Hello again everyone! No reply yet on my question I posted yesterday,
I just need to know whether its because (i) There is a technical error
somewhere, and the question never reaches you? (ii) Nobody knows the
answer or (ii) the question is so "stupid" that nobody bothers to
answer. Anyway, I try again:
Hi!
I got a panel data set of some small scale farmers in developing
countries. Some sell volume X at individual price P, some don't sell
at all. The control variables vector Z for all farmers is available.
Heckmans method controls for self selection by (i) estimating a
probit for sell / no sell (ii) introducing the resulting Mills ratio
in the sales equation before running a normal OLS (on the households
that do sell their product).
I got information from two years, so I wonder whether there exist
some kind of Stata procedure to correct for estimated individual
effects (either fixed or random).
The Stata command "xtprobit" does exactly this for a isolated first
step, so
(1) How do I introduce xtprobit in the first stage of the Heckman in
order to correct for individual (unobserved) differences in choosing
to sell or not?
(2) How do I introduce individual differences the sales function
(second step) of the Heckman model (i.e. also individual unobserved
differences in sales volume for the farmers who do sell)?
Anyone out there who knows how to solve this? I would most appreciate
your help!
Henrik
Henrik Wiig
Department of Economics
University of Oslo
PO Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
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