Identification of Binary Response Models
Identification of Binary Response Models
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DOI:
10.1080/01621459.1988.10478655
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发表时间:
1988-09
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
C. Manski
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作者:
C. Manski
Abstract This article studies identification of the threshold-crossing model of binary response. Most research on binary response has considered specific estimators and tests. The study of identification exposes the foundations of binary response analysis by making explicit the assumptions needed to justify different methods. It also clarifies the connections between reduced-form and structural analyses of binary response data. Assume that the binary outcome z is determined by an observable random vector x and by an unobservable scalar u through a model z = 1[xβ + u ≤ 0]. Also assume that Fu|x , the probability distribution of u conditional on x, is continuous and strictly increasing. Given these maintained assumptions, we investigate the identifiability of β given the following restrictions on the distributions (Fu|x, x ∈ X): mean independence, quantile independence, index sufficiency, statistical independence, and statistical independence with the distribution known. We find that mean independence has n...