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Re: st: treatreg vs ivreg revisited
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: treatreg vs ivreg revisited
Date
Wed, 15 May 2013 07:37:58 -0400
Andrea Menclova <[email protected]>:
You should never "rely on the inverse Mills ratio for addressing
endogeneity/selection" though if you have excluded instruments,
-treatreg- can get
estimates with lower variance if the maintained assumptions are
correct. If any of the extra assumptions required by -treatreg- fail,
your estimates can have substantially higher mean squared error with
-treatreg- relative to IV.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Andrea Menclova
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist community,
>
> I have a “treatment” model with individual-level data (and a large number of
> observations) where the dependent variable is “birth weight” and the
> treatment variable is “delivery by a midwife” (versus delivery by an
> obstetrician). Having read several previous posts on this listserv (with
> helpful responses from Mark Schaffer – thanks!), I still can’t decide
> whether to use treatreg or ivreg to estimate the effect of midwife delivery
> on infant health. So far, all comments I’ve received from colleagues and
> readers of my manuscript were focused on the strength/validity of my
> instruments but only recently someone suggested I could use treatreg and
> rely on the inverse Mills ratio for addressing endogeneity/selection. Could
> someone please give me advice about which is preferable?
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