Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51633 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5826
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives assumption inherent in multinomial logit models is most frequently tested with a Hausman-McFadden test. As is confirmed by many findings in the literature, this test sometimes produces negative outcomes, in contradiction of its asymptotic x2 distribution. This problem is caused by the use of an improper variance matrix and may lead to an invalid statistical inference even when the test value is positive. With a correct specification of the variance, the sampling distribution for small samples is indeed close to a x2 distribution.
Subjects: 
multinomial logit
IIA assumption
Hausman-McFadden test
JEL: 
C12
C35
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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