A Detailed Decomposition for Limited Dependent Variable Models

Jörg Schwiebert

Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a detailed decomposition method for limited dependent variable models. That means, we propose a method to decompose the differential in the (limited dependent) outcome variable between two groups into the contributions of the explanatory variables. We provide a theoretical derivation of the detailed decomposition and show how this decomposition can be estimated consistently. In contrast to decomposition approaches already presented in the literature, our method leads to a unique decomposition and accounts for the nonlinearity of the underlying econometric model in a rather intuitive way. Our results can be applied to the most common limited dependent variable models such as probit, logit and tobit models.

Keywords: Decomposition methods; detailed decomposition; explained di erential; limited dependent variable models; probit; logit; tobit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C40 J31 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-10
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