Re: st: Binary Choice Model and fixed effects - interpreting the interaction effects?

[Benjamin Niug <benjamin.niug@googlemail.com>]

Sorry for the shortcomings of the description of my problem:
@Nick: It is  SJ4-2: st0063;
@Maarten: Norton, Wang, Ai (2004), "Computing interaction effects and
standard errors in logit and probit models", The Stata Journal 4,
Number 2, pp. 154-167.

Besides:
@Maarten: Thanks for the odds ratio hint. Do you know of other
solutions as well?

Am 2. April 2012 12:10 schrieb Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Benjamin Niug wrote:
>> I want to estimate a binary choice model accunting for time-invariant
>> fixed effects (I read I could use the -xtlogit- or -clogit- command).
>>
>> y_it = b_1*x_1_it*x_2_it+b_2*x_1_it + b_3*x_2_it
>>
>> However, I have included an interaction effect which I want to
>> interpret correctly - as pointed out by Ai and Norton (2004) this is
>> not trivial. They suggest to use a user written command called
>> -inteff-. This command works well if -logit- is used, however, it does
>> not work if -xtlogit- or -clogit- is used.
>
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> You have a double problem here: a) interpreting marginal effects of
> interaction terms is hard, and b) interpreting marginal effects in
> multi-level/panel/fixed effects models is hard. So the combination of
> the two means that that is going to be very hard.
>
> However, the solution is simple: don't do marginal effects but
> interpret your coefficients in the natural metric of the model. In
> this case the odds of success. Odds, odds ratios and ratios of odds
> ratios have an undeserved reputation of being hard to interpret. You
> can see an example of how easy that is here in:
>
> M.L. Buis (2010) "Stata tip 87: Interpretation of interactions in
> non-linear models", The Stata Journal, 10(2), pp. 305-308.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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