Regression Coefficient Identification Decay in the Presence of Infrequent Classification Errors

Brent Kreider ()

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Recent evidence from Bound et al. (2001) and Black et al. (2003) suggests that reporting errors in survey data routinely violate all of the classical measurement error assumptions. The econometrics literature has not considered the consequences of arbitrary measurement error for identification of regression coefficients. This paper highlights the severity of the identification problem given the presence of even infrequent arbitrary errors in a binary regressor. In the empirical component, health insurance misclassification rates of less than 1.3 percent generate double-digit percentage point ranges of uncertainty about the variable's true marginal effect on the use of health services.

Keywords: nonclassical measurement error; classification error; health insurance; corrupt sampling; binary regressor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06-11
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2010, vol. 92 no. 4, pp. 1017-1023

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