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Re: st: ivtobit and limited dependent endogenous variable
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, feldman wrote:
Hi,
I know that ivtobit works well with a dummy endogenous
variable but I am not sure if
Is it ok to use ivtobit when the endogenous variable is a
limited dependent variable? More precisely suppose that for
30% of the sample the endogenous variable takes the value 0
and for the rest it has a positive value (the distribution
of zeros in the endogenous variable is different to the
distribution of zeros in the dependent variable).
Both -ivprobit- and -ivtobit- are for use when the endogenous variable is
*continuous*. As Wooldridge (2002, p. 472) emphasizes, the error terms
for the structural equation and the equation for the endogenous regressor
are assumed to be distributed bivariate normal, which implies that the
endogenous regressor should have features of a normal distribution.
-- Brian Poi
[email protected]
Wooldridge, J. M. (2002). Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel
Data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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