Marra, G. and Radice, Rosalba (2011) Estimation of a semiparametric recursive bivariate probit model in the presence of endogeneity. Canadian Journal of Statistics 39 (2), pp. 259-279. ISSN 0319-5724.
Abstract
The classic recursive bivariate probit model is of particular interest to researchers since it allows for the estimation of the treatment effect that a binary endogenous variable has on a binary outcome in the presence of unobservables. In this article, the authors consider the semiparametric version of this model and introduce a model fitting procedure which permits to estimate reliably the parameters of a system of two binary outcomes with a binary endogenous regressor and smooth functions of continuous covariates. They illustrate the empirical validity of the proposal through an extensive simulation study. The approach is applied to data from a survey, conducted in Botswana, on the impact of education on women's fertility. Some studies suggest that the estimated effect could have been biased by the possible endogeneity arising because unobservable confounders (e.g., ability and motivation) are associated with both fertility and education.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Average treatment effect, binary data, identification by functional form, penalized regression spline, recursive bivariate probit model, simultaneous equation estimation, Primary 62G08, secondary 65D10 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Rosalba Radice |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2013 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6871 |
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