--- Carlos Gamero <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are estimating a logit model of childs' job satisfaction in a
> developing country. We want to correct for selection bias in such
> model, taking into account child' labor participation. As working and
> schooling decissions are correlated, we estimate a bivariate probit
> model as previous model. How can we integrate bivariate probit model
> in a correction of sample selection bias framework. How we can
> extract Mill's Ratio from that. Can we use Stata for that purpose?
Since you are using logit for childs' job satisfaction I am assuming
that job satisfaction is dichotomous (happy, not happy). In which case
you can use -heckprob-, which is a probit model with sample selection.
See -help heckprob-.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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