st: QUAIDS

[nigussie Tefera <nitefera@yahoo.com>]

Dear stata list users,

I am trying to modify Poi's (2008) nlsurqaids.ado incorporte household demographics and village/regional dummies in the system as well as to include commulative distribution function (CDF) and probability distribution (CDF) so as to take into account bias due to zero consumtion expenditure (observed zero consumption expenditure). But I do not seem to be able to create a function evaluator program. I suppose I am missing something obvious…

Here is the program :

program nlsurquaidsNNP
 version 12.1
 
 syntax varlist(min=16 max=16) if, at(name)
 
 tokenize `varlist'
 args w1 w2 w3 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 lnp4 lnm x1 x2 pdf1 pdf2 pdf3 cdf1 cdf2 cdf3
 
 // With four goods, there are 15 parameters that can be 
 // estimated, after eliminating one of the goods and 
 // imposing adding up, symmetry, and homogeneity
 // constraints, in the QUAIDS model
 // Here, we extract those parameters from the `at'
 // vector, and impose constraints as we go along
 tempname a1 a2 a3 a4
 scalar `a1' = `at'[1,1] 
 scalar `a2' = `at'[1,2] 
 scalar `a3' = `at'[1,3] 
 scalar `a4' = 1 - `a1' - `a2' - `a3'
 
 tempname b1 b2 b3 b4
 scalar `b1' = `at'[1,4]
 scalar `b2' = `at'[1,5]
 scalar `b3' = `at'[1,6]
 scalar `b4' = -`b1' - `b2' - `b3'
 tempname g11 g12 g13 g14
 tempname g21 g22 g23 g24
 tempname g31 g32 g33 g34
 tempname g41 g42 g43 g44
 scalar `g11' = `at'[1,7]
 scalar `g12' = `at'[1,8]
 scalar `g13' = `at'[1,9]
 scalar `g14' = -`g11' - `g12' - `g13'
 scalar `g21' = `g12'
 scalar `g22' = `at'[1,10]
 scalar `g23' = `at'[1,11]
 scalar `g24' = -`g21' - `g22' - `g23'
 scalar `g31' = `g13'
 scalar `g32' = `g23'
 scalar `g33' = `at'[1,12]
 scalar `g34' = -`g31' - `g32' - `g33'
 scalar `g41' = `g14'
 scalar `g42' = `g24'
 scalar `g43' = `g34'
 scalar `g44' = -`g41' - `g42' - `g43'
 
 tempname l1 l2 l3 l4
 scalar `l1' = `at'[1,13]
 scalar `l2' = `at'[1,14]
 scalar `l3' = `at'[1,15]
 scalar `l4' = -`l1' - `l2' - `l3'
 
 // constant and household demographics
 tempname r11 r12
 tempname r21 r22
 tempname r31 r32
 scalar `r11' = `at'[1,16]
 scalar `r12' = `at'[1,17]
 scalar `r21' = `at'[1,18]
 scalar `r22' = `at'[1,19]
 scalar `r31' = `at'[1,20]
 scalar `r32' = `at'[1,21]
 
 // pdf
 tempname d1 d2 d3
 scalar `d1' = `at'[1,22]
 scalar `d2' = `at'[1,23]
 scalar `d3' = `at'[1,24]
 
 // Okay, now that we have all the parameters, we can 
 // calculate the expenditure shares. 
 quietly {
  // First get the price index
  // I set a_0 = 5
  tempvar lnpindex
  gen double `lnpindex' = 5 + `a1'*`lnp1' + `a2'*`lnp2' ///
       + `a3'*`lnp3' + `a4'*`lnp4'
  forvalues i = 1/4 {
   forvalues j = 1/4 {
    replace `lnpindex' = `lnpindex' +  ///
     0.5*`g`i'`j''*`lnp`i''*`lnp`j''
   }
  }
  // The b(p) term in the QUAIDS model:
  tempvar bofp
  gen double `bofp' = 0
  forvalues i = 1/4 {
   replace `bofp' = `bofp' + `lnp`i''*`b`i''
  }
  replace `bofp' = exp(`bofp')
  // Finally, the expenditure shares for 3 of the 4
  // goods (the fourth is dropped to avoid singularity)
  replace `w1' = (`a1' + `g11'*`lnp1' + `g12'*`lnp2' + ///
          `g13'*`lnp3' + `g14'*`lnp4' + ///
          `b1'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex') + ///
          `l1'/`bofp'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex')^2 + ///
       `r11'*`x1' +`r12'*`x2')*`cdf1'+
       `d1'*`pdf1'
  
  replace `w2' = (`a2' + `g21'*`lnp1' + `g22'*`lnp2' + ///
          `g23'*`lnp3' + `g24'*`lnp4' + ///
          `b2'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex') + ///
          `l2'/`bofp'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex')^2 + ///
       `r21'*`x1' +`r22'*`x2')*`cdf2' +
       `d2'*`pdf2'
  replace `w3' = (`a3' + `g31'*`lnp1' + `g32'*`lnp2' + ///
          `g33'*`lnp3' + `g34'*`lnp4' + ///
          `b3'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex') + ///
          `l3'/`bofp'*(`lnm' - `lnpindex')^2 + ///
       `r31'*`x1' +`r32'*`x2')*`cdf3' +
             `d3'*`pdf3'          
 }
 
end
 
using food.dta data of Poi's (2008), I tried to run the programe but it came up with "nlsurquaidsNNP returned 198
verify that nlsurquaidsNNP is a function evaluator program"
 
I would apperciate any suggestion or help...
 
Nigussie

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