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Re: st: ivpois with a binary endogenous predictor
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: ivpois with a binary endogenous predictor
Date
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:00:54 -0400
Dimitriy V. Masterov <[email protected]>:
No need to do anything different, though you can potentially improve
efficiency by running a logit of x on z first, predict p, then use p
as your excluded instrument. Instead of -ivpois-, you may prefer
-gmm-, assuming you are using Stata >10.
See also e.g.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-07/msg01256.html
on comparing your -gmm- estimates to others.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to estimate the effect of an endogenous binary variable
> (x) on expenditure and/or transactions (y), which have a fair amount
> of zeros (~12%) and a long right tail. I have a continuous instrument
> (z). I was hoping to use the Austin Nichols' -ivpois- command to do
> this.
>
> Are there any econometric issues with the first stage being very
> different beast from the outcome equation?
>
> How does this issue interact with doing the diagnostics by hand, like
> the Hausman endogeniety test using the residuals?
>
> Are there better ways to tackle this problem?
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