Thank You Dr. Martin
Well I did make the changes and got my program to do most of what I
really wanted to do - except for a few problems. Below is the program
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Example---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
global numobs 500 // sample size N
global numsims "1000" // number of simulations
set seed 123456789
capture program drop endoprob
program endoprob, rclass
version 10.1
drop _all
set obs $numobs
generate u = rnormal(0)
generate mu = rnormal(0)
generate x1 = rnormal(0)
generate z1 = rnormal(0) // 4 Instruements
generate z2 = rnormal(0)
generate z3 = rnormal(0)
generate z4 = rnormal(0)
// Also be written *drawnorm u mu x1 z1 z2 z3 z4
generate a = 0.5*u
generate x2 = z1 + z2 + z3 + z4 + a
regress x2 z1 z2 z3 z4 mu // endogenous regressor
with four instruments
predict px2
generate y = 0.5 + 2*x1 + px2 + mu + u>4 //Reduced Form Equation
ivprobit y x1 px2
return scalar b2 = _b[x1]
return scalar b3 = _b[x2hat]
return scalar se2 = _se[x1]
return scalar se3 = _b[x2hat]
end
simulate b2=r(b2) b3=r(b3) se2r=r(se2) se3r=r(se3), ///
reps($numsims): endoprob
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Every time I run the program, there is an error suggesting that there
is no endogenous variable and that I need to use just probit. This
totally negates the point of doing my simulation. Did I specify the
program wrong in some way? and if so what I can do to mend it?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you
Sachin
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