[Limdep Nlogit List] Bivariate Probit Selection for a Tobit model

William Greene wgreene at stern.nyu.edu
Fri Aug 31 10:27:02 EST 2007


Diana.  I don't think instrumental variables is the right answer
either.  I'm not sure what the instruments would be, and, moreover,
since you are not using least squares, the IV method really doesn't
fit.  Two things strike me, but so far as I know, they are not worked
out in the literature. (1) If you use the predicted probabilities
from two individual probits - they need not be fit jointly as a BVP
model - in place of the actual H and W, you get a model that now has
u+B2(H-PH)+B3(W-PW) as the disturbance.  MLE ***might*** be consistent.
If so, then a correction in the spirit of Murphy and Topel might be
the answer for the standard errors.  I'm not ready to plant my feet 
in concrete on this one, but it's a thought. (2) There might be a GMM
estimator available based on the conditional mean function in the 
tobit model given the two dummy variables.  If so, it would once again
involve the predicted probabilities in the probit model. 
   I emphasize, once again, these are speculations.  I have not actually
worked out a solution to this problem.  Maybe one of the other people
reading this list server has also worked on this problem, or has seen
something in the literature.  (Maybe there's a "Bayesian" MCMC answer
out there also.)
  Regards,
  Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Fletschner" <fletschn at u.washington.edu>
To: "Limdep and Nlogit Mailing List" <limdep at limdep.itls.usyd.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:05:17 PM (GMT-0500) America/Bogota
Subject: Re: [Limdep Nlogit List] Bivariate Probit Selection for a Tobit model


Thank you, Bill. No wonder I couldn't find this anywhere. Do you have a 
suggestion on an alternative model to fit for a problem in which I would 
like to estimate:

y = b0 + b1 X  + b2H + b3W + u  where y has an upper limit of 1 (about 30% 
of the sample is there) and

H = 1 if husband participated in the program and 0 otherwise
W=1 if wife participated in the program and 0 otherwise.

As you can guess, I am interested in b2 and b3.

A possibility is to use instrumental variables but I haven't found how to 
adjust the covariance matrix given that I am instrumenting two variables.

Diana


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Greene" <wgreene at stern.nyu.edu>
To: "Limdep and Nlogit Mailing List" <limdep at limdep.itls.usyd.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Limdep Nlogit List] Bivariate Probit Selection for a Tobit 
model


> Diana.  The bivariate probit selectiion model is only supported
> for the linear model, not the tobit model.  Note, the linear
> model is estimated using two step least squares.  The tobit model
> would have to be fit using ML, for a trivariate normal based log
> likelihood.  I have never seen it derived.
> /Bill Greene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diana Fletschner" <fletschn at u.washington.edu>
> To: "Limdep and Nlogit Mailing List" <limdep at limdep.itls.usyd.edu.au>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:57:34 PM (GMT-0500) America/Bogota
> Subject: [Limdep Nlogit List] Bivariate Probit Selection for a Tobit model
>
>
> Hello--
>
> I am trying to estimate a Tobit model with a Bivariate Probit selection 
> but cannot get the results I am interested in. This is what I have:
>
> Bivariate Probit;
>    Lhs = p1, p2;
>    rhs = x1;
>    rh2 = x2;
>    wts = ...;
>    hold for SELECT$
>
> Select;
>    Lhs = y;
>    Rhs = x3, p1, p2;
>    wts = ...;
>    all;
>    tobit$
>
> The output I get is only for the Bivariate Probit and the 2sls of the 
> second regression. I do not obtain the Tobit (corrected) results. Is there 
> a way to obtain these results? I would like to use the entire sample for 
> the Tobit to be able to say something about the parameters associated with 
> p1 and p2.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> Diana
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