Why Use Instrumental Variables? e Instrumental Variables(IV)estimation is used when your model has endogenous xs That is, whenever Cov(x,l)≠0 Thus. i can be used to address the problem of omitted variable bias 2 Additionally iv can be used to solve the classic errors-in-variables problem Economics 20- Prof anderson
Binary dependent variables Recall the linear probability model, which can be written as P(=1x)=Bo+xB a drawback to the linear probability model is that predicted values are not constrained to be between 0 and An alternative is to model the proba、,s a function, G(Bo+xB), where 0
Choosing a Topic Start with a general area or set of questions Make sure you are interested in the topic Use on-line services such as EconLit to investigate past work on this topic Narrow down your topic to a specific question or issue to be investigated Work through the theoretical issue Economics 20-Prof. Anderson
