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Hi,

By reading Green’s chapter dealing with discrete dependent variables, decided to replicate some of the results presented. Hence, I worked with the work-file used by Spector and Mazzeo (1980) (this work-file is extensively used in the manual of E-views) to estimate the standard specification (Probit Model):

GRADE c GPA TUCE PSI. (Grade is the dependent binary variable)

By following the directions provided within the manual it was quite straightforward to estimate the marginal effects and to test for heteroscedasticity.

At the moment I am interested in the estimation of the standard errors associated to the marginal effects by the use of the Delta method as described in Green’s Book (p. 824, ed. 4th). How is it possible to apply the method empirically? Please advise me!

Thanks in advance.

For those who might be interested in estimating standard errors for the associated marginal effects take a look at the two following papers!

Anderson, S. and Newell, R. (2003). Simplified marginal effects in discrete choice models. Economics Letters, 81. 321-326.
Carlevaro, F. and Senegas, M. (2006). Simplified marginal effects in discrete choice models: A correction. Economics Letters, 92. 44-46.

Anderson and Newell (2003) have shown that after a simple normalization applied to all the independent variables the computation of the standard errors simplifies dramatically!