Re: st: Understanding how to use biprobit to control for endogenous dummy

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Kevin Infante <kinfante@princeton.edu>:
See
http://stata.com/meeting/chicago11/materials/chi11_nichols.pdf
and always estimate the linear model too,
with e.g. -ivreg2- on SSC,
to get a sense of instrument strength etc.
The linear model is much easier to interpret, most of the time.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Kevin Infante <kinfante@princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hello statalist,
>
> I'm an undergraduate senior Economics major. I have a basic
> understanding of econometrics
> and a basic understanding of Stata. Unfortunately, the models I
> apparently need to run demand a more in-depth understanding of both.
> Here is one of my regressions:
>
> y1=a*y2+b*w+u1   (1)
> y2=c*z+d*w+u2     (2)
>
> y1=dummy representing whether a respondent voted
> y2= endogenous dummy representing whether a respondent lists Internet news as
> their main news source
> w=collection of demographic controls, as well as dummies for the year
> and state of residence of the respondent
> z= a collection of instrument variables
> u1=error term of equation (1)
> u2= error term of equation (2)
>
>  From all I have read on this list, -biprobit- is the stata command
> that is best suited to deal with an endogenous dummy variable in a
> discrete choice model.
>
>  I've run my models using biprobit, and successfully gotten output.
> The first problem I have is I don't know how to interpret the output.
> I gather that rho is important, but I don't know what rho is or what
> it measures. The coefficient on rho is -.55, and the SE is .055. I'm
> assuming the likelihood-ratio test of rho=0 is also important, which
> indicates p>chi2=0.0000. I again have no idea what that means. Lastly,
> I'm not sure what coefficients on the variables I should be looking
> at.
>
> From reading different message threads from the archives, I gather I
> may need to impose additional restrictions, specifically a coherency
> restriction and an exclusions restrictions. Unfortunately, I again
> have no idea what those are. I have checked out both Greene(2003) and
> Maddala(1983), and read the sections that relate to this analysis,
> butI understand very little of it, as the econometrics is much more
> advanced than what I've been exposed to.
>
> If anyone could help explain to me relatively simply how to interpret
> the biprobit output, whether I need additional restrictions and why,
> and just some of the basic theory behind what I am trying to do, I
> would much appreciate it. Also if anyone has any references or sources
> that would help me learn about what I'm doing, that would be very
> useful. My faculty adviser and the resident Stata expert were both not
> able to help me much as both were unfamiliar with the theory and stata
> command. Thank you for all your help!
>
> Best,
> Kevin Infante

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