On Monday, Pallab Mozumder wrote:
> I am running a simple random effect logit model with 3 independent variable
> [2 of them are dummy variables (with 0 and 1) and the other one is
> continuous variable]. When I try to compute the marginal effets at the mean
> level (with "mfx compute"), i get the same value of (dy/dx), st. error and
> significance level as I got for the coefficients of the original random
> effect model. It looks a little odd to me.
This is happening because when you do not use the -predict- option with
-mfx- it uses the default prediction of the predceding estimation
command. In the case of -xtlogit, re- this is xb, the linear predictor.
The marginal effects of that prediction function are, as Pallab pointed
out, the coefficients, because the derivative of xb with respect
to xb is b:
clear
webuse union
drop if _n>5000
xtlogit union age grade ,i(id) nolog re
mfx compute, predict(xb)
You may want to try the prediction option pu0, as follows:
clear
webuse union
drop if _n>5000
xtlogit union age grade ,i(id) nolog re
mfx compute, predict(pu0)
-- May
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