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Re: st: Instrumental Variables approach using -xt- for three-level growth model


From   Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Instrumental Variables approach using -xt- for three-level growth model
Date   Mon, 6 May 2013 10:18:40 -0400

David Torres <[email protected]>
You don't specify, but I assume you have 5 plausible values drawn from
a posterior distribution on achievement from some standardized test as
your outcome variable, and school type attended as your explanatory
variable of interest--none of the variables you cite satisfy an
exclusion restriction, as all would be expected to have direct impacts
on achievement.  If you do in fact have 5 plausible values as your
outcome measure, you should not be using -xtmixed- IMHO but perhaps
-mi- since these are 5 imputations for one observation, not 5
observations.  If you have 5 plausible values at two points in time,
you now have 25 imputations, and so on. You should get similar results
if you just average across the 5 imputations, but no identical of
course.  The more important challenge is finding good instruments for
school type attended. Do you know where people live relative to the
boundary of the "zoned school area" so you can compute that distance
precisely? Do boundaries change over time?

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:57 PM, David Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, all,
>
> I would like to utilize the instrumental variables approach with hierarchical data that has repeated measures (five) of students nested within schools.  I'd prefer to do this in HLM7, but I'm not sure if the program allows for this more complex model setup.  Anyway, I know Stata has the -xtivreg- command.  Is there something similar for mixed effects models, i.e., -xtivmixed- perhaps?  If not, how can I accomplish my aim using what's available in Stata.  (I do have the Rabe-Hesketh & Skrondal texts.)
>
> I am instrumenting for the likelihood of parents exercising choice to send their children to a school outside the zoned school area.  Obviously, self-selection is an issue here, but proxies that might explain the likelihood of choice are, and this list is by no means exhaustive, number of older children in the household, maternal education, or percent of persons over 18 with a bachelor's degree...or something like that.  HELP.

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