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Explore expected values, marginal effects, and implications of heteroscedasticity in Tobit model estimation for Canadian household financial data. Develop likelihood functions for censored regression models leading to unbiased parameter estimates.
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AAE637 Topics for May 8, 2007 • Expected Values and Marginal Effects Under the Censored Regression Model • Development of the Likelihood Function for the Censored Regression Model • Application to Canadian HH FAFH • Implications of Heteroscedasticity under the Tobit model • Parameter Estimates Biased? • A Method for Accounting for Heteroscedasticity • Readings: Brown and Moffitt (1983), Gould, Saupe and Klemme (1989), Wang et al (1997)