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st: economic interpretation mfx!!
From
"Augusto Pallavicini" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: economic interpretation mfx!!
Date
Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:53:36 +0100
Hi all, I need help with the interpretation of the output of the marginal
effects after tobit... I know this is conditional...
here is what I think...
One more level of education increases the expected amount willing to pay by
61.2% and one more level of income by 29.2%, ceteris paribus. Then, having a
positive opinion about wind energy (dummy opinion2) raises the expected
amount willing to pay by 208.7% whereas being concern about the environment
(dummy statement2) does it by 148.2%, ceteris paribus
Are these conclusions correct? Do I need to do something else with the
dummies to find out the mg effect (because I think it's wrong)?
Thanks in advance
Below is the output
mfx compute, predict(e(0,.))
Marginal effects after tobit
y = E(pay|pay>0) (predict, e(0,.))
= 4.332974
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
variable | dy/dx Std. Err. z P>|z| [
95% C.I. ] X
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
educat~n | .612348 .33726 1.82 0.069 -.048671 1.27337
2.84058
income | .2918185 .17118 1.70 0.088 -.043688 .627325
3.50725
gender*| -.1665404 .63723 -0.26 0.794 -1.4155 1.08242
.521739
age | -.0552524 .40434 -0.14 0.891 -.847737 .737232
3.52174
coastal*| -.8215083 .63314 -1.30 0.194 -2.06245 .419432
.623188
bill | .0053813 .01494 0.36 0.719 -.023894 .034657
55.0435
children*| .5257885 .83808 0.63 0.530 -1.11681 2.16839
.623188
opinio~2*| 2.087348 .6481 3.22 0.001 .817098 3.3576
.869565
statem~2*| 1.481657 .62187 2.38 0.017 .262813 2.7005
.797101
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) dy/dx is for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1
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