Estimation of Models with Beta-Distributed Dependent Variables: A Replication and Extension of Paolino's Study

This note replicates and extends Paolino's discussion (2001,Political Analysis 9:325–346) on the estimation of modelswith beta-distributed dependent variables in two ways. First,it introduces an easy-to-use program for estimating the modelusing Stata. Second, it presents a Bayesian estimator for betavariables based on Paolino's model. Results are compared tothose in the original article.