Regression Coefficient Identification Decay in The Presence of Infrequent Classification Errors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19319119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brent Kreider (Iowa State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1017-1023 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00044 |
| OpenAlex | W2076046695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Recent evidence from Bound, Brown, and Mathiowetz (2001) and Black, Sanders, and Taylor (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 fully 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% generate double-digit percentage point ranges of uncertainty about the variable's true marginal effect on the use of health services
Binary number · Econometrics · Identification (biology) · Observational error · Regression · Statistics · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Mathematics · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |