[Limdep Nlogit List] Using Probit to Approximate Panel Fractional Response Model

Petrolia, Daniel d.petrolia at msstate.edu
Wed May 18 02:55:45 AEST 2016


Hi:  I would like to add year dummies to the panel fractional response model (NLOGIT command "fractional"), but this cannot work because the year dummies are time-varying and the model wants to add the population averages of these to the model, which results in a singular X matrix.  As an alternative, I manually created the group average variables for my time-varying variables, and estimated a probit model, including a constant and the group average variables, and specifying "; cluster = N" where N is the number of observations in each group.  The results are very similar to that given by the fractional command.

My question is if I am interpreting my findings correctly, i.e., that this is a legitimate alternative to fractional (i.e., is a legitimate way to estimate Papke & Wooldridge's (2008) model).

Below are the code and results I obtained.

Thanks,
Dan

|-> sample; all $
|-> CREATE ; crsmean = Group Mean (crs, Pds = 23) $
|-> CREATE ; edumean = Group Mean (edu, Pds = 23) $
|-> CREATE ; hhmean = Group Mean (hh1000, Pds = 23) $
|-> CREATE ; incmean = Group Mean (inc1000, Pds = 23) $
|-> CREATE ; pptmean = Group Mean (ppt, Pds = 23) $

|-> fractional
    ; Lhs=PIFRATE
    ;Rhs =
    MISS,COAST,CRS,EDU,HH1000,INC1000,
    SLP,PPT,ELEV,STRDN,
    AVZONES,BCZONES,
    ;Pds=23
    $

(starting values omitted)

Normal exit:  21 iterations. Status=0, F=    297.6328

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Fractional Response Model - Panel Data
Dependent variable              PIFRATE
Log likelihood function       297.63281
Estimation based on N =   6739, K =  18
Inf.Cr.AIC  =   -559.3 AIC/N =    -.083
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
        |                  Standard            Prob.      95% Confidence
PIFRATE|  Coefficient       Error       z    |z|>Z*         Interval
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
        |Time Invariant Variables in Conditional Mean........................
Constant|   -2.18313*       1.19857    -1.82  .0685    -4.53229    .16602
    MISS|     .03114         .11942      .26  .7943     -.20293    .26520
   COAST|     .32190         .23260     1.38  .1664     -.13398    .77778
     SLP|    -.07457**       .03515    -2.12  .0339     -.14345   -.00569
    ELEV|    -.00068         .00094     -.72  .4734     -.00253    .00117
   STRDN|    -.16654         .14083    -1.18  .2370     -.44256    .10949
AVZONES|    1.31919***      .22331     5.91  .0000      .88151   1.75686
BCZONES|    -.49804***      .17758    -2.80  .0050     -.84609   -.14998
        |Time Varying Variables in Conditional Mean..........................
     CRS|     .31734***      .10665     2.98  .0029      .10830    .52638
     EDU|    -.00573         .00451    -1.27  .2042     -.01456    .00311
  HH1000|    -.01686***      .00511    -3.30  .0010     -.02688   -.00685
INC1000|     .00488**       .00221     2.21  .0274      .00054    .00921
     PPT|-.62915D-04***   .1480D-04    -4.25  .0000 -.91926D-04  -.33904D-04
        |Group Means of Time Varying Variables...............................
     CRS|     .07390         .18779      .39  .6939     -.29415    .44196
     EDU|     .00906         .00653     1.39  .1651     -.00373    .02186
  HH1000|     .01368**       .00635     2.15  .0312      .00123    .02613
INC1000|     .00542         .00514     1.06  .2909     -.00464    .01549
     PPT|     .00032         .00088      .36  .7156     -.00140    .00204
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
nnnnn.D-xx or D+xx => multiply by 10 to -xx or +xx.
***, **, * ==>  Significance at 1%, 5%, 10% level.
Model was estimated on May 17, 2016 at 11:50:45 AM
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|-> probit
    ; Lhs=PIFRATE
    ;Rhs =
    one,MISS,COAST,CRS,EDU,HH1000,INC1000,
    SLP,PPT,ELeV,STRDN,
    AVZONES,BCZONES,
    crsmean,edumean,hhmean,incmean,pptmean
    ; cluster = 23
    $
Normal exit:   7 iterations. Status=0, F=    1092.854
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Covariance matrix for the model is adjusted for data clustering.    |
| Sample of   6739 observations contained    293 clusters defined by  |
|     23 observations (fixed number) in each cluster.                 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Probit Model for Fractional Data
Dependent variable              PIFRATE
Log likelihood function     -1092.85352
Restricted log likelihood   -1415.83949
Chi squared [ 17](P= .000)    645.97194
Significance level               .00000
McFadden Pseudo R-squared      .2281233
Estimation based on N =   6739, K =  18
Inf.Cr.AIC  =   2221.7 AIC/N =     .330
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
        |                  Standard            Prob.      95% Confidence
PIFRATE|  Coefficient       Error       z    |z|>Z*         Interval
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
        |Index function for probability......................................
Constant|   -2.17156*       1.18004    -1.84  .0657    -4.48438    .14127
    MISS|     .02969         .11862      .25  .8024     -.20280    .26217
   COAST|     .32345         .23429     1.38  .1674     -.13574    .78265
     CRS|     .31306***      .10597     2.95  .0031      .10537    .52074
     EDU|    -.00572         .00434    -1.32  .1875     -.01422    .00279
  HH1000|    -.01645***      .00496    -3.32  .0009     -.02617   -.00674
INC1000|     .00479**       .00220     2.18  .0296      .00047    .00910
     SLP|    -.07395**       .03473    -2.13  .0332     -.14202   -.00588
     PPT|-.64055D-04***   .1463D-04    -4.38  .0000 -.92720D-04  -.35390D-04
    ELEV|    -.00066         .00094     -.70  .4818     -.00251    .00119
   STRDN|    -.16587         .13906    -1.19  .2330     -.43843    .10668
AVZONES|    1.32265***      .22223     5.95  .0000      .88709   1.75820
BCZONES|    -.50058***      .17533    -2.86  .0043     -.84421   -.15695
CRSMEAN|     .08047         .18524      .43  .6640     -.28260    .44354
EDUMEAN|     .00910         .00637     1.43  .1526     -.00337    .02158
  HHMEAN|     .01359**       .00628     2.16  .0305      .00128    .02591
INCMEAN|     .00550         .00512     1.07  .2831     -.00454    .01553
PPTMEAN|     .00031         .00086      .36  .7181     -.00138    .00201
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
nnnnn.D-xx or D+xx => multiply by 10 to -xx or +xx.
***, **, * ==>  Significance at 1%, 5%, 10% level.
Model was estimated on May 17, 2016 at 11:50:45 AM
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