Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67262 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6887
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach, we use it to examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved heterogeneity would lead the researcher to underestimate the impact of migrant labor markets on reducing the probability of falling into poverty.
Subjects: 
dynamic binary response models
control function approach
migration
poverty-persistence
rural China
JEL: 
C13
C33
O15
P25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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