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RE: st: Egen for logit regression
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Egen for logit regression
Date
Wed, 7 Apr 2010 05:52:47 -0700 (PDT)
--- muhammed abdul khalid wrote:
> I have a question regarding my logit regression:
> logit wealth lgearnings i.ethnic i.strata i.occupation i.edu age
-logit- is for binary data, while a variable like wealth is typically
not binary. Why did you choose -logit-?
> How do i take into account that the effect on wealth because some ethnic
> group has more PREVIOUS wealth vs the others? My data is panel data of
> only one year, so i cant compare with the previous years. I would like
> to check the the premium on ethnicity IF everyone starts with same
> wealth. Currently in my data , of which the age starts at 20, there is
> positive wealth for ome obs (which i suspect due to inheritance).
Maybe you can look at change in wealth rather than wealth per se.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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