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Re: st: Difference-in-differences analysis with binary data (repeated cross-sectional data)
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Difference-in-differences analysis with binary data (repeated cross-sectional data)
Date
Sun, 27 May 2012 18:41:06 +0200
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Armen Martirosyan wrote:
> Thank you very much for your support. Regarding interpretation of results
> - how results should be interpreted if i get coefficient as a result of
> linear regression since for outcome binary data i am interested in
> proportions.
The mean of a binary variable (coded 0, 1) is the proportion of 1s, so
you don't need to anything special after a linear probability model to
get the interpretation in terms of differences in
probabilities/proportions. This is the whole point of using linear
probability models.
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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