buzz about the usefulness of the LPM has arisen from the 
> otherwise-excellent book by Angrist and Pischke, Mostly Harmless
> Econometrics, in which they make strong arguments for the use of the 
> LPM as an alternative to logistic regression.
I was wondering where this support for the LPM was coming from! 
However, when you compare LPM with Logit/AMEs, my experience is the 
AMEs are often similar to the LPM estimates, at least if the model 
isn't too complicated. Perhaps that is the basis of the argument for 
those who say if you are going to use marginal effects after logit, 
you might as well use LPM?
> One of my econometrician colleagues has come up with a nifty example 
> of how, in a very simple context involving a LPM with
> a binary treatment indicator, the LPM gets the sign wrong! A 
> logistic regression, even though it fails to deal with any further issues
> regarding the treatment variable, gets the right sign.
Is this a shareable example? I would love to see it.


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