Dovev,
You can use the espoisson code that performs a FIML estimation of a endogenous switching Poisson model (have a look to Miranda (2004) Stata Journal 4(1):40-49). You could estimate the model with exogenous switching using the exs option. Then estimate the model with endog. switching. Finally, perform a boundary-likelihood ratio test for the sig. of rho. If rho is not significant, then you can treat your dummy as exogenous.
Best,
Alfonso.
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Alfonso Miranda
PhD Student
Economics Department
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
E-mail: [email protected]
WebPage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phd/ecrgw/
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>>> [email protected] 05/13/04 13:56 PM >>>
Dovev,
Quoting "Lavie, Dovev" <[email protected]>:
> Does anyone know how to test for endogeneity in the case where the
> dependent
> variable (y) is a count variable and the endogenous regressor is a
> binary
> variable (z)? (see below). As far as I know, the Durbin-Wu-Hausman
> test
> works only with OLS. Any suggestions on how to determine whether
> variable z
> can be assumed exogenous are most welcome.
I think it's not hard to do in principle, but there's a big "if"
involved. *If* you can estimate the model in two forms, one treating the
regressor z as endogenous, and one treating it as exogenous, then you can
do a Hausman test using the -hausman- command. When estimating the
former, you'll need a procedure that will deliver a valid var-cov matrix
for the estimated coefficients as well as consistent estimates of the
coefficients themselves.
A quick
findit binomial endogenous
didn't turn up anything, so there may not be any such package around for
estimating a negative binomial with an endogenous regressor. But maybe
you've taken care of this requirement.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Mark
> z = a0 + a1*x1 + a2*x2 + epsilon1 (probit model)
>
>
>
> y = b0 + b1*z + b2*x3 + epsilon2 (negative binomial model)
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dovev
>
>
>
>
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